1856 - Culinary Residence

The country's first teaching restaurant with only a tasting menu - a truly unique and elevated experience where education meets experiential dining. Each year, a nationally acclaimed chef will collaborate with our Ithaka Hospitality Partners team and Auburn University's culinary science faculty to develop a unique restaurant concept, providing an ever-changing culinary experience for students and clients 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 I