Team Culture

Garden & Gun Magazine Spotlights a’Verde

Blistered Okra with Basil Sauce Chef Katsuji Tanabe dishes out traditional Mexican dishes with Japanese and North Carolina twists. “In Mexico, we don’t eat okra,” says Katsuji Tanabe, the Mexico City-raised chef of the recently opened a’Verde Cocina + Tequila Bar in Cary, North Carolina. “But we do have nopales—a cactus that’s very slimy and has always …

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Katsuji & A’Verde on Rachel Ray

Some might call it a “Celeb Food Swap”, but around the LM Family, we just say we’re “…Sharing Family Recipes”. LM’s own, Katsuji Tanabe, “Chopped” winner,  “Top Chef” competitor, and Executive Chef of A’Verde Cocina and Tequila Library, shared his next-level chicken enchiladas in a creamy tomatillo sauce on Rachel Ray! Katsuji, who was born in Mexico City to Mexican …

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Bringing Pop-Ups to the Community & Foot Traffic Back

The Pop-Up Shops at Martin Street is a partnership between StartUp at Wake Tech, LM Restaurants and the Downtown Raleigh Alliance. The program, which began in October, gives short-term leases to local retailers and entrepreneurs at 17 E. Martin St. Lenovo, a Chinese technology company with its U.S. headquarters in the Triangle, has been brought on as the program’s presenting sponsor. …

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