For the previous eight years, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Celebration has actually provided food-loving concertgoers a special farm-to-table dining experience established in the beautiful VIP Rose Garden.

The Outstanding in the Field dinner is a family-style meal served on a 200-person table that curves around a green grassy area. Diners are dealt with to meals by different star chefs each night of the festival that are paired with wine.

Supper starts at 6 p.m., simply as the sun begins to set. At $364.80 a plate (charges consisted of), this experience isn't inexpensive. And yes, you can get just as nice of a supper for that much money, or probably even less, at an expensive dining establishment.

Is it worth it?

I checked it out throughout the very first day of the festival on Friday, April 14 and yes, it is worth it, but not especially for the food. Though the meal is extraordinary, it's a lot more about the social element.


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that curves around a green grassy area. Diners are served farm-to-table dinners created by different star chefs each night of the festival. (Photo by Richard Guzman, SCNG). Show Caption of. Broaden. Because it's one long table, you end up satisfying brand-new good friends, like the hotdog mogul I sat beside and the FedEx pilot whose better half and daughter and her child's buddy removed prior to the main dish to see Blondie perform.

I've never sat beside or perhaps near a farmer who grew a few of the food I will it.

" I come every year to support this. I love the neighborhood and I enjoy the environment. It's vibrant to be eating food with complete strangers," Jeffery Lunak, who sat beside me at the supper said.

Lunak is somebody who knows a little about food since he is the creator of Sumo Dog, a Japanese influenced hot dog spot, which has 2 food stands at Coachella. They also have stands at locations like Yankee Stadium and SoFi Stadium and he's an accomplished chef who worked under Iron Chef master Masaharu Morimoto.

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" Tonight for me the highlight is satisfying the people. Individuals I'm eating with actually and figuratively," he stated.

Sitting throughout from us, sporting gold chains and a couple of rings sat Andrew Franklin, a Florida citizen who works as a FedEx pilot.

He flies packages all over the world and was at the festival with his wife and 22-year-old child, who was celebrating her college graduation. It was his celebration who left the supper early to see Blondie, so Franklin was chatting it up with everybody else at the table.

" I didn't understand what to anticipate, but this was simply a welcome surprise, conference random individuals who were great people from all strolls of life," he stated.

The chef on Friday night was Zarah Khan, the executive chef of the well-known Rustic Canyon dining establishment in Santa Monica.

The staff placed plates of food on the table and it was up to the restaurants to spoon and fork them onto their plates, just like at a family supper.

The main dish of Khan's four-course supper was expected to be halibut with jade rice, but we wound up getting salmon. Prior to that, the supper began with pickled turnips followed by roasted mushroom labneh with scallions and lion's mane powder laffa. That meal was the standout of the supper and appeared like an expensive baba ghanoush.

There was likewise a salad made with gem lettuce, green radish and tahini green goddess dressing and herbs topped with an orange edible Calendula flower.

The farmer sitting beside us grew that flower. She shared all the methods it might be cooked.

" It's simply a gorgeous, edible, flexible flower," said Nicole Tadros, who in addition to her hubby, Mark Tadros, owns the Aziz Farm, which is based in close-by Thermal.

" You can consume it in its raw kind, you can dehydrate it and eat it, I've in fact air fried it before," she continued.

Like the others sitting by her, one of her preferred parts of this supper, besides speaking about her flowers, was speaking to people she had actually simply fulfilled.

" This is all about community, locally grown food and knowing the story behind the food. We didn't know our neighbors when we took a seat and now we do," she said.

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