1856 - Culinary Residence

RESERVATIONS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! VISIT OUR WEBSITE! Some walk-ins can be accommodated. The country’s first tasting-menu-only teaching restaurant – a truly unique and elevated experience where education meets experiential dining. Each year, a nationally acclaimed chef will work alongside our Ithaka Hospitality Partners team as well as Auburn University’s culinary science faculty to create a unique restaurant concept, providing an ever-changing culinary experience for students as well as clientele in a beautiful, intimate environment, with vegetables, produce and herbs coming from an operational rooftop garden, created and managed by Auburn University’s Horticulture Program, looking out over our iconic Samford Hall.