Dining News: Confirmed - Former Eatery Chef Headed to Vierra Farms
June 03, 2014
Coming soon... @farmhouse_ws
— The Eatery (@eaterywestsac) May 21, 2014
Two weeks ago, I gave you all the evidence on why I thought former owner/chef at The Eatery Jess Milbourn was headed to Vierra Farms. At that time, the lease for The Farmhouse restaurant had yet to be signed, but now it's confirmed, via Rodney Blackwell at Sac Foodways.
Beginning this summer, Milbourn will run the food concessions at Vierra Farms in the form of a roadside grill serving a casual lunch a dinner five days a week. They will also be hosting pop-up dinners as they work on converting the existing ranch house into The Farmhouse restaurant which will serve a “contemporary farmhouse cuisine” on the 4 acre site. While the roadside grill will open this Summer, The Farmhouse restaurant is set to be fully converted in about a year. Vierra Farms is just 4 miles away from The Eatery’s old location on Jefferson Blvd in West Sacramento.
The goal for the new restaurant is to create a vertically integrated farmhouse dining experience. That means the produce from the restaurant will come from the farm surrounding it. “I want to produce the food I cook and forage for anything we can’t,” Milbourn said by email. “We are located in the delta, right on the river and I’ve already found wild raspberries, walnuts, blackberries and a ton of mushrooms that I need to get examined, but I’m hoping at least some are edible”
Read the entire post in Sac Foodways.
Vierra Farms is located at 3010 Burrows Ave in West Sacramento. The Farmhouse can be found online at https://www.facebook.com/farmhousewestsacramento.
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