In early 2008, Sam and Alyce Ratchford purchased the two-year-old Vidalia from their friend and former co-worker. They quickly focused the menu around North Carolina products, fresh local produce, and expanded the wine list. Vidalia quickly outgrew its original 45 seat capacity prompting an expansion in the winter of 2015. When Vidalia reopened, the Ratchford’s had added seventy-five additional seats, a screened-in, covered porch, a full bar and a wall of wine. Their mission to source locally and provide high-end North Carolina cuisine in a casual, upscale space remains today.
Sam and Alyce love raising their sons and a slew of fur babies in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Community
Throughout the year we host a number of events to benefit our local high country neighbors and non-profits including:
F.A.R.M Cafe
S.N.I.P.S. Spay and Neuter Clinc
Watauga Humane Society
High Country Breast Cancer Foundation
Please check our events for wine dinners and special events supporting these causes that are near and dear to us!
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We also could not bring so many amazing North Carolina products to our guests without these fine folks:
Lett Us Produce
Sunshine Cove Farm
High Country Fungi
Earthworks Farm & Catering
Goodnight Brothers
Heritage Farms
Green Earth Microgreens
Carolina Classics
Grandfather Vineyard
Burial Brewing Co.
Hi Wire Brewing
Wiseacre Brewing
Booneshine Brewing Co.
Jones Von Drehle Winery