Signature Meals
Intimate dining experiences where acclaimed chefs, exceptional wines, and thoughtful hospitality take center stage.
Picnic
Some of the finest meals arrive in paper bags. For one afternoon, Joey Edwards of Blackberry Mountain trades the dining room for the open air, composing a picnic meant to be carried into the light and unwrapped wherever the day takes you. All of the dishes are tucked away like a small gift. Considered, portable, and quietly extraordinary: a meal designed to meet the mountains on their own terms. A treasure chest made for exploration.
Talent + Partners:
Joey Edwards, Blackberry Mountain
Live Music from Rusty Lazer, Phoebe Hunt & Bonnie Sims (of Big Richard)
Friday, July 10, 2026
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM MDT
Elks Park
Sea To Peak … Napa Meets New Orleans in Telluride
New Orleans never travels lightly, and tonight it arrives in full. Prepare to be inundated with the great flavors of the City that Care Forgot presented by three of the great chefs in the city Steven Stryjewski, Ryan Prewitt, and Tyler Spreen. Many will know that the basis of all of this great food comes from harnessing and uplifting the simplest, yet finest, ingredients available. Truly from the farm and the range and the sea to the table. When combined with the boldness of crawfish and the nuance of freshly foraged chanterelles, grits can go to the top of the mountain and scream ‘Hallelujah.’
This same philosphy holds for the Matthiassons (Steve came to the wine world after running farmers markets in northern California for years and Jill ran CSAs after getting her masters in agriculture) who create beauty and subtlety from fruit that is farmed with gentility and grace, to create balance between ripeness, acidity, and tenacity. These wines, with the power and grace of a prima ballerina, will wrap themselves around these dishes and together leap into the starry night.
Talent + Partners:
Stephen Stryjewski, Cochon, LRG
Ryan Prewitt, Peche, LRG
Tyler Spreen, Herbsaint, LRG
Josh Klein, La Marmotte / Side Work / Kazahana
Jill and Steve Matthiasson, Matthiasson Wines
Live Music from Rusty Lazer, Phoebe Hunt & Bonnie Sims (of Big Richard)
Friday, July 10, 2026
6:30 PM MDT
TSRC Depot
Subarashi @ Kazahana
Talent + Partners:
Naoki Takehashi, Kazahana
Saturday, July 11, 2026
12:30 PM MDT
Kazahana
Chacra x BMTN x The National
The wines of Bodega Chacra are full of tension and complexity and wonder, and will have your mind wandering to Patagonia. Like the San Juan’s, Patagonia is a place of penetrating beauty, vastness, splendor, and mystery. These wines tell a story…and this is the full story. We will be trying wines from multiple vintages in multiple formats led by the master craftsman himself Piero Incisa della Rochetta. To help narrate the evening Andy Chabot, food and beverage director of Blackberry Farm, will lead us through an incredible journey composed by both Joey Edwards of Blackberry Mountain and, our hosts for the evening, local stars Chris and Kate Thompson of the National. Come indulge in the exotic and the familiar, the complexity of the composition, and the simplicity of enjoyment.
Talent + Partners:
Piero Incisa della Rocchetta, Bodega Chacra
Joey Edwards, BMTN
Chris Thompson, The National
Andy Chabot, Sommelier, Blackberry
David Bond, Sommelier, Blackberry
Saturday, July 11, 2026
6:30 PM MDT
The National Telluride