Private Dinners at Blackwood

Your table. Our farm. An evening unlike anywhere else.

Gather your people for an unforgettable meal in the field, where the menu begins in the soil and ends at a shared table.

Private dinners at Blackwood are intimate, chef-led dining experiences shaped by the land, the season, and the people gathered around the table. Set among the fields and gardens of our Hempstead farm, each dinner offers an opportunity to step away from the city, slow down, and experience food closer to its source.

Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, milestone, gathering friends, entertaining clients, or simply looking for a reason to bring your favorite people together, we’ll help create an evening that feels distinctly yours—and distinctly Blackwood.

From Our Fields to Your Table

At Blackwood, dinner begins long before anyone takes a seat.

It begins with healthy soil. With seeds planted months before the first course is served. With farmers tending the fields, harvesting what is ready, and allowing the season to help determine what comes next.

Our private dinner menus are developed around what is growing at Blackwood alongside thoughtfully sourced ingredients from local producers. The result is a meal rooted in a particular place and moment in time—one that could only happen here, in this season.

Guests have an opportunity to experience that story firsthand, surrounded by the landscape that helped produce their meal.

A Dinner Designed Around You

No two gatherings need to look exactly alike.

We work with each host to create an experience suited to the occasion, from intimate celebrations among friends and family to private dinners for organizations, clients, and teams.

Depending on the season and your gathering, your evening may include a welcome on the farm, time to explore the grounds, a thoughtfully set table among the gardens or fields, and a multi-course meal inspired by the harvest.

The details may change. The philosophy doesn’t: good food, thoughtful hospitality, and enough time to actually enjoy the people sitting across from you.

The Blackwood Table

Sharing meals has been part of Blackwood from the beginning.

For decades, this land has brought people together to grow, cook, learn, and eat. Around our tables, food becomes a way to understand the landscape differently—to recognize the soil, water, farmers, cooks, seasons, and ecosystems behind something as familiar as dinner.

A private dinner carries that tradition forward.

It is a celebration, certainly. But it is also an invitation to experience the relationship between healthy land and good food in perhaps the best way possible: by tasting it.

Gather Here

Celebrate something important. Bring together people who should know one another better. Mark a milestone. Thank your team. Or gather simply because sharing an extraordinary meal is reason enough.

Tell us a little about your occasion, your guests, and what you have in mind. Our team will work with you to begin shaping your evening at Blackwood.