You’re Invited Sunday Dinner

You heard it here first: Picnic will not have Sunday brunch. Why?  We are complementary.  Our neighborhood already has amazing brunch options, we don’t need to duplicate that.  It’s more important to me that our team has the opportunity to rest and recharge after they close up on Saturday night. And, we know from talking with our community that Mondays are a bigger sandwich sized hole in your life than Sundays.  

But, I love the convening power of food on a Sunday. Growing up, it was a big lunch after church with lots of extended family and usually a nap to cap it off.  Living in Boston, it evolved into Sunday dinners with our found family of friends. Everyone brought something and it was simple enough and fed that need to be together and keep the Sunday scaries at bay for just a few hours.  My first blog post I referenced Sunday dinners and feeding that need that is not just about food, but the convening power of food.  

So, starting Sunday, May 12 we will be bringing you Sunday Dinner at Picnic. You’re Invited. It feels only fitting to kick it off on Mother’s Day given this is a mom-led operation.  Kitz will be cooking for me, because I can’t do that to myself on my day off.  But I’ll be pouring drinks for you because it’s what I would do if you were at my house and that is the spirit of a Sunday dinner.  Less choices than our full menu, just what the host and hostess are offering.  You show up, we feed you. It really is that simple. Bring a mom! 

The weeks to follow we get to add in a layer that I’m so excited about. We can’t cook for you every week.  But what we can do is share Picnic with our chef friends across the cities.  You are going to get to stay in the neighborhood and enjoy some of the best food around. 

Picnic is a platform. Our menu development was a collaboration- more on that later.  Take an idea, give very talented people the time, space and creativity to make it their own. And get out of their way.  That’s the Picnic way.  So, for Sunday dinners we are offering up our kitchen to wildly talented friends and letting them bring you their food.  It might be the food they are known for or something new they are workshopping.  It might be a concept they are ready to launch, just waiting on the brick and mortar to be done. Or it might be friends just getting the gang back together and cooking for you for fun.

The space between having the tools and talents to succeed to opening a brick and mortar is wide, and risky.  We want to give our friends a space and a platform to test and tweak their great ideas.   So Sunday dinners are reserved for them.  And you’re invited.  Come support them and we will be behind the bar. 

Instagram will be the place for the latest on the schedule.  In reward to reading this far, here’s the all star line up: 

Sunday, May 12- Mother’s Day- Kitz and I are kicking it off.  He will cook a few Filipino favorites for all of you. I’ll be behind the bar. Come see what Sunday dinner is all about. 

And then… 

Sunday, May 19- Sushi by Baaska 

Sunday May 26- Nikki and Brian of the Salsa Collaborative - but not burgers

Sunday June 2- Adam Witherspoon- Greasy Spoon Syndicate 

Sunday June 9- Ben Spangler and Pete Nguyen

You’re invited!