Mon 6/2 @ 5:30PM
So what are you doing on a Monday night in early June?
How about savoring some of the best locally grown and produced food, while helping to further the cause of the northeast Ohio food movement?
The Farm to Table benefit at the Cleveland Botanical Garden celebrates and benefits two of the organizations that have helped jumpstart the local food movement in northeast Ohio: the North Union Farmers Markets and the Botanical Garden’s own Green Corps, which teaches teenagers about growing and managing market gardens.
The 16th annual version of this event will feature 20 top area chefs and restaurateurs demonstrating what can be done with the sort of local, sustainably grown and raised foods the North Union Markets — now numbering seven — offer customers. The participants are a diverse lot — from Mitchell’s ice cream to Melissa Khoury’s new artisan meats business Saucisson, to Doug Katz’s flagship fire food and drink, to Ben Bebenroth’s Spice Kitchen + Bar which is blazing new trails in “grow your own” with its greenhouse next to its parking lot and its rooftop vegetable garden.
Before you eat, however, there’ll be a panel discussion about Ohio beers, wine and whiskeys. It will feature Tony Debevec Jr. of the Debonne Vineyard and Cellar Rats Brewery; Joel Sandry, also of Cellar Rats Brewery; and Gene Sigel of Red Eagle Distillery. That’s at 5:30 pm. At 6:30 you can dig in, eating outdoors (weather permitting) on the Geis Terrace.
Tickets are $85 for CBG members, $100 for non-members, which includes an open wine bar. But order now – the event sells out.
Cleveland, OH 44106