SEVEN ACRE FALL DINNER SERIES

Our Fall Dinner Series showcases chefs and dinners that warm the soul and enliven the spirit as our Wisconsin days get shorter and we transition to winter. Get tickets today!

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Please Note:
Unless otherwise indicated, dinners are communal seating, with some dinners offering limited space at the Chef’s counter. Tickets are fully refundable up to 1-week before the event & are non-refundable after that. Tickets are always fully transferable to other friends, family, and guests if you can’t make it.

OUR ITALIAN KITCHENS – Low tickets!
with Chefs Anna Francese Gass & Patrick Depula
Oct. 21, 2026
Anna Francese Gass is a celebrated chef, writer, tv personality, and the author of Heirloom Kitchen (2019), Italian Snacking (2024), and her newest book, Instant Italian (2026). Patrick Depula is the founder, chef, and owner of Salvatore’s Tomato Pies, an award-winning group of restaurants in Dane County. Together, Anna and Patrick will cook their family’s favorite Italian and Italian-American dishes, while telling stories that weave together the ways that food helped them create and understand their Italian identities.
$95/pp + tax + gratuity
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THE BIG BUTTER DINNER
with Anna Landmark & Chef Dan Bonanno
Oct. 28, 2026
Dan Bonanno is one of Wisconsin’s most beloved chefs. Anna Landmark is one of the state’s most accomplished buttermakers. They come together for one night–AND ONE NIGHT ONLY–to craft a dinner that celebrates our state’s favorite food: butter. Move over cheese and ice cream, tonight’s a night for all the butter lovers out there. Don’t miss this 5-course homage to butter. $95/pp + tax + gratuity.
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HUNTING SEASON – Low tickets!
with Hank Shaw
Nov. 4, 2026
Hank Shaw is a chef, outdoorsmen, hunter, and award-winning food writer based out of the St. Paul, Minnesota. Hank returns to Seven Acre Dairy Company to celebrate Wisconsin’s upcoming deer hunting season and the arrival of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Buck, Buck, Moose, his best-selling cookbook that’s now expanded to include 30 new recipes and 200 color photographs. This special dinner with Hank will showcase venison cookery and other game meats. All guests will receive a signed copy of the new book included in the ticket price.
$95/pp + tax + gratuity
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AN ODE TO A FARM – Sold Out!
with Chef Christian Hunter
Nov. 11, 2026
Christian Hunter is a Chicago-based chef who led Atelier to a MICHELIN star and received the 2023 MICHELIN Young Chef Award. Before Chicago, he earned a James Beard Award finalist nod for Best Chef: Northeast at Community Table in New Preston, Connecticut, where he built his reputation around small, local farms and hyper-seasonal ingredients. He’ll team up with Flynn Creek Farm, a Sugar River Valley farm in nearby Verona, for a night where he showcases the meats, vegetables, and eggs from their regenerative farming operation.
$85/pp + tax + gratuity
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A FEATHER AND A FORK
with Chef Crystal Wahpepah
Nov. 18, 2026
A registered member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, Chef Crystal Wahpepah is the owner of Wahpepah’s Kitchen–the first Native woman-owned restaurant in Northern California and 2022 Best New Restaurant in the Bay Area. She has appeared on Food Network’s Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay and she was named a finalist for the James Beard Award for Emerging Chef in 2022. Her celebrated new cookbook, A Feather and a Fork, is a masterful work of storytelling that showcases 125 Indigenous recipes alongside a powerful case for Indigenous food sovereignty. Chef Wahpepah will tell stories from her new cookbook as guests enjoy a dinner that showcases and spotlights Indigenous cookery and producers. $95pp + tax + gratuity.
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RYE, WHISKEY… DINNER
with Author Robert Simonson & Chef Kyle Knall
Dec. 2, 2026
Author Robert Simonson is returning to Seven Acre to celebrate the release of his new book Bourbon and Rye Cocktails: The History of American Whiskey in 73 Recipes. He’s bringing with him his friend, Chef Kyle Knall, whose restaurants Birch and CASSIS, are two of Milwaukee’s (and the country’s top restaurants), with Birch being named one of America’s top restaurants by The New York Times.
$100/pp + tax + gratuity (dinner only)
PAIRING: + $50/pp+ tax + gratuity for optional 5-course mini-cocktail pairings.
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CHRISTMASTIME IN VIENNA – Sold Out!
with Chef Gale Gand
Dec. 9, 2026
Gale Gand is one of the country’s top pastry chefs, restaurateurs, authors, and tv personalities. She’s the author of 8 cookbooks and was the host of Food Networks Sweet Dreams for 5 seasons. Her Michelin two-star restaurant, Tru, is considered one of Chicago’s most iconic restaurants of all time. Chef Gand will come to Seven Acre to cook a dinner that celebrates Christmastime in Vienna–there will be plenty of desserts, of course, but also plenty of Austrian and German holiday classics. $150/pp + tax + gratuity
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HOLIDAY SMOKE
with Pitmaster Daniel Hammond
Dec. 16th, 2026
A former special education teacher, Daniel leaped into full-time BBQ in 2022 and quickly became one of the most respected pitmasters in the region. He’s been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Bronzeville Life Magazine, and has made TV appearances on WGN and FOX 32 News. His BBQ was named “Best in Chicago” by Midwest Living Magazine. Daniel’s dinner will be a multi-course holiday-themed BBQ experience.
$70/pp + tax + gratuity
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PAST EVENTS

