Harvest/Dirt Dinner
2024 dirt dinners coming soon in July!
Harvest Celebration “Dirt Dinners” Return to Bramble
A few years after our first restaurant, Black Cat Bistro, opened in 2006 we started holding “Dirt Dinners,” where we celebrated individual ingredients across several courses. The events were hits, but we ended up turning our attention to other projects, as we expanded the farm, opened another restaurant and then focused on our farm dinners; we had not held one in years. But in 2023, we brought them back!
The 2024 Dirt Dinner series will be held as special events and dates throughout the growing season at Bramble & Hare. Look for these evening “Experiences” on our Open Table reservations and announced via our newsletter.
Each menu will focus on a vegetable at it’s peak of flavor and freshness. For example, in July we’ll celebrate the arrival of squash blossoms and beautiful summer squash. Later in August we’ll likely savor a menu of perfect tomatoes when it is their time to shine. Late in fall, expect rich pumpkins and in winter, sweet parsnips.
For each Dirt Dinner, you will enjoy four courses, each of which treats the star vegetable as the night’s diva. While the evening is always an ensemble performance, the diva vegetable gets to swan into the spotlight and enchant us. We plan on offering guests a welcome apéritif, too, which also champions the diva. A carrot cocktail? You bet.
In addition, our fabulous sommelier plans on offering guests the option of ordering entire bottles that is paired with the meal. Guest order red or white — that’s it. The bottles arrive at the table wrapped in red burlap for red wines, and tan burlap for whites. Servers present guests with instructions about how to engage with blind wine tastings, and a grid that sommeliers use to figure out what they are drinking. Over the course of the dinner, guests can use the instructions and grid to have fun trying to learn more about the wine through taste and aroma, rather than just Googling. And they also will walk away with a better understanding about how wine and food pairings work. We cannot wait to share these dinners with our community — they will be loads of fun, complete with culinary excellence from the kitchen and gracious, savvy service. And of course, most of the food comes from our 425-acre organic farm. Join us!
Dirt Dinners cost $87, for four courses.
We welcome all dietary preferences. Adult beverages, tip and tax are separate.
Join us for blind wine tastings during our Harvest Celebration “Dirt Dinner” series.