What we do
The kitchen comes to the table.
Everything is cooked where you eat. Here is what that actually involves, and what happens between your first email and dinner.
Cooked where you eat
We bring our own fire.
Everything is cooked on site. The dishes that suffer from sitting are the ones finished last, and nothing goes into a hot box to wait out a speech. That is the difference between food that tastes like a restaurant and food that tastes like it waited two hours.
Before service we walk the room, so the food travels the shortest possible distance to the furthest table. It is not glamorous. It is why the short rib gets texted about.
The kitchen is whatever is behind the barn, the power is an extension lead somebody ran that morning, and a hundred and forty people sit down at the same moment. Planning for that is most of the job.
From date to dinner
Three steps, start to finish.
You can stop after any of them.
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Send the date and the headcount
And roughly what you had in mind. A menu and a price come back in writing — the dishes themselves get written closer to your date, around what the market is doing that week.
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Taste it before you sign
Sit down and eat the menu before you commit to it. The tasting is $75, credited toward your booking — hire us, and it cost you nothing.
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We cook, you sit
On the day the kitchen arrives, sets up out of sight and cooks where you eat. If the bar is running it is stocked and staffed alongside, priced to your evening.
A hundred and forty people
“They handled 140 people and it felt effortless.”
Effortless is the whole brief. If the room can tell how the food got there, something has gone wrong.
Bar service
We can run the bar too.
Quoted to your event rather than priced per head — send the headcount and how long you need it open, and we will put a number to it. It is stocked and staffed alongside the kitchen, so it is one crew and one invoice.
Request a quote
Tell us about your event.
Send the date, the headcount and roughly what you had in mind. We will come back with a menu and a price — and if a tasting makes sense, we will set one up.
- A menu and a price come back in writing.
- Tastings are $75, credited toward your booking.
- We answer Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Your email is ready to send.
Your mail app should have opened with the date, the headcount and everything else already written in — press send, and we will come back with a menu and a price.
If nothing opened, write to events@longtablesonoma.com or call (707) 555-0554, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.