Summer House 2024

Edible San Luis Obispo Summer House Photo for 2024

The Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo Summer House is a celebration of all things culinary as we bring the pages of the magazine to life at the beautiful La Lomita Ranch. This curated, multi-day gathering of experiences is an opportunity to try one-time-only food collaborations, cooking classes, farm shares, dinner parties, media meet-and-greets with Edible staff, chef’s tables and more, enjoying it all – together.

Proceeds from the Summer House benefit Family Care Network.

Event Listings

Sunday, July 28

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Ice Cream Social Summer Issue Celebration

2pm - 4pm

The iconic Harmony Valley Creamery ice cream truck will run the party to kick off the Summer House, featuring exclusive one-time-only ice cream collaborations with beloved local brands like Paso Almonds and Chaparral Gardens, and a 21+ treat: the Calwise Spirits Co whiskey ice cream pour over. Enjoy Paso Robles Distillery Trail and Yes Cocktail Co cocktails, Cellar Fermentation beer and food stations by Edible staff picks Bear City Social, Pono Pacific Kitchen, SLO Provisions and Wayward Baking, for an afternoon of celebrating all who made the Edible Magazine summer issue possible.

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EnjoySLO Presents: A Legacy Dinner

5:30pm - 7:30pm

EnjoySLO is proud to present the “Legacy Dinner”, a unique culinary event showcasing the remarkable talents and diverse flavors of leaders in the BIPOC culinary space. Four of this year’s James Beard Legacy Network cohorts are coming together to create a meal showcasing flavors from around the world. The participating culinary team includes Phu ‘David’ Ho, Likitha Gali, local favorite Candice Custodio – founder of Club SupSup and Michelle Barrera – owner of EnjoySLO

Monday, July 29

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Thai Cooking Class by Sister Kitchen Thai

12pm - 1:30pm

Each region of Thailand offers its own unique dishes and flavors. From noodle dishes to white rice-based, from strictly vegetables to incorporating meat, it is all dependent on regionality and availability of resources. At this cooking class by Sister Kitchen Thai, gain an understanding of the food’s origins and its popularity in America, while learning to prepare 3 -4 authentic Thai dishes. Brecon Estate wines and nonalcoholic beverages are included.

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Pitch the Journalist

1:30pm - 2:30pm

These one-on-one sessions for area businesses or individuals to sit with an Edible San Luis Obispo Magazine journalist are an opportunity to pitch your story idea. We at the magazine know there is always a story to uncover, and we want to discover it. There are no participation fees, and no requirements around how long someone’s been in business, what the business or idea focuses on, or even whether or not the business is yet formally in place. We just want to hear the stories worth telling. Brecon Estate wines and nonalcoholic beverages are included.

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Chocolate + Tea Experience

2pm - 3:30pm

Tastes of five distinctive, ethically sourced chocolate desserts, featuring a range of flavor notes — from fudgy to fruit. An opportunity for guests to expand and refine palates while learning specialized techniques and specific vocabulary to identify tasting notes. A fun chocolate adventure led by breda pasticceria and cioccolateria. This tasting will be accompanied by a choice of curated teas by Jennifer de Tréglodé of Inari Tea and Art Experiences, tea sommelier, to further enhance each bite. Brecon Estate wines also included. 

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The Editor’s Dinner

5pm - 7pm

Hosted by Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo’s Managing Editor Aja Goare, this distinctly vegetarian meal showcasing produce from Windrose Farm and Babe Farms will be thoughtfully paired with La Lomita Wines. Prepared and paired by Edible’s in-house chef and recipe developer Rachel Ponce of Pair With and Frunchroom, with special tastings of Proof & Gather Baking Company breads, SLO Olive oils, Etto’s fresh pasta and Brown Butter Cookie Company treats. Dinner guests will enjoy live screen printing by The Bunker SLO for customized Edible Magazine totes.

Tuesday, July 30

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“Use My Kitchen, Tell Your Story” Peruvian Lunch

12:30pm - 2:30pm

An intimate, Peruvian cuisine lunch with storytelling by Chef Jhackeline Catalena Vargas of COYA, featured in Edible Magazine’s Fall 2023 issue, who immigrated to California four short years ago. The menu is designed to show the dimensions of Peru: coast, mountains and jungle. And just as important as the food, is Peruvian ritual, which guests will partake in. Wine is also included.

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Kids’ Mediterranean Mezze Cooking Class

12:30pm - 2pm

Led by Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo writer and cooking instructor Zoe Elliot Shaw, young cooks (8 years or older) will prepare a Mediterranean feast of sourdough bread and homemade hummus, celebrate local vegetable harvest by making crudite and cucumber roll ups featuring ingredients from Babe Farms, and sample Zoe’s falafel! Guests will also enjoy a sweet send off.

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Yelp Elite Event: Summertime Happy Hour Social

3pm - 5pm

Hosted by Yelp, Yelp Elite Squad members are invited to partake in an exclusive look at the Summer House while imbibing on a bounty provided by some of the most highly rated restaurants, wineries and distilleries in San Luis Obispo County including Club SupSup, Orale Taqueria, Jeffry’s Wine Country BBQ, Black Market Cheese Co., LXV Wine, Booker Wines, Tin City Distillery and Central Coast Distillery.

