SOLD OUT: The Kitchen Table Dinner Series is Back! Don't miss Chef Brent Hale Sunday May 21st
SOLD OUT: The Kitchen Table Dinner Series is Back! Don't miss Chef Brent Hale Sunday May 21st
The highly coveted Kitchen Table Dinner Series is back for 2023!
Join us for a relaxing and fun night at the farm on Sunday, May 21st, presented by Signature Bank with featured Chef Brent Hale.
If you like BIG and BOLD flavors, this is the Kitchen Table Dinner for you!
Featured Chef - Chef Brent Hale’s love for cooking started at a young age. He became a dishwasher for his first boss, his mom and was in charge of loading and unloading the dishwasher after each meal. Being in the kitchen felt so natural to the young chef.As he grew so did his love of food and desire to make a name for himself. Brent attended culinary school in Arlington, Texas at a local community college. During this time, he began his first culinary business, “Dining By Design” a small catering company, and later moved to Northwest Arkansas in 2008.
Chef Hale founded Big Sexy Food in 2016 as a food truck in Fayetteville. He grew to 3 food trucks over the next 3 years and, through a series of wild events, opened the first Big Sexy Food restaurant in March 2020. Chef Hale’s menu features modern American cuisine such as “Chicken Fried Baby Back Ribs”, “Grandma's Fried Chicken”, and “Pork Pork and Pork" - a pork rind crusted pork loin chop with bourbon bacon béchamel, but let’s not forget his out of this world burgers. As it’s said at Big Sexy Food, “Life is too short for ugly food!"
He also competed and won in Guys Grocery Games on the Food Network, “Friend or Foe” episode, and was invited back for another competition not long after. Chef Hale has a passion for food and for people. You will experience this when dining at his restaurant or spending time around him. He brings the heat everywhere he goes! Grab your friends and get your tickets now. This Kitchen Table Dinner will be BIG!
About the Kitchen Table Dinner Series -- Born out of a desire to build a community around great food, Apple Seeds' Kitchen Table Dinner series is designed to recreate the feeling of gathering around a dear friend's table. These dinners aim to bridge the gap often felt between the chef and diners in a typical dining environment, thereby creating a deeper connection to the food on the plate. Through intentional procurement of local, seasonal ingredients, the transparent preparation of the meal, and storytelling by the chef, each plate is transformed from food into an unforgettable dining experience.
Event Details:
SUNDAY, May 21, 2023
6-7 PM
Cocktail hour: Enjoy watching meal preparations or mingle in the garden.
7-8:30 PM
Multi-course dinner: Your chef will create a fresh meal with elements from the garden. Enjoy the food, farm & company.
The dinner takes place in the Apple Seeds Teaching Kitchen on the Teaching Farm.
Seating for this event will be located outside. These dinners are rain or shine. All Kitchen Table Dinner series events are fundraisers with limited seating; we cannot offer refunds for tickets purchased.
Your participation in Apple Seeds' events supports our mission to inspire healthy living through garden-based education for students around Northwest Arkansas and beyond!
Seating is limited. Please keep in mind that these events sell out. We are unable to offer refunds for this fundraiser.
Please contact mary@appleseedsnwa.org if you have any dietary restrictions or a vegetarian request.
Please arrive at 6pm for cocktails. Dinner will be served at 7pm.
The dinner takes place in the Teaching Kitchen, located at the Apple Seeds Teaching Farm in Gulley Park, Fayetteville.
Parking is available in the Gulley Park parking lot off of Old Wire Road. From there it's a short walk north to the gates of the Apple Seeds Teaching Farm. For drop-offs only, the address is 2648 N. Old Wire Road. Please note that there is no parking available in the driveway.
The Kitchen Table benefits Apple Seeds’ programs.
Apple Seeds is an education nonprofit based in Fayetteville, AR. For more than 15 years, Apple Seeds has been serving Northwest Arkansas. In that time, the organization has made great strides, positively impacting healthy eating in our community—student surveys show improved attitudes toward healthy food and heightened knowledge of nutrition. Apple Seeds provides a variety of programs, including Farm Lab, Farm to Table cooking classes, Cooking in the Schools, Food Ambassador, summer camps and school garden workshops. For more information visit www.appleseedsnwa.org