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Windward Adventures is the Pacific Northwest's premier backcountry dining service. We provide unique
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09/03/2024

Our famous smoked & grilled chicken with marinated green beans and an anchovy caper salsa rustica. A truly summery dish.
We’ll be grilling next on Lummi Island for our three day crabbing trip next week. Two spots left for an unforgettable all-inclusive weekend. September 13-15.
Link in the bio. Come feast with us!

08/30/2024

September 20-22
Trout Lake, WA
Join us for a weekend of white water rafting!! Oh, and lava tubes, wine country, late-summer farm dinners, cave spelunking, and relaxing at the base of Mount Adams. We have rented out a whole farm in Trout Lake, WA with a large lodge and four adjacent glamping tents for a comfortable two-night stay. The farm is equiped with a outdoor bath house, a hot tub, fresh produce, an outdoor kitchen, and many places for fun lawn games. We will be located 11 miles from the whitewater rafting put-in along the White Salmon River. We’ll enjoy a 4 hour rafting experience.

This trip is in the beautiful Hood River/White Salmon area with incredible views of Mt. Adams, Mt. Hood, the Multnomah Falls, the Columbia River, and the White Salmon River. Join our three-day adventure and stay for a few more days to explore on your own! Our guides will hook you up with all the local hot spots.

This trip is all-inclusive and one of a kind. Celebrate summer with a private chef, a private guide, a private raft, and a private glamping tent/lodge room. You’re worth it!

Link in our bio.

08/16/2024

Join us for a huge community dinner out next Saturday August 24th from 5-8pm.

In collaboration with The Nudge Seattle, we are setting a long table for up to 150 Seattle area locals and would love to have you join us!

Farm food, farmer led tour, pop up wine shop from , lawn games, and new friends!

Check out the link in our bio for more info and tickets.

Our menu -
Smoked eggplant with cucumber salsa and sourdough

Grilled Ecolibrium zucchini with chicken broth beans, basil, brown butter, olives, and lemon.

Green salad from Ecolibrium with ginger dressing, beets and shaved farm vegetables

Windward ‘s famous chicken with smoked potato sauce, caramelized lemons, and creme fraiche

Cookie plates

See ya on the farm! ✌🏻

08/09/2024

Just picked up some gorgeous halibut for our Lummi Island Crab Adventure this weekend. The first night is a welcome dinner full of seasonal deliciousness at our island lodge and the second night is a crab feast on the beach thanks to the amazing (our Lummi trip advisor!)

Here is a halibut tartare with gems, citrus dressing, green coriander, and nasturtium. We’ll be serving the rest tomorrow night at our sold out weekend roasted with lemon brown butter, chanterelles, and roasted early tomatoes. Summer is here!

We still have a few tickets for our September version of this Lummi crab trip. Link in our bio! 🦀☀️

08/02/2024

LAST CHANCE - Crabbing on Lummi Island next weekend. A three day island adventure filled with boats, beaches, remote islands, fossil hunting, crab class, crab boil and luxury accommodations. All for $925. 😎

2 spots August 9-11
4 spots September 13-15
Link in bio!

07/22/2024

Friday August 16th - Paella on a Tugboat! My darling Arthur Foss is welcoming us aboard for a dock side paella dinner. Wine pairings included and provided by sweet Celia . This buffet style party is a great way to gaze at the water and eat delicious seafood. We love summer and we love YOU! 💕 ☀️

Our menu:
Grilled pan con tomate with optional jamon and/or anchovies
Spanish cheese, olives, and cold bar-style tapas

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Paella de Mariscos with Washington clams, mussels, crab, and imported shrimp
made with soffrito, our seafood stock, saffron, and lemon.

Insalata Verde with fennel and orange zest
Crusty bread
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Chilled melon and WA fruit

* wine pairing included as well as additional purchases day off.*

07/15/2024

☀️Picnic on the Canal ALERT☀️
Thursday July 25th
4:00p - 7:00p
Celia and I are back at it for a summery picnic at along the Fremont canal.

This time we’re doing a classic summer Nicoise Salad with Washington Albacore tuna. As always, we’ll have blankets available if you don’t have yours. Your picnic includes a bottle of wine from . Find the link in our bio!

Our Menu
Baguette with Fromage Fort butter

A complete Nicoise Salad for two consisting of Washington Albacore tuna, poached potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, olives, egg, artichokes, a dijon heavy french vinaigrette

Almond sable cookies

And a bottle of WINE. Choose from red, white or sparkling and Celia will curate something delicious.