FORAGING IN THE FALL – Low tickets!
with Master Naturalist Chris Gavin
September 23, 2026
Chris Gavin is a Master Naturalist, expert forager, and one of southern Wisconsin’s foremost authorities on wild foods. Chris will walk guests through Seven Acre’s restored prairie and oak savanna, teaching participants how to identify and harvest the edible wild foods of fall. From there, the Seven Acre culinary team will prepare the group’s just-harvested wild edibles, showcasing them in a multi-course meal cooked outdoors over live fire.
$110/pp + tax + gratuity
Note: This dinner will be outdoors, weather permitting.
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A TOP CHEF POP UP – Sold Out!
with Chef Laurence Louie
Sept. 30, 2026
Laurence Louie is a Chinese-American chef and owner of Rubato in Quincy, MA. One of America’s rising culinary stars, Chef Louie is a Food Network Chopped Champion and a James Beard Award Semi-Finalist, while Rubato was named one of Bon Appetit’s: Best New Restaurants. He was also a Finalist on Season 23 of Bravo’s Top Chef. Chef Louie’s dinner at Seven Acre will feature his Top Chef favorites and highlight what judges loved about his point of view and his take on modern Chinese cooking.
EARLY BIRD: $125/pp + tax + gratuity
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FROM SOUTHERN SOILS TO WISCONSIN FIELDS – Low Tickets!
with Chef Lamar Moore
Oct. 7, 2026
Lamar Moore is the Chef/Owner of Moore Please Hospitality in Chicago, IL, where he shares the rich flavors of Southern cuisine. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, Chef Moore’s cooking has been heavily-inspired by his grandmother’s Mississippi foodways and a career in some of the country’s most celebrated restaurants. He’s appeared on numerous Food Network shows, including Chopped, Beat Bobby Flay, and Vegas Chef Prizefight. In 2025, he was named a James Beard Semifinalist for Best Chef: Great Lakes. Chef Moore’s dinner at Seven Acre will celebrate the connection between two proud traditions: Southern hospitality and Wisconsin’s rich agricultural heritage.
$70/pp + tax + gratuity
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PCHUM BEN: A CAMBODIAN FEAST – Low tickets!
with Chef Malyna Si
Oct. 14, 2026
Born in Philadelphia to parents of Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese, and Vietnamese descent, Chef Malyna Si is now the Culinary Director at Morodok Hospitality in Jackson Hole, WY. Before arriving in Wyoming, Chef Si was the Executive Chef at Capa in Orlando, where she made history as the first female chef to earn and maintain a Michelin star in Florida. Her cooking leans heavily into her Pan-Asian roots, and Chef Si is excited to do just that for her dinner at Seven Acre, with a feast inspired by Pchum Ben, a Cambodian celebration of ancestors that takes place every fall.
$70/pp + tax + gratuity
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