{"id":8218,"date":"2025-04-28T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.southernsmoke.org\/?post_type=chef&#038;p=8218"},"modified":"2025-04-29T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:15:07","slug":"dean-neff","status":"publish","type":"chef","link":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_hk\/chef\/dean-neff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Neff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dean Neff<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the owner and chef of Seabird \u2013 the sustainable seafood restaurant and oyster bar devoted to celebrating North Carolina\u2019s coast, as well as the new owner of Wilmington\u2019s oldest seafood market \u2013 Zora\u2019s Market &amp; Kitchen.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A James Beard Foundation \u201cOutstanding Chef\u201d Finalist and \u201cBest Chef Southeast\u201d nominee, Neff opened Seabird in Spring 2021 as his first solo venture with wife Lydia Clopton; in 2024, he took the reins at Zora\u2019s Market &amp; Kitchen. At Seabird, Neff offers \u201cSeabirdie\u201d oysters farmed by Holdfast Oyster Co. exclusively for Seabird, and changes the menu daily based on back door deliveries from coastal fishers, farmers and foragers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u98df\u5ba2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> calls it \u201cEssential\u201d and named it the \u201cBeach Restaurant of the Year.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reader\u2019s Digest, Hemispheres, The Local Palate<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u548c <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garden &amp; Gun<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> praise it as one of THE reasons to visit Wilmington today; the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u548c <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BuzzFeed\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cWorth It\u201d have celebrated Seabird\u2019s locally focused seafood tower and overall commitment to sustainable seafood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neff is an outspoken champion of North Carolina\u2019s Oyster Trail, a regional council member for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC, and serves on the North Carolina Fish Consumption Advisory at Duke University.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":8266,"template":"","class_list":["post-8218","chef","type-chef","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chef\/8218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chef"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chef"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsmoke.org\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}