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Cookout on the Ranch

5pm - 7pm

Enjoy a summertime cookout among friends. A BBQ spread complete with all the fixins by Oak and Vine – cooked onsite, outdoors on the Santa Maria oak pit grill – will be offered throughout the evening to eat at leisure. Rod and Hammer’s mobile whiskey wagon and Wild Horse Winery’s pop up wine bar will serve drinks. The Harmony Valley Creamery ice cream truck will be serving their signature sweet treats. Attendees can create a unique spice blend at Monkey Spit Hot Sauce’s blending station, and partake in customizing a bespoke hat of one’s own at the hat bar while taking in live bluegrass music.

Wednesday, July 31

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Farmers Feast and Farm Share Lunch

11am - 1pm

A celebration of the people who keep this county fed – the farmers. This ‘thank you’ lunch for the farmers, alongside all of those who appreciate their hard work, will showcase a sustainable, farm-to-table meal by Lido Restaurant at Dolphin Bay, and wines by My Favorite Neighbor. The event will include a farm share: guests can bring some of their own crop to share, so everyone leaves with a bag full of a variety of produce. Starter produce will be provided by Windrose Farm and Babe Farms

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Botanical Infused Jam Workshop

1pm - 2:30pm

Led by Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo’s digital producer and owner of Christiana’s Preserves, Christiana Christensen will guide a jam workshop creating a fruit and herb infused jam. Enjoy an afternoon of learning the ins and outs and all the fun science of canning and jam making, get down to what herbs and flowers pair well with different fruits in jams, and take in a demo by Christiana showcasing her perfected technique as she shares her tried and tested recipes – that you’ll get to help make. Light bites, Sinor-LaVallee Wines and nonalcoholic beverages are included. Leave with a personalized jam-making cookbook to take home.

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In The Kitchen with Brigit Binns

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Cookbook author and Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo writer Brigit Binns, fresh off the launch of her recently released memoir Rottenkid, joins us to lead a demonstration and tasting of three quick, no-cook summer sauces from around the Med: Italian Salsa Verde, Moroccan Charmoula and French Aioli, using the handy food processor. Also featuring Proof & Gather Baking Company breads. Following the demo enjoy a Sinor-LaVallee wine social with the celebrated author.

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Closing Night Dinner

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Big things are being planned for the Summer House’s last hoorah, the Closing Night Dinner! This meal will feature the work of Chef Jacob Burrell, Executive Chef at Niner Wine Estates. Before joining us in wine country, he has worked at top restaurants Manresa (2 Michelin stars), Post Ranch Inn and Big Sur Bakery. He spent a number of years working at Parachute Bali – a bakery, farm and restaurant in Indonesia. While there, he managed to compete, and win, Iron Chef Indonesia. With a background like that, and with no instructions other than ‘the sky’s the limit’, this is a dinner for the food-loving adventurer. 

Ongoing Activations

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Pop Up Tea Lounge

The Inari Tea lounge transports you to the cozy tea rooms of Asia where hospitality, community and connection flow as abundantly as the tea. Come experience beautiful wild living tea brewed and served skillfully and artistically in the traditional gong fu style by Tea Sommelier Jennifer de Treglode. Book your twenty minute experience. 

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Give/Get Wall

Visit the Give/Get freestanding wall thanks to Dewhite Duo Rentals where guests can post a note on the ‘give’ side, to state something they’re able to gift to a fellow guest, and/or post a note on the ‘get’ side, for something they need. Take part in the opportunity for our community to help one another in an easy, no-pressure way. 

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Flower Cart

Purchase fresh cut or dried locally-sourced flowers at the flower cart, anytime throughout the Summer House, thanks to Idlewild Floral Company and Niner Wine Estateshorticulturalist, Fiona Bond. 

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Honey Hut

Featured in the Spring 2023 issue of Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo, Sierra Honey Farm will host a honey cart with local honey for purchase anytime throughout the Summer House. 

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Art Installation

Edible Magazine illustrators, artists, designers and friends come together to present public art installations throughout the Summer House.

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Produce Stand

Access fresh, delicious and local fruits and vegetables at the produce stand, for purchase anytime throughout the Summer House thanks to Windrose Farm

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Market! Market!

Stop by the market filled with beloved local food goodies from vinegars and olive oils, to jams and spices. Shop before, during, or immediately after daily events. 

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Backyard Games

Take in leisurely summer afternoons and evenings playing cornhole and other backyard games in the Oak Courtyard.

Partner Shout Outs

Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo is proud to source locally from farmers, ranchers, wineries, purveyors and makers who are providing the supplies to keep the Summer House powered. 

Avenales Ranch Beef – Babé Farms – FABLERUNE – Idlewild Floral –
Molnar Cattle Beef by the Beach – My Favorite Neighbor –
Proof and Gather Baking Company – SLO Olive – Wild Horse Winery – Windrose Farm

And we are thankful for our event production partners who have made pulling off the impossible – possible.

Amanda Holder Events – La Lomita Ranch – Alpha Lit – Avenue Twelve –
Butlerz Event Rentals – Coast Union HS Printing – Criu Hospitality –
DeWhite Duo Rentals – HoneyJo Creative Co – Kramer Events