The journal
Notes from the pass
The Monday field report, essays from the kitchen, and the occasional argument. Written by the cooks, not the marketing.
Field notes
Reading a Menu Is Reading a Place
What the order of a menu tells you about the valley it came from.
Read ServiceThe Case for the Three-Hour Dinner
Why we refuse to turn tables, and what that costs and gives back.
Read SourcingSeason Is Not a Limitation, It Is the Idea
The Tuesday the asparagus ran out, and why that night was better for it.
Read KitchenNotes From the Hearth, Month One
What a wood fire does to a kitchen that no gas range ever taught us.
Read SourcingThe Monday Field Report, Explained
Why eleven farms text us at eight, and what the walk-in knows by nine.
Read The roomWhat the Window Wall Does to a Dinner
We spent two years on a wall of glass. Here is what it changed.
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