Instructor: Chris Chamberlain

Named one of the 15 Best Food Tours in America, Walk Eat Nashville offers a roving culinary experience featuring the best of Nashville's food scene. The tour will be led by CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN '85, a long-time food writer for the Nashville Scene, Style Blueprint and many other local and regional media outlets. He will take you to some of his favorite dining spots downtown and introduce you to the food and the people behind the plates.Bring an appetite for Nashville food and culture! You’ll savor a variety of dishes and interact with chefs and managers at Nashville’s top restaurants. Between tastings, you'll learn unexpected details about local landmarks while gaining insight into Nashville as a food lovers destination. This delicious experience includes five tasting locations over two hours (plenty of food for lunch) and a 1+ mile guided tour by an industry expert.

Class Fee: $35.00

Materials Fee: $70.00

Age 21 and up.

Chris Chamberlain

A food, drink and travel writer, Chris Chamberlain has lived in Nashville his entire life, except for four years in California where he studied liberal arts at Stanford University and learned how to manipulate chopsticks.

He is a regular writer for the Nashville Scene and its “Bites” food blog, as well as Nashville Lifestyles magazine. Chris is the Southern correspondent for FoodRepublic.com and often writes travel pieces for Thrillist and GetawaysForGrownups.com, while serving as a local editor for Google, Zagat, Conde Nast Traveler and The Local Palate. Several national television shows have sought his expert opinions, including Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Eat Street, Unique Eats and Best in Chow. And, Chris has judged more culinary and cocktail competitions than he can remember.

His travel guide and cookbook, The Southern Foodie: 100 Places to Eat before You Die and The Recipes That Made Them Famous was released in 2012 by Thomas Nelson Publishing. The sequel The Southern Foodie’s Guide to the Pig was released in 2014, the same year History Press published his book “Nashville Beer: A Heady History of Music City Brewing.”

Despite the fact that his doctor follows him on Twitter and occasionally offers unsolicited advice about his lifestyle choices, Chris has been known to drive more than three hours for a barbecue sandwich. Smoked meat is a passion—to travel for, to cook at home and to judge as a professional KCBS-certified judge.