Ash & Olive Brings Flame-To-Table Cuisine to Ashland


Ash & Olive owner Gregg Brooks is serious about his Ashland restaurant’s commitment to “flame-to-table” cuisine. “Everything with the exception of french fries is cooked under a flame at 625°F in our stone oven,” says Brooks, who’s also a drummer with the yacht rock band Three Sheets to the Wind and who previously worked at Belle Isle Moonshine and Comfort. Brooks calls the menu “Euro-American,” an eclectic blend of French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish cuisines. “It’s heavily influenced by the foods that my wife and I love to cook and experience,” he says. Open since fall 2024 along the railroad tracks in downtown Ashland, Brooks says the restaurant’s greatest hits so far include a whipped feta appetizer, specialty pizzas, and steak and hummus plate. Ash-Olive.com


This article originally appeared in the Best of Virginia 2025 issue.

Erica Jackson Curran
Erica Jackson Curran grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and now splits her time between Richmond and Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore. When she’s not writing or renovating houses, she’s wrangling her son, Oliver.
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