Explore and celebrate flavors of the farm with
Chef Eury Santana
Experience the diversity of flavors that grow here at Crown Hill prepared fresh from the garden onto your plate. What could taste better than freshly picked foods, exquisitely prepared just for you?!
First, join us in Eden at Crown Hill Farm
Get a tour of the gardens and enjoy learning more about Crown Hill Farm and what we do here. See your dinner growing in the gardens and learn about our no-till / low-till, mindfully grown practices.
Put your hands in the soil, learn about the diversity of vegetables that grow at Crown Hill Farm.
Then, take a quick drive to Alchemy Wine & Beer
After enjoying the beautiful view and tour of the farm, we’ll hop in the car and re-locate to Alchemy Wine & Beer in Hamburg Village. Enjoy dining on the patio or indoors in a lovely setting with a little taste of farmlife brought along!
Sit down and prepare for your senses to be delighted by the tastes of summer are beautifully presented to you in a multi-course dinner. Enjoy a bit of the farm-life atmosphere as Missy Singer DuMars shares about each dish and how it brings Crown Hill Farm to life on your plate.
Learn about heirloom and heritage foods grown there and what is fresh and in season at this time of the year. Discover how the market gardens are tended with no-till/low-till practices to preserve soil and support delicious, nutrient-rich foods.
Growing heirloom vegetables at Crown Hill Farm is about honoring roots and celebrating a diversity of flavors, colors and textures. Two things Chef Eury Santana weaves together in his food. Inspired by a combination of his Brooklyn, NY upbringing and Dominican roots, Chef Eury brings loads of flavor, passion and creativity from outside the box to his meals.
Our young people are the future! We as chefs and farmers have to lead by example and keep paying it forward! I'm excited to announce that Chef Eury will be bringing some of his students from Niagara Falls Culinary Institute to help out. I think it's vital for them to get hands on experience and see something different especially when it comes to sustainability and locally farmed products.
In this physically distant, (yet socially fun) meal prepared by Chef Eury Santana, experience a menu highlighting the local food color of the season along with optional add-on wine pairings (for those over 21) poured by Alchemy Wine & Beer.
Bring along your friends or family to sit together and dine on this multi-course Farm-to-Table meal and enjoy the optional add-on wine pairings (for those over 21) poured by Alchemy Wine & Beer.
COME JOIN US FOR THIS CULINARY EXPERIENCE!
Relax into the evening, with the pleasure of deep nourishment, a satisfied body and full heart.
$95 INCLUDES:
Multi-Course Farm-To-Table Dinner & Farm Tour
Sunday, July 24th, 3:30-7pm @ Alchemy Wine & Beer, Hamburg (and Crown Hill Farm Tour)
AN ADDITIONAL $30 TO ADD-ON WINE PAIRINGS (21+)
***Note: When you order tickets, please have one person order for your entire party. You will be seated with your party in order to be mindful of COVID-19 precautions of the time. Groups need to be 2 or more. We don’t want to exclude single folks! Please message us if that is your case. More details will be sent via email closer to the event.
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About Chef Eury Santana: Eury first got into cooking when he visited his family in the Dominican Republic when he was a kid. He was really infatuated by all the fruits and vegetables that were grown on his grandparent’s family farm. There he was, a kid from Brooklyn who pretty much lived in a food dessert, seeing for the first time, things like Mangoes, tamarind, star fruit, jackfruit, Yucca, and Plantains. In that moment he knew food would play an important part in his life.
It should have been obvious Eury would eventually be a chef. He was the kid that preferred to stay in and watch cooking shows than go play outside. One of his favorite memories is when he decided to attempt his first ever recipe from the food network website. It was a bread pudding made with challah bread. He recalls, “ I didn’t know what the heck challah bread was and I needed to find out! I also didn’t know you could soak bread in milk; eggs, sugar and spices then bake it. It was truly tasty and fascinating!” Eager to learn and expand his knowledge, Eury continued to watch those cooking shows, experiment in the kitchen, and eat his way through New York City’s diverse food culture where he grew up.
Like many, Eury has taken the unconventional path into the food service industry. Initially, Eury set out to become a doctor. It wasn’t well into long years of schooling when he decided medicine just wasn’t it. He’s always known food was his passion and becoming a chef is what he wanted to do, but needed some guidance, a little push. With the support from friends, family and his lovely wife Eury was set to accomplish a long dream of his. Armed with determination and passion, he went on and enrolled at the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute. After Chef Eury graduated with a degree in culinary arts, his life was about to change forever. He met his mentor, two times James Beard semifinalist, Chef Victor Parra Gonzalez of Las Puertas. Eury became the sous chef and took Buffalo by storm- creating beautiful dishes influenced by Mexican and Latin American cuisine. He credits Chef Victor for the guidance he provided that had everything to do with making him the Chef he is today.
Now, Eury Santana is continuing to carve his own path. His approach is simple: Whatever it takes. Make good food! That’s it! With lots of Sabor! (FLAVOR!) Currently, Eury is a Chef Instructor as NFCI and a private chef. When he’s not doing either.. Catch him at one of his pop-ups or hosting brunch at Alchemy Wine & Beer.
Lastly, Eury wants to leave you with a few words. He says; “It’s never to late to leave your mark! I want to prove that there is no conventional path. Life will take many turns to get you to where you’re meant to be. It ok that you don’t go to culinary school right out of high school. Hell you don’t even have to go to culinary school at all. You can be a ‘late bloomer’ in this industry and still make an impact! Follow your heart and get cooking!”