Asheville’s Katie Button of Curate restaurant included in NYT blog

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Chef Katie Button, who recently opened Curate restaurant in downtown Asheville, continues to garner lots of attention for her work. Mountain Xpress has an excellent cover story about Button this week. She’s featured in this month’s Verve magazine. And Button was included in a piece for the New York Times blog called Diner’s Journal.

The newspaper published a piece about the impact of world-famous chef Ferran Adria and his restaurant, El Bulli, which is closing. Button studied under Adria. Here’s some of what Button said about that legacy:

What I learned most from my time there was organization and a way of running a kitchen. It takes 70 people to serve one meal, and with the right systems, the restaurant runs as smoothly a ballet. The systems remove the chances of making a mistake. That is now my goal for my restaurant.