Farm Dinners Poised To Return!
Happy Monday, friends.
We have big news to share. After three years of grueling physical and permitting work, Black Cat Farm Dinners are about to finally open again for business—for good!
For those of you who visited our farm dinner program during 2020 and early 2021, when the evening meals captivated the community during such a traumatic period, you will recognize much. But everything now is vastly improved. Welcome to Farm Dinners 2.0.
The glass-walled, private cabanas have been moved around on the property, and now have proper roofs as well as insulation. They’re as sturdy as anvils—fitting, as the property where you’ll dine served as the blacksmithing center for the many Scandinavian dairy farmers who settled the area in the 19th century. Each cabana enjoys its own real wood-burning stove. We think they’re kind of magic.
The property now has lovely bathrooms, too, in historic buildings near the cabanas. The old barn that served as a staging ground for food back during those miserable Covid years now contains a splendid commercial kitchen. Out back, just off the kitchen, now sits a wood-fired grill with a large rotisserie. You’d better believe we’ll be using that for dishes.
The setting—on the top of a hill overlooking some of our fields of vegetable cultivation, with stunning Continental Divide views—remains as dramatic.
Today, we are busy gearing up for our reopening with staff hiring and training as well as organizing the restaurant’s kitchen and dining spaces. Eric is busy, of course, in the new kitchen testing recipes and planning menus.
We anticipate opening reservations to the public on the week of November 12th, about a month from now. In the meantime, we are opening in October for private parties and groups of 8 or more. Please email us at [email protected] if you’d like to book a group table in October.
When we soon start taking reservations—you will literally be the first to know—our plan is to bring back the protocol we followed during Farm Dinners 1.0. We’ll open reservations every Monday morning for the following week’s reservations. Once the week’s reservations sell out, we won’t open reservations again until the following Monday.
Stay tuned! The next time you hear about Farm Dinners, we’ll have much more information, including the cost (it will be prix fixe), details about the adult beverage program, hours of operation and of course a key tidbit: Where you can go to make reservations.
We look forward to serving you this autumn—and for many years to come—at our family homestead.
Thank you all for your support!