07/13/2024

turns 2 today from 2-9pm

Join us for free snacks 3-7p
Sweets from
throwing down some tunes
-AND-
A whole street full of vendors!

Come on down to Georgetown! gringos will be in grill! will tell you a dad joke or two.

07/08/2024

We cook a lotttttttt of vegetables for our dinners. We have so many fabulous farms in the area, it’s hard not too. Surprisingly, however, our grilled chicken inevitably gets the most praise at the table. Some folks think chicken is a boring option when they read it on a restaurant menu, but I very much disagree. A perfectly cooked chicken is a thing of beauty.

We salt our butchered birds overnight uncovered to dry out the skin. The tender breasts are left on the bone to help buffer the heat. We either lightly smoke them before roasting, or grill them on our grill. The breasts never go over 150 and the legs go to 165 or so. The breast meat rests for as long as we can before carving and the results are a perfectly seasoned, juicy, smokey birds. They don’t really need much else, but I did just serve them with spiced yogurt, charred zucchini, and saffron butter, so….

Join us!

07/06/2024

New date added! Dinner atop Poo Poo Point Sunday August 18th 3pm-6:30pm. Issaquah, WA.

We added a second date because our first one sold out so quickly! Our Poo Poo Point event is a guided strenuous hike up to a mountain top dinner! Paraglide off after dinner if you wish, or just watch fliers take off from the table.

Ticket link in our bio! 🪂

07/02/2024

Strawberry season! Can’t get enough. This is a fig leaf panna cotta with some really juicy babies on top. Most of our events include some dope seasonal desserts. Come eat ‘em! 🔥

Event links in bio.

06/28/2024

Heading to Mt. Rainier National Park today! Did you know that you can hire and I for your private group? We have a free pass to that park and know a thing or two. Book us for all your mountain fun! ❤️❤️

06/24/2024

A lovely brunch today. Thank you to all who came and donated. We raised over $1000 for World Central Kitchen. What a beautiful day. Thank you to for donations and hard work. Thank you for all your badass help as well. ❤️

Pictured:
1. Seven-minute egg with asparagus, onions and bearnaise sauce.
2. Butter-fried poached eggs with morels and braised greens
3. Potato gratin with duck confit and an over easy egg
4. Grilled French toast
❤️

06/17/2024

We cook a lot of fish over the course of a Windward summer. Washington state and our Alaskan neighbors have some of the most beautiful salmon. It took time to get to know each different type, how it cooked best, and the ecological impact of serving such a beautiful and wild species. I struggle now to put king salmon on a menu, considering how important they are to the balance of our ocean-dwelling ecosystem. We cook sockeye gently, coho whole on the grill with boosting flavors, and keta with all the chef tricks we have (a little smoke?! Definitely brown butter). We just served up some perfect sous vide sockeye last night. Seasoned with only salt and olive oil, adding nothing to interfere with it’s almost cucumber like freshness.

This post isn’t really looking to sell anything. It’s more just a love note to salmon. Dang. I missed em. Ok fine, I’ll sell something. I’m doing a fundraiser brunch this Sunday. All profits go to World Central Kitchen. There are still tickets and you can find them in our bio. No salmon, but smoked cod. Gosh, don’t get me started on cod!

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06/12/2024

It’s time to get those grills out! We still have tickets available for several of our events and three day food and adventure trips. Check ‘em out via the link in our bio. Let us feed you delicious food, like this inspired rockfish!

05/28/2024

Join us for brunch on Sunday June 23rd at 11:30a or 1:30p . All profits will be donated to World Central Kitchen- - who is providing meals and humanitarian aid to those in need in Palestine, Ukraine, and many other countries around the world. WCK chefs enter extremely dangerous conditions to ensure that the most vulnerable are fed and nourished. Brunch tickets are $70 a person for three-courses. Please note we can only offer very minor dietary adjustments.

Once you have secured your tickets, our team will contact you to take your pre-order. This will allow us to minimize potential food waste in solidarity with our chefs at WCK.

Please join us for a beautiful day of good food, delicious beverages, and support for an incredible cause. It takes a village. Thank you. 🤍

05/24/2024

Next Friday! Celia and I will be channeling our inner aunties to host a singles wine mingle! No, you don’t have to be single to enjoy this party, but considering how many picnics-for-two we host in the summer, we thought we’d show our singles some love too!

