Chef Blake Hartwick, formerly the Executive Chef at Bonterra Dining & Wine Room, Las Ramblas Cafe, and The Lodge, is now Executive Chef at Blairs American Bistro & Wine Bar, 1600 Montford Drive, 704-525-8282.
Chef Cory Sharpe is now Executive Chef at Bonterra Dining & Wine Room, 1829 Cleveland Ave.. Sharpe had been the Sous Chef there since 2002. Marcelino Santos has been promoted to Executive Chef at Las Ramblas, 2400 Park Road, where he had been the Sous since the 2006 opening. Joe Leischner is now Chef at The Lodge, 7725 Colony Road. Leischner had been a cook at Bonterra.