Thursday, September 17, 2026
Serve It Up is the Tennessee Aquarium’s annual fundraising event, celebrating sustainable seafood. This event features a live cooking show with custom-curated seafood dishes prepared by our expert chefs.
Unable to join us for this year’s event? There are plenty of ways to get involved from home!
Bid on truly unique animal paintings, behind-the-scenes experiences, staycations and more during our online auction, which takes place September 15-22.
You can also support sustainable seafood in your own home by browsing and preparing some of our sustainable seafood recipes, custom created by past Serve It Up Chefs.
Proceeds from Serve It Up and the online auction support our nonprofit mission. For more ways on how to support the Tennessee Aquarium please visit our donate page.
Featured Chef: Tamie Cook
Cook has been an integral part of the Aquarium’s Serve It Up sustainable seafood program since it was launched in 2011, both producing and starring in this top-rated event each year.
Featured Chef: Sherri Castle
Sherri Castle is an award-winning professional food writer, recipe developer, cooking teacher and public speaker known for melding stories, humor and culinary expertise. She is also the host of The Key Ingredient, an Emmy-winning cooking show from PBS that airs and streams across the country.
2026 Serve It Up Supporters
First Horizon
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Starr Mathews Insurance
Patrick & Julie Stowe
TVA
AEED
Chattanooga Land Company
Franklin Architects
HHM CPAs
Matt & Phala Rasmussen
Merrill Lynch Private Wealth Management
Pinnacle Financial Partners
The Baldwin Group
Trudy Harper & Roger Knipp
Unum