Every season we hit the ground running (with tables and chairs) and 2009 is no exception. We have now completed our first 11 dinners!! Riding on a rare lucky streak our generally unreliable 1953 bus Outstanding has made it to 11 out of the first 12 sites! We've seen hot days, cold days and everything in between (no rain though...). Orchard dinners, ranch dinners, vineyard dinners, hill top dinners, valley bottom dinners, cliff top dinners dinners close to the freeway dinners in the middle of nowhere, even dinners where diners were hit by waves...we've seen a lot.
Here are some photo highlights of a memorable early season:
May 23 & 24 - Devil's Gulch Ranch, Nicasio, CA
Devils Gulch Ranch Bus Parking
Outstanding in the Field dinner host Katy Oursler
bundles up for a chilly day with warm mittens
Guest Chef Steffan Terje of Perbacco restaurant, San Francisco, California
a warm and wonderful personality on a chilly day
a warm and wonderful personality on a chilly day
Our long table in farmer Mark Pasternak's Marin County Pinot Noir vineyard
June 6 - McEvoy Ranch, Petlauma, CA
One of our longest tables ever - McEvoy Ranch
Nion McEvoy starts off the farm tour
McEvoy Vista
June 13, 14 - Secret Sea Cove Dinner, California Coast
The legendary Sea Cove Dinner site
The table is ready for guests
The table is ready for guests
Here comes the surf...
Fisherman Hans Haveman pitches in to protect the table from rising surf
Guest Chef Mourad Lahlou of Aziza Restaurant in San Francisco, California
Dinner is served
Chef Stuart Brioza enjoying the perfect weather, pitches in in the kitchen.
Stuart had cheffed a bracingly chilly Outstanding in the Field vineyard dinner
at Devils Gulch Ranch a few weeks previous
Another beautiful day at the beach. Our second Sea Cove dinner.Chef Jamie Lauren and pastry chef Luis Villavelazquez
along with Jered Lawson from Pie Ranch tour the table
with Outstanding founder Jim Denevan
June 17 - The Abalone Farm, Cayucos, CA
Brad Buckley of The Abalone Farm shows off the product at the cliff side table site
Very fresh abalone
Cliff edge parking for table and bus
Chef Deborah Scarborough's grilled squash blossom pizza
July 18 - Windrose Farm, Paso Robles, CA
Windrose Farm setting
Chef Chris Kobayashi of Artisan Restaurant, Paso Robles
In the cool shade of a towering oak tree
Halter Ranch - established 1880
Mmmm!
June 20 - McGrath Family Farm, Camarillo, CA
Ventura County table
View from the bus
Among the gladiolas
Ready for guests
Farm tour!
Chef Tim Kilcoyne of The Side Car Restaurant, Ventura, CA
Ribollita of McGrath beans, beet greens and carrot top pesto
Chef Jim with Chef Rich
Uni shooters to start
A kitchen with a view
roast pork with Coleman Farm's greens
From the table
June 27 - Clark Summit Farm, Tomales, CA
Outstanding,in the Field
Moo
Ready for the tour
After 11 successful dinner journeys the bus finally breaks down
right where the table is supposed to go
right where the table is supposed to go
Katy keeps good cheer
Chef Melissa Perello carving the Clark Summit beef
Hilltop table
Stretching out into the sky
Outstanding crew sits down for family meal after the event ends
June 28 - Star Route Farm, Bolinas, CA
Warren Weber's coastal farm
Little Miss Sunshine redux
California weather
Cindy of the OITF staff
July 2 - Green String Farm, Petaluma, CA
Beautiful Sonoma County
Chef Christopher Lee brought his artisan made prosciutto slicer
OITF Bread by baker Mike Zakowski
Chef Christopher Lee in the field
Sonoma View
Passed hors d'oeuvres at the entrance to the barn
On site baking
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