
Our Team
Mauricio Huarcaya - chef
Bruce Smith - chef
David Walters - dishwasher
JR Mathis - line. cook
Blake Eason- line. cook
Stephanie O'Drisdoll - bartender
Regan DeSutter - bartender
Jade Thompson - server
Domenik Suchecki - host


Anastasia Worrell
Principal-Partner,
Manager
Originally from the eastern European country of Moldova, Anastasia Worrell left home at 17 for college in Belarus where she earned a bachelor of arts in marketing. After a year in England for business language, she picked up an MBA in entrepreneurship in Latvia. Her career, however, blossomed early in Belarus. She began to assist in the coordination of private events and quickly moved into full event organization. She also worked as an assistant professor in Belarus and later, Latvia, where she landed after grad school. In Latvia, Anastasia was a strategist in internet marketing and development, bringing companies “online”. While there, Anastasia met her husband, Ray, and together they chose to make Ray’s Wilmington home, their home together.
While Anastasia may have married into the restaurant business and continues to be the Marketing Director of Slice of Life, her Food Story reaches back to her days in Moldova. Moldova is perhaps best known for its wine but regionally it is souther and its cuisine is seasonal and agricultural. Moving to and traveling through more northern countries like Belarus, the local diets were richer, heavier, and included more meat. Attempts to fully embrace local diets did not last. Even after moving to America, ever one to fully experience every culture, Anastasia tried all American cuisine had to offer. After three months, however, she knew it wasn’t quite what her body needed. She cut back meat, eventually dropping it altogether. Within a year, she was pescatarian, and after the birth of her daughter, Cynthia, full vegetarian. Through further research and education, she decided to bring Cynthia a diet that made intentional choices surrounding health, the environment and animal welfare. Ray was, at times, a reluctant passenger on this journey but over time, has come to appreciate the health benefits and education he has picked up along the way.
When Laura brought The Green House concept to Anastasia, she knew that, not only was it a worthy endeavor, the time was right and Wilmington was ready.

Laura Tiblier
Principal-Partner
Raised in Warrenton, North Carolina, Laura Tiblier had a very Southern upbringing, spending the majority of her early childhood in a tree, grazing the day away on self-harvested apples, pears, peaches, blueberries, and figs from the fruit trees that graced her family’s pre-Civil War era home. Laura moved to Wilmington to begin her nursing career. Along the way, she met her husband, Hunter, and together they opened Ceviche’s in Wrightsville Beach. Laura's culinary adventures began much earlier than her foray into the industry and were born out of necessity when her daughter, Clara, developed severe food allergies to nuts and dairy. At the time, they lived in California and options were more plentiful than here on the East Coast.
Laura’s journey to veganism was a transition that happened over time with no definable moment but no less impactful to her life.
Over the years, there was a progression that encompassed issues surrounding animal farming, environmental sustainability, and health, with one thing after another gradually dropping from her diet to be replaced with plant-based choices, until one day, vegan living became her way. A “quiet activist”, Laura is leading by example and is responsible for the conceptualization of The Green House. It came to her all at once, while eating in a vegetarian restaurant. Twenty five years later, The Green House was born. It is Laura’s joy to share this culinary path and experience with our corner of the planet.

Michelle Lyon-Heatherly
Lead Horticulturist
Lead Horticulturist, Michelle Lyon-Heatherly comes by her love of green, growing things honestly. If green thumbs are a thing, she has two that she credits to her grandmother, who she spent her summers and after school hours with. Michelle tells of early memories as a toddler, following along behind a plow, picking up potatoes with her cousins, and so began a life long passion. Michelle’s admiration and respect for her grandmother is clear as she describes her as a homemaker/gardener/researcher, who, through trial and error and extensively detailed records, became a self-taught master gardener. This work ethic, love and knowledge was her legacy which Michelle carries on today. Professionally, Michelle has begun greenhouses and was a partner in a garden center where she taught classes on gardening. It was there she met her husband, an assistant head grower and landscape architect. Together, the worked projects, many of which Michelle designed.
Michelle’s involvement in The Green House was pure happenstance. Michelle’s daughter goes to the same school as Principal-Partner Anastasia Worrell’s daughter. The two struck up a conversation about Anastasia’s ideas for the restaurant greenhouse. As it turned out, Michelle’s knowledge and insight proved invaluable when it prevented something of a misstep with regard to the greenhouse plans for the restaurant. It was not long before she was asked to take on the project. At the time, Covid had all but made the world stop, so Michelle was happy to get involved. Following in the footsteps of her continuously learning grandmother, Michelle has embraced an entirely new and cutting edge aeroponic technology, which she is bringing to The Green House and the Wilmington community at large.
Listening to her describe the benefits, increased nutrients, and sustainability of this type of growing, one cannot help but share in the excitement.
Michelle shares Anastasia and Laura’s vision that the contributions of aeroponics go way beyond healthy eating to the environment and global community at large. The Green House can only flourish under this kind of passionate and expert care.

Employment Opportunities
The Green House is now hiring fine dining staff for back of house positions. The Green House is more than a restaurant. It is a growth mindset oriented community that revolves around the ideas of sustainability, inclusivity and uncompromisable standards. We respect, appreciate and embrace our difference while also experiencing new paths together towards a culture of likeminded learners who, in turn, will lead by example and educate others. From back of house to front, team members will have the opportunity to cross train and collaborate.
If you have ever wanted to a part of a restaurant beyond a single position, The Green House is delivering that very opportunity by virtue of its chosen culture.
Team members that bring exceptional customer service, initiative, professionalism, and a willingness to learn will find a wealth of opportunity within the restaurant.