The Art & Craft of Dining

Special Price for Slow Food Members

The Connection: 2008 Arts & Crafts Conference is pleased to present The Art & Craft of Dining Experience at the Roycroft Inn on Saturday October 25 at 7pm as part of the at the 5^h annual conference celebrating Western New York’s turn of the century Arts & Crafts Trail.

Chef Andrew Nuernberg and Dan Garvey from the historic Roycroft Inn is working with Slow Food Buffalo member Sandy Starks to create yet another spectacular Art & Craft of Dining© event. The dinner emphasizes Slow Food principles and features products produced locally and that are sustainable.

The theme will be  Roycroft Arden Farms Reconnected. Dan Roelofs, great-grandson of Roycroft founder Elbert Hubbard, has recently returned to East Aurora to help his family and the farm. Arden Farms, located on Billington Road, is the oldest certified organic farm in Erie County and Dan has worked hard to plant a variety of organic and heritage vegetables and herbs for this event.

This year’s menu features many of the farms and producers that are at the Elmwood Bidwell Market and other area farmers markets. Wines will be from the Niagara Wine region.

Reception

We will fete our friends with hors d’oeurves, ales, beer, wine and cheese

from Western New York

Lapp Farm Dairy

Spar’s Sausage

Avenue Boys Smokehouse

Freedom Run Winery

Flying Bison Brewing Company

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Dinner Menu

Root Vegetable Chowder

Smoked ham hock

Arden Farms

Blossom Hill Farms

Freedom Run Reserve Dry Niagara

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Apple and Beet Salad

Fresh Cassadaga Cow feta-style cheese, pine nuts and an apple cider vinaigrette

Arden Farms

Lapp Farm Dairy

Niagara Landing Reserve Chardonnay

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Intermezzo of fruit granita

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Rabbit Vegetable Ravioli

Inn-dried tomatoes, pear and port wine butter and fresh cream

Pasta Peddler

Painted Meadows Farms

Arden Farms

Arrowhead Spring Vineyards Apogee Red

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Roast Cornish Game Hen

Sweet maple glaze, carrot confit, and buttered yams

Wendell Farms

Warm Lake Estate Pinot Noir 2006

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Hubbard squash and honey pie drizzled with crème fraiche

Chocolate Truffle

Arden Farms

Chow Chocolate

White Cow Dairy

Hunt Country Late Harvest Vignoles

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This year’s Art & Craft of Dining will truly be unique as we will connect our dining experience to the farm that once provided quality nourishment to the original Roycrofters and to the other local, sustainable food providers in Western New York.

For more information on this event visit the Roycroft’s website or call the Roycroft Inn at 716-652-5552. Seating is limited.

Cost: $100. Special pricing for Slow Food members is $75.