Nuit Belge brings together tastes of Belgian beer and Atlanta food

Chicken Liver Mousse With Belgian Waffle and Cranberry Gastrique. Credit: Chris Hall/Local Three.

Beer lover Matt Leff launched the inaugural Nuit Belge tasting evening in Nashville last year, featuring Belgian beers paired with dishes created by some of city's top chefs and restaurants, plus Blackberry Farm restaurant and brewery from east Tennessee.

This year, Leff and his Nashville-based Rhizome Productions event company are taking the show on the road, with stops in Atlanta on Jan. 23, and New Orleans, Nashville and Charleston in the following months.

In anticipation of the tasting, we asked two Atlanta chefs, Chris Hall of Local Three and Josh Hopkins of Empire State South, to share the recipes for their Nuit Belge dishes with us. They had plenty of ideas about beer and food pairings, too.

You can buy tickets to the Nuit Belge event here, and as a bonus, use code “AJC” for special promotional pricing.