Ramp It Up! Dinner Party

Sweetwater Supper Club resumes our summer outdoor dinner parties, kicking off the season with Ramp It Up! ~ a delicious 7 course dinner celebrating the delicate and divine flavors of local wild ramps.

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To add even more flair to the occasion,  Sadie Fletcher of Watauga Lake Winery will be serving wine pairings with three of the courses to further highlight the unique flavor profiles of our Appalachian region.

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Live music by local Americana bluegrass musician rounds out this exquisite evening, heralding the dawning of spring!

Ramps: one of nature's most unsung delicacies.  Equal parts onion and garlic flavor with just a hint of umami, and only available in the woods for a few short weeks, ramps are truly one of the Earth's most unique offerings to us mere mortals.

Just as ramps need a perfect storm of environment, weather, altitude, and forest, I believe that a truly great dish needs a perfect storm of all the flavor profiles. This menu is designed to celebrate both ramps and balanced flavor profiles.

My hope is that each course brings the diner a renewed excitement for how food can make you feel inside, as well as an appreciation for the beauty that is all around us in the wilderness, even when we don't notice it.

~ Chef Derek Visser