Pop-Up Restaurant: Archive

Heron Pond Farm Dinner

I get asked a lot about when I am going to be doing a pop-up. The truth is that I have been doing them but in keeping with my desire to make them different, this year I have been doing smaller affairs with selected guests. Last Friday I cooked dinner for 8 people at Heron Pond Farms on Tower Mountain. This was a chance for me to do a Wandering Table style event. There are advantages to feeding 8...

Sep 15th

Pop-Up #9 Brown Bag Recap

All of the Pop-Ups have been different and this one was different-er then most. This was somewhere between an event catering and event vending. Midweek events are a bit of a problem for my schedule so I tried to make it as simple as possible for myself by doing a brown bag dinner. Quick and easy. Just hand people a bag. In order to pull off this easy event I worked a fifteen hour day to bake off...

Jun 8th

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Pop-Up Brown Bag

I will be offering up some food at a great local event for anyone in Spokane that cares about what they eat. My participation will be to provide sandwiches and side salads. You will have your choice of a vegetarian Vietnamese sandwich or a Moroccan-Style lamb sandwich. I will have some lentil and chick pea salads to sample. The legumes are from the PNW Co-op in Moscow ID and representatives will...

May 23rd

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Pop-UP 2011 Preview

Since there are so many new people who have been asking about the next Pop-Up I figured it was time to catch everyone up on what is going on. Last year we did 8 events and served nearly a 800 people. Grass fed Hamburgers, Handmade Pasta, Omelets, handmade sausages, and spit roasted lamb all done with local ingredients sourced directly from the producers or grown by me and cooked outdoors. The...

Mar 2nd

Aug 16th

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Status Update July

There are a few things that need to be covered. Pop-Up has been busy doing private events. Some of them really small but all of them fun. There are at least two big events coming up in August but then things will be small for awhile. This will allow me to have more fun with the concepts. Once we started feeding more than 100 people at an event, the dynamics changed and it started to feel like...

Jul 15th

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May 25th

The future of restaurants is being written... →

May 7th

Change is Happening Everywhere

A friend sent me this link to a street food guideline matrix for some top street food cities. The interesting part is the discrepancy between rules governing bathroom access. In Spokane if you are using a mobile food permit and plan to stay in one location longer than 2 hours then you must have a signed bathroom access agreement on file for that location. The website also has good coverage of...

Apr 28th

Moving into the future while stuck in the past.

Not quite sure what I should say about what has been going on behind the scenes. Basically, the status of this project is uncertain due to my attempt to work within the confines of the the Health Departments rules. You can get a permit to operate a brick and mortar restaurant, a mobile unit or a temporary food establishment. It would seem like I should be either a temporary or mobile unit but I am...

Apr 27th

Pop-Up #1 Report

photos by Lydia The skies parted just long enough for Pop-Up #1 to cook up some burgers and start off this year of committing random acts of food. The whole operation was transported by bike to a lovely spot on the newly paved Spokane section of the Fish Lake Trail. Set-up was a bit chaotic but went quickly. The invited guests were forgiving of the fact that I told them the walk would be .5...

Apr 4th

workarounds keep things moving

These are the things I have learned this week. Spokane DOES have a viral internet infrastructure.There are plenty of people interested in buying food in new ways. And there is at least one person who doesn’t like it. Within twelve hours of sending out the first emails, I was contacted by the Spokane Regional Health District. Someone had submitted a complaint in regards to Pop-Up’s plan to commit...

Mar 26th

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Why Is it possible to open a restaurant for $100? Yes, but you have to start small- very small. Pop-Up will be operating all summer long in random location; outdoors, indoors, and behind closed doors. The money from each event will be used to buy more equipment and more food. The menu, location and concept will grow and evolve. What Pop-Up Restaurant begins with a hamburger: Grass fed local...

Mar 8th

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