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Guests down one long table in the barn at Locavore Farm, string lights on

Saturday, August 1, 2026 · Grant Park

Locavore Farm Table

$225 a seat · 5 courses

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The story of the night

Season 11 at Locavore Farm, and our first table in Grant Park: ninety-one guests, a farm tour at golden hour, and dinner down one very long table in the barn as the string lights came on.

Nearly everything came off the property that week: the chicken and the lamb, the kale and the kohlrabi, the herbs we grabbed on the Wednesday walk-through. Bites passed during the tour, courses plated from the barn pass, and brown butter honeycomb boxed for the ride home.

Thank you to Rachael, Christopher, and the whole Locavore crew for the welcome. First of many, we hope.

Written the week of, from what the farms hand us. This is the shape of the night, not a contract.

Locavore Farm Table

Locavore Farm

  • Bitesmozzarella di carrozza · grilled pepper, eggplant, and mushroom skewers
  • Onekale, tomato, and fennel salad, cherry vinaigrette
  • Breadjuniper and maple rolls, sage butter
  • Twohorseradish miso chicken thighs, grilled kohlrabi purée, kimchi cucumbers
  • Threespicy lamb cabbage rolls, summer squash, feta, ramps
  • Fourzucchini bread, buttermilk, mint, puffed wild rice
  • Take-homebrown butter honeycomb

Bourbon lemonade and a garden cocktail at the fire, wines down the table, all poured by Locavore Farm’s own bar and crew.

A place setting with a welcome card, block-print napkin, and postcard on a burlap charger
Bradyn and the crew plating a course at the barn pass, guests at the long table behind
The long table set with wildflowers, candles, and glassware before guests arrive

The farms

  • Locavore Farm

With

  • Locavore Farm, Host farm: Rachael & Christopher Jones

The practical part

Where
Locavore Farm
11588 N 17500E Rd, Grant Park, IL
When
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Doors 5:00 PM · seated 6:30 PM
Dietary
Vegetarian versions ran the length of the menu.
Cancellation
Ticketed through Locavore Farm for Season 11.

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