Venture

05/15/2024

Foraging autumn olive blossoms for a fragrant, floral preserves that will taste like sweet Juicy Fruit gum

04/09/2024

Venture Culinary just rocked a 15-course epicurean adventure out of the park! This daring dinner was an auction item benefiting St. Lorenz Lutheran Church & School. We were thrilled to wow the winner’s guests with Chef Dietrich Bronner’s tour de force of a tasting menu! Changing the culinary landscape of Frankenmuth one dinner at a time!

03/07/2024

One week from today Venture Culinary will take on the 2024 Great Taste of Frankenmuth at the Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn Lodge! I'll be serving chiles en nogadas and blue cheese ice cream with black garlic-miso caramel in everything-bagel seasoned tarts as mentioned in this segment! Buy your tickets today!

Diners can taste 30 different Frankenmuth-area restaurants during the 31st Taste of Frankenmuth event.

02/22/2024

Mighty Team Venture is thrilled to present our offering for the Positive Results Downtown Saginaw Annual Ice Blast Chili Contest at this Saturday's Saginaw Spirit game! We're loading this batch up to blow minds and mouths with a flavor full of delight. We hope we earn your vote for your favorite chili chowdown in downtown. Swing in to the game and vote for us!

02/05/2024

1 week to go! Here is my Gold Medal-winning “Provençal Prawns and Petals” from last year’s American Culinary Federation - Flint-Saginaw Valley Chapter Chefs Competition. Come see what I’ll be cooking up at the February 12 event at Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn Lodge. Votes for favorite dish are welcome! Buy tickets now at https://www.acf-flint-saginaw.org/2024-hot-food-competition.html

02/02/2024

10 days until this American Culinary Federation - Flint-Saginaw Valley Chapter Food Compeition and the Top 10 reasons you need to attend:
1. 22+ amazing chefs competing, having fun, offering their best food!
2. Enjoy some of the best public eating all year! Join everyone who enjoys cooking and celebrating culinary excellence!
3. Support good food in the region so chefs continue their creativity and push the envelope for you!
4. Vote for your favorite chef and dish!
5. Huge dessert buffet in addition to over 30 dishes to try!
6. It’s inexpensive! Tickets should be around $75 or much more!
7. Proceeds benefit Families Against Narcotics Great Lakes Bay Region
8. Make us chefs sweat and see us under pressure as we cook for 400 guests! Don’t let this amazing food go to waste!
9. New spacious location at the Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn Lodge sponsored by Frankenmuth Fudge Kitchen, The Bread Gal, Frankenmuth Cheese Haus, Prost Wine Bar & Charcuterie
10. I’ll be cooking (Venture on!) with Jeremy Brookins and Jr. Chef Oliver!
Tickets at https://www.acf-flint-saginaw.org/2024-hot-food-competition.html

01/29/2024

Congratulations, fellow artists!

01/28/2024

Check out the Venture-sponsored snow sculpture by Hargash Artist Studio, Stephen Hargash & crew at Zehnder's Snowfest! Congrats to all!

01/23/2024

10/22/2023

Current chronicles in pastry with Chefs Autumn and Dietrich…

09/22/2023

Venture is booked for the season.

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, but Venture is no longer able to accept dates for 2023 into early 2024.

Thank you!

09/07/2023

Venture out with us to Saginaw Harvest Table this Sunday! Full menu below! A few tickets still available at (989) 753-9168. V Chefs Dietrich Bronner and Lance Buchinger are ready to rocket it out with a huge slew of other local talent (listed in the menu) we're honored to work with! Proceeds benefit Major Chords For Minors.

HERE'S THE ENTIRE MENU REVEALED FOR THIS YEAR'S SAGINAW HARVEST TABLE!!
If you don't yet have a ticket, you’re about to miss getting a seat at this Saginaw Harvest Table 2023. A perfect fall day featuring some of what's best in our community: beautiful food, delicious drinks, and soulful music shared on our own riverfront in Downtown Saginaw.
Don’t miss this meal! Call for Tickets at (989) 753-9168
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Happy Hour Hors d'oeuvres:
~ From Max Gould at Sushi Remix:
Baby Onigiri: rice, imitation crab, shrimp, nori, sesame seeds, yumyum sauce

~ From Lance Buchinger and Dietrich Bronner, at Venture Culinary:
Chile en Nogada - Beef stuffed peppers with walnut-cream cheese sauce and pomegranates

Happy Hour will include a pint pour from either Oracle Brewing Company (Causal Loop mosaic hopped IPA) or Bayne's Apple Valley (99 Problems But a Peach Ain’t One hard cider), and will accompanied with music by Andrew Kitzman and Major Chords For Minors.

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Dinner will be accompanied by music by Michael Brush.

Appetizer:
~ From Lonnie Paser, at Artisan Urban Bistro:
* Watermelon and beet carpaccio with crispy pancetta, pickled red onion, goat cheese, and balsamic drizzle

Paired with:
Green Dude - a dry apple cider made from Rhode Island Greening and McIntosh apples (from Oracle Brewing Company)

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Soup:
~ From Wanda Shapland, Juliana Jaye, and KC Simons, at Valerie's Downtown:
Wild mushroom and leek soup, garnished with a crispy lions mane mushroom and micro greens.

Paired with:
Sh’Inn Scottish ale (from Oracle Brewing Company)

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Salad:
~ From Tina Saycosie, at Pasong's:
Thai Salad: lettuce greens, cucumber, tomato, ground chicken, egg, cilantro, green scallions, with a Thai chili dressing.

