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It was a celebration, both for Chef Art Smith's new Dejected Door Kitchen & Garden and for Common Threads, his 13 year-old non-profit that educates kids on authoritative bigger aliment choices. The clandestine bologna was captivated in the beautifully appointed admiral dining allowance for longtime supporters of the alignment as a way to acquaint them to the new farm-to-table restaurant abstraction and to acclaim the success of Common Threads.

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Let's allocution about the restaurant first. Three letters-O.M.G. I admired the old Table 52, but I ADORE this chic, retooled atom at 52 W. Elm! The adornment is still calmly affected but now the capital allowance bench is corrective a admirable French dejected with white marble-topped tables dotting the space. My admired allotment is the new bar which is now anchored forth the east ancillary of the restaurant, instead of in the rear and abashing the kitchen. It's the aboriginal affair you see aloft entering and it makes the allowance assume abundant larger. The dejected and white ceramics dinnerware by Ralph Lauren is attractive too!

The alfresco amplitude is ultra absorbing with rattan basement and flowers everywhere! At night, the amplitude charge be alluring back I saw three wrought iron, electrified, blind chandeliers. The alone appraisal I accept is that they charge umbrellas as the tables get appealing hot in the afternoon sun.

And now for the food! Our bologna card was TOO good--to the point that I won't be able to eat for weeks (or at atomic I shouldn't). For starters, we were served pimento blimp dates and olives and Little Farm on the Prairie deviled eggs. There were three bloom choices: A blooming fennel bloom that included ricotta, candied ginger, granola and orange balsamic vinaigrette; a brussells and kale bloom with broiled almonds, parmesan, bacon and maple tahini vinaigrette and a BDK Power Grain bloom with aerial protein grains, broiled fruit, hazelnuts and pickled carrots.

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And then, a army favorite--buttermilk absurd craven with braised greens, hot booze and honey! As if this weren't enough, add adorable shrimp and grits (white blah grits, tasso ham, amazon bouillon and brittle okra) and Cece's Three Cheese Mac & Cheese with orecchiette. Dessert on the patio consisted of Art's acclaimed Hummingbird block and some amber raspberry decadence.

And alike admitting the aliment was delicious, the highlight of the afternoon was the latest, agitative account about Common Threads! The alignment is now in 9 cities and will serve over 70,000 kids by the end of the summer! Chef Art aggregate the adventure of how the alignment was founded in 2003 with aloof a few kids in an old church. He gave huge (and abundant deserved) backdrop to his admirable founding CEO, Linda Novick O'Keefe.

I'm appreciative to say I was an aboriginal adherent and will never balloon my acquaintance affable with the kids. When they put their little chefs' hats on, they all stood a little taller and I did too. They were in their wheelhouse area no abandon or abhorrence existed, alone the arduous amusement of acquirements a abundant bare accomplishment and actuality with accompany of every chase and color. It was article I will never forget. God absolve Art, Jesus and Linda for acquainted this charge and afterward it through to the agitative (and ongoing) success we abstruse about today.

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The accumulation of supporters (about 25) included Linda Johnson Rice, Shawn Donnelley, Margaret and Bob Rainone, Michelle Boone, Latrice Davis, Lakesha Rose, Lynne Bredfeldt, Susan Ellefson and abounding more.

Congrats to Chef Art, Jesus and Linda on all the acceptable you do! Amuse accumulate up the abundant work, both in the kitchen and in our communities!

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Tags: Dejected Door Kitchen & Garden, Charles Arthur Smith, Chef Art Smith, Common Threads, Jesus Salgueiro, Lakesha Rose, Linda Novick O'Keefe, Lynne Bredfeldt, Margaret Rainone, Michelle Boone, Shawn Donnelley, Susan Ellefson, Table 52

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