{"id":15260,"date":"2016-12-07T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=15260"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:50:19","slug":"billings-petroleum-club-hires-lilacs-engebretson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/12\/billings-petroleum-club-hires-lilacs-engebretson\/","title":{"rendered":"Billings Petroleum Club hires Lilac&#8217;s Engebretson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15261\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-15261 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-5.27.15-PM-771x487.png\" alt=\"Kitchen\" width=\"771\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-5.27.15-PM.png 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-5.27.15-PM-336x212.png 336w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-5.27.15-PM-768x485.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Chef in Residence Jeremy Engebretson, left, with chef-in-training Clayton Kukes in the Petroleum Club\u2019s kitchen Wednesday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jeremy Engebretson is well on his way to becoming the busiest person in Billings.<\/p>\n<p>He opened Lilac, a popular Montana Avenue restaurant, five years ago, and just about a year ago <a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2015\/12\/owners-of-harper-madison-lilac-forming-partnership\/\">he announced<\/a> that he was partnering with Joanie Swords, owner of Harper &amp; Madison, a bakery and cafe, so they could share their talents to make improvements at both establishments.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Billings Petroleum Club announced that\u00a0Engebretson has become its &#8220;executive chef in residence.\u201d The Billings Gazette <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/business\/billings-petroleum-club-completes-major-renovation-atop-downtown-hotel\/article_484232ce-6609-5244-a263-54d41da87b09.html\">carried a story<\/a> 10 days ago saying that\u00a0the Petroleum Club had just finished a six-month, $513,000 renovation of its lounge and dining room\u00a0on the 22nd floor of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, formerly the Crowne Plaza hotel at North 27th Street and First Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p>A press release from the Petroleum Club pointed out that Engebretson was recently named one of the top 100\u00a0executive chefs in the United States. It also said he plans to continue his\u00a0executive\u00a0management of Lilac.<\/p>\n<p>The release continued: &#8220;Jeremy will deliver to members and the community at large a distinct menu selection: fine dining specials, seasonal menu changes and an exciting banquet selection. His team, including chef-in-training Clayton Kukes, will deliver the best menu for business meetings, fine dining and special occasions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Engebretson is well on his way to becoming the busiest person in Billings. He opened Lilac, a popular Montana Avenue restaurant, five years ago, and just about a year ago he announced that he was partnering with Joanie Swords, owner of Harper &amp; Madison, a bakery and cafe, so they could share their talents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5247,1564,2262,647,5246],"class_list":["post-15260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-clayton-kukes","tag-harper-madison","tag-jeremy-engebretson","tag-lilac","tag-petroleum-club","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}