Paired with: Lollipop Lollipop hard cider (from Bayne's Apple Valley)

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Entree:
~ From Jacob Austin, at Bavarian Inn:
Cajun Blackened Mako Shark with Grilled Pineapple Salsa, Chili Peach Caviar, Autumn Butternut Squash with Kale, Shiitake Mushroom Succotash.

Paired with:
Trigo Amigo - Belgian style wheat beer with chamomile, coriander, lemon and orange peel (from Oracle Brewing Company)

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Entree:
~ From Dietrich Bronner and Lance Buchinger, at Venture Culinary:
* Rock & Rye Pork, Peppy Poppy Pepper Crust, Pop Poached Pear and Agrodolce, Pickle Chow.
*Death by Celery - Celery Root Mash, Celery Salad with Celery Seed Vinaigrette, Celery Salted Root Chip, Celery Leaves
*Rye Thyme Molasses Bleu Cheese Ice Cream with Hot Honey Granola in Everything Seasoned Tart

Paired with:
Back in Blackberry hard cider (from Bayne's Apple Valley)

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Dessert:
~ From Austin, at The Bread Gal
Baked Caramel Meringue, filled with local Michigan apple compote, garnished with walnut brittle and creme fraiche

Paired with:
Apple Pie Moonshine Martini (from Old Town Distillery)

Hosted by Positive Results Downtown Saginaw
Proceeds benefit Positive Results Downtown Saginaw and Major Chords For Minors.

07/26/2023

Honored to cook for a special wedding at Frankenmuth Historical Museum's Fischer Hall! Chefs Autumn & Dietrich Bronner and Lance Buchinger put on an Italian-inflected menu in Little Bavaria. Thank you for the opportunity and thanks to growers Rolling Ridge Farms' Travis Tullio and Ingi's Wheatgrass & Microgreens!

07/22/2023

Rolling Ridge Farms hardneck garlic thanks Travis Tullio and fam

06/21/2023

Team V Chefs Bob Zehnder, Lance Buchinger and Dietrich Bronner had the honor cooking for a very special wedding rehearsal dinner at Frankenmuth's The Brownstone - a grazing table piled with gourmet food for nibbling at this elegant event! Thank you for choosing Venture!

05/07/2023

See you soon Jolly Pumpkin Pizzeria and Brewery Detroit!

Every kid deserves a childhood.

04/26/2023

We love cooking and (giving back to) community a big way, so bid BIG on our live auction offering at this Saturday's Legacy Ball Dachshund Derby at Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn Restaurant! We're donating a Biergarten Bonanza to be held at the Frankenmuth Lions Club's new Biergarten, featuring our heavy hors d'oeuvres as we lead you through a German pretzel making party for 25. We'll make your dream menu to enjoy with a keg of beer donated by Tiffany's Food and Spirits and music by Papa Kiszka and the Voortex Jazz and Blues Band as you break in the new Biergarten!

04/20/2023

3...2...1...!!! 3 wks / 21 days til Team Venture takes Little Caesars Arena at this amazing fundraiser for Love For A Child with Detroit, Michigan's most esteemed restaurants and chefs. (Just look at this list!) Gourmet takes on camp food, wine pairings and more on May 6, all proceeds benefiting foster children. We'll tease our dish soon! Frankenmuth's Culinary Crew Chefs Dietrich & Autumn Bronner, Lance Buchinger (Zehnder's of Frankenmuth) and Tyler Stark (Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn Restaurant) are honored to serve & ! Share the word, share the love, buy tickets at https://loveforachild.org/events/

3 weeks away! Join us for a special evening ft. Award winning chefs, wine pairings, and raising support for foster children! We have some amazing gifts to give out and special guests!

Buy tickets now at loveforachild.org/events

03/11/2023

Exactly 2 months until 5/11 our "little" Chef Big D is in "the D" with Team Venture Chefs Dietrich Bronner, Autumn Bronner, Lance Buchinger and Stark! We're so excited to be a part of this huge tasting event raising funds for Love For A Child. "Like" them and support/donate to their mission of helping foster children. Read more and buy your tickets to see us serving it up on the floor of Little Caesars Arena at https://loveforachild.org/events/ Thank you to Founder/Executive Director Joe Savalle for this incredible invite and belief in our little hometown Frankenmuth team joining the big league!

03/06/2023

BREAKING NEWS! Frankenmuth’s culinary crew Venture is set to cook it up for Detroit on May 11! We are tremendously thrilled, honored and humbled to be joining Detroit’s restaurant elite, at a world-class venue, for a fundraising cause that’s out of this world! We'll be in full force on the floor of Little Caesars Arena serving 500 guests benefiting Love For A Child. Mark your calendar, find more info and buy your tickets now at https://loveforachild.org/events/ Sponsorships are still available and we encourage all businesses to lend support! ***Tease, tease… We’ll announce our dish soon! Chefs Dietrich Bronner, Lance Buchinger, stark, and Bronner

🚨 🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT! We are so exited to announce the first ever EAT. DRINK. LOVE | A Love for a Child Event! Hosted at on May 11th, come experience 15 of Michigan’s Award Winning chefs, crafted cocktails, and wine! This event will raise support directly for our states’s most overlooked group of kids that we are honored to serve, foster care children. ♥️

To learn more, buy tickets or sponsor the event, please visit loveforachild.org/events (link in bio).

Major THANK YOU to CommonSail Investment Group and O’Brien Construction Company for contributing our first $100,000 sponsorship!!

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!

With Love,
Love for a Child