Harvest Wednesdays
Every Wednesday the Gladstone Hotel and Chef Marc Breton offer urbanites farm fresh fare and an opportunity to experience the unparalleled flavour of foods harvested in the natural rhythm of our local growing season.
Each week Chef Breton’s menu is inspired by the fresh produce harvested by farmer Sherry Patterson of Chick-a-Biddy Acres CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) as well as local meats, cheeses, wines and beers from our Harvest Wednesday Partners.
2009 Harvest Wednesday Events Schedule:
To Buy Tickets for Tastings
call (416) 531-4635 Ext 7100
To Reserve for Prix Fixe Dinners or
Purchase Tickets for Final Harvest Table Dinner
call (416) 531-4635 Ext 7100
Take a look at our previous Harvest Wednesday Menus
Final Harvest Table Dinner
- Wed Oct 21 MENU
- Seating at 6:30pm | Dinner at 7pm
- Come celebrate the end of the harvest season! Enjoy a casual communal dinner with dishes inspired by peak season produce. Share a table with some old friends or make some new ones as you pass along delicious platters. Enjoy! Talk! Eat!
Types of Events
What is a Tasting? Join the growers and farmer to kick off each stage of the harvest. Sample our chef’s hors d’oeuvres along with locally produced wines and beers at this cocktail style tasting event. Meet the farmer and producers and enjoy live music. Wet your appetite and then stay for dinner in our Café or Melody Bar. Wednesday night specials will feature seasonal produce!
$17.50 Including wine and beer tastings (Pre-purchased Ticket Recommended)
What is the Prix Fixe? Join us for a relaxed dining experience that will make you feel like you are in the farmer’s orchard. Chef Marc Breton will create three-course Prix Fixe inspired by “fresh off the field” farm produce and featuring local cheeses, fish, meats or poultry. Seasonal cocktails and suggested wine and beer pairings from local producers will be priced separately.
$35pp (Pre-Purchased Tickets Recommended)
What is the Final Harvest Table? Come celebrate the end of the harvest season! Enjoy a casual communal dinner with dishes inspired by peak season produce. Share a table with some old friends or make some new ones as you pass along delicious platters. Enjoy! Talk! Eat!
Seating at 6:30pm Dinner at 7pm | $60pp (Advance Ticket Required)
The harvest changes from week to week, and so does the menu!
*Alcohol is not included except were indicated. PST and GST will be added to all prices quoted.
EAT GOOD! @ the Gladstone!
Gladstone Staff go to Chick-A-Biddy Acres from Gladstone Hotel on Vimeo.
· If You Ate Today Thank A Farmer - The Gladstone supports local farmers through a CSA membership. Join us for Harvest Wednesday where you can enjoy the shared bounty and shared risk of supporting a farmer directly…
· Real Food will Blow Your Mind – We want you to experience what food tastes like direct from the farmer, in season. Trust us, it will change you!
· Taste the Season - Reconnect to the natural rhythm of our local growing season. Harvest Wednesdays delivers a compelling seasonal narrative over four months. The story, characters, and flavours evolve as each new chapter unfolds.
· Local Food Heroes - Chef Marc Breton responds to the weekly harvest delivered by Sherry Patterson of Chick A Biddy Acres CSA farm. This gifted chef has 24 hours to take the food from farm to kitchen to table. No wonder the Toronto Food Policy Council named him a Local Food Hero in 2007.
· Be Part of the Movement – What started with one farm four years ago has expanded to include over forty artisan growers. Have a ’staycation’, find out what Ontario has to offer without leaving Toronto.
· Plug In - Come and meet the farmer and producers at our relaxed monthly cocktail party style event. Urban and rural people have a lot in common – You will make new friends.
· Come As You Are - Harvest Wednesday is fun, relaxed and delicious. With good food, music and conversation. We want you to feel as if you’re dining in the orchard.
· Down to Earth - Our kitchen workers and serving staff go to the farm and work at the farmer’s side, pick the bounty, weed the land and learn about food directly from the farmer.
· From the Heart - The Gladstone is a model of values-led entrepreneurial activism. Four years ago Christina Zeidler, owner of The Gladstone Hotel conceived of a local food series that would support local growers and connect them directly to the public. This mandate has grown with our Harvest Wednesday program to develop and expand our local supplier and partner base for the hotel though out the year. We think that Ontarians deserve to eat Ontario food.
