Thursday Dining Club with Dining on the Edge CT
Join us (almost) every Thursday for weekly dinners with Chef Jason and Alexandra Welch of Dining on the Edge CT. Every dinner will showcase lots of local ingredients and small purveyors from around Connecticut/New England while celebrating a fun new theme and flavors each time!
Thursday Dining Club returns on Thursday, December 4 with a French Bistro dinner!
Prices per person and include tax and gratuity.
View each night's detailed menu below!
Weekly Menus
FIRST: Soupe a L'Oignon
French onion soup with Young's Farm caramelized onions, beef stock, toasted home made sourdough focaccia, and melted Cato Corner Farm Dairyere and Gruyère cheese
SECOND: Salad Niçoise
Seared yellowfin tuna, last of the season farm tomato jam, quail egg, frisee lettuce, Young's Farm potato confit, fried capers, and kalamata olive vinaigrette
THIRD: Magret de Canard Fumé
Lightly smoked and rendered Pekin duck breast, Sub Edge Farm parsnip puree, Killingsworth cranberry vinaigrette, and duck leg confit sauce
FOURTH: Tart Tatin
Upside down local apple tart with brown butter caramel and vanilla bean cream cheese gelato
About Dining on the Edge CT
Chef Jason and Alexandra Welch are committed to using the majority of ingredients for their dinners from local Connecticut farms and small purveyors, especially Sub Edge Farm. Through Dining on the Edge, their goal is to promote these farms and bring attention to them, their needs, and challenges they all are facing, especially due to climate change and inflation across the country. Most importantly, the food that these farms and small businesses provide for the public is organic and healthy, and it takes a lot of hard work to produce what they can every year!
These dinners and events are all about the farms, and the people who run them.
Chef Jason Welch is a Farmington, Connecticut native with an impressive culinary journey that began in New York City at the French Culinary Institute, and subsequently the legendary Gotham Bar and Grill under the helm of Chef Alfred Portale. After almost two years in the city, Jason went on to work as Sous Chef for Oran Mor Bistro—one of the top restaurants on Nantucket—and Craftsteak restaurants, and also held recurring roles as Executive Chef for the Connecticut-based Barcelona restaurant group. In Connecticut, Jason was also the Chef de Cuisine at Mill at 2T in Tariffville, an award-winning restaurant and James Beard House participant.
After time spent at the Mill, Jason returned to Nantucket and Oran Mor Bistro as the Chef de Cuisine, before trading the ocean for the mountains to become the Executive Chef of Turpin Meadow Ranch in Wyoming. Here, in one of the most beautiful places on earth, Jason spent three years honing his craft and building relationships with local farmers and ranchers.
After years of traveling back east from the west, Jason decided to work primarily in his home state of Connecticut, first helping to open Porron and Piña at Hartford's Goodwin Hotel with Chef Tyler Anderson, and eventually taking over as Chef-Partner of Fork and Fire in his hometown of Farmington.
In the spring of 2021, wanting to engage more with how the food he purchased for so many years is grown and raised, Jason began working at Sub Edge Farm. Jason says, "This eye opening experience opened my heart and soul, and ignited the flame within myself to start cooking again, inspired by the land and the vegetables that I was surrounded by."
With that, and his extensive restaurant experience, Jason developed a private chef business catering to guests on the farm and in their homes, and his love for the culinary arts began anew.
Over the years, Jason has developed his own cooking style and his passion for the craft is unmatched: "I truly love being in the kitchen, learning new techniques and of course creating new dishes... lucky to have stumbled into the culinary world so many years ago."