$20 single varietal wine tasting
A la carte snacks priced separately.
Our mingle friendly food menu:
- Spiced chicken skewers with roasted peppers and whipped tahini $15
- Smoked cod rillette with celery, radish, and crostini $15
- Chèvre Chaud (breaded and baked herby chèvre) with grilled onions, arugula, prosciutto, and crostini $15
- Cardamom Panna Cotta with strawberry rhubarb cheesecake cream $10

No need to reserve. Come hang with us next Friday to make new connections (romantic or otherwise)! 🤍

05/17/2024

Our multi-day trips do not only center around outdoor adventure. They secretly revolve around food! Each trip is coordinated by your personal chef who is there to make your mornings sweet and your evenings satiating. All of our trips have lodging and meals included. Some ask how we keep our all-inclusive trip prices so low. Ultimately, it’s because of our guiding ethos - people over profit. Always!

Spots still available:
Camp Muir Hike
Lummi Island Crabbing Adventure
Rafting in the Gorge

Link in our bio!

05/12/2024

The clear mountain view today has me thinking about our summer trips up to Paradise. We are offering two guided day hikes to Camp Muir at the end of June. The trip is complete with lodging in Ashford and full service meals cooked just for you. Feel intimidated about the trip? Please don’t! Trust us! We have a full training schedule to get you ready to rock and roll. Come have a life changing experience with us. See why we love Rainier so so much. Link in the bio, mountain babes.

04/24/2024

THIS SUNDAY 11am-2pm Three spots left for our Fire Cooking Class: Transforming Vegetables. Forget hamburgers, I’ll show you how to make produce shine for your next BBQ. This class will take place at hearth! Can’t make it? There’s another one next weekend too! Link in our bio.

Grilled sourdough with quick-smoked burrata and spring pea relish
Grilled gem salad with smokey carrots and pickled kumquats
Direct grilling – smoking – post roasting smoking

Ember-roasted butternut squash and onions with slivered almond salsa verde
Ember roasting

Charred green mole dip with beet and ground lamb fritters
(vegetarian version available)
Homemade flatbread
Direct flame charring – cast iron frying

Smokey eggplant schnitzel with creamy spinach, preserved tomato, and Parmigiano Reggiano
Direct flame charring – cast iron frying - dutch oven cooking

Charred lemon shandies

04/19/2024

Just added! Dinner in an Apple Orchard with on Friday July 18th. We’ll be kicking off Vashon Island’s Strawberry Festival with a multi-course meal and cider pairings. Join us as we grill up island-grown vegetables, celebrate Vashon’s history of strawberry production, and enjoy farm-fermented ciders. We’ll conclude with plenty of time to enjoy a night filled of musical and downtown festival fun. The menu, details, and tickets can be found on our website. The link is in our bio! See you at the orchard.

04/06/2024

Sunday April 28th. 11-2pm. Our first fire cooking class of 2024! Hosted . This one will focus on transforming vegetables with fire! $145 for class and lunch. We’ll light the fire, smoke, grill, ember roast, cast iron fry, and use a dutch oven. Check out the menu and grab tickets on our website or at the link in our bio. See ya there!

04/03/2024

Grilled garlicky flatbread with aerated Boursin potato purée, wild mushrooms and bonito. A great farewell to winter as we look to lighter flavors in honor of spring…

04/03/2024

Thank you for such an emphatic response to our 2024 events. Our July 7th Dinner atop Poo Poo has only 4 tickets left. 🔥 Did you know that this year we added an option to paraglide off the cliff after dinner? Let us know if you want that add on. Book em while ya can still cook em, buds!

04/02/2024

Happy to announce that our 2024 EVENTS ARE LIVE! These events take about three months to come alive and when I finalize each one and input it to the website, I can’t help but feel a little teary eyed. These events distill all the beauty I see in this life: good food, new friends, challenging adventures, and great exploration. I hope that you will join us, or at least recommend us to your friends.

I’d also like to introduce Liz Pachaud, , who we are lucky enough to have signed on as our resident guide. Liz might be the most inspiring human I have ever met. Her credentials are enormous, but just to give you a taste, she’s currently taking lessons for her helicopter pilots license TO RESCUE our du*****es when we get stranded on a snowy mountain! Liz is the best, a fully-certified guide, and will run our Camp Muir treks, all of our Intro to Backpacking courses, and beyond. This party-hardy chef can’t wait for some reasonable structure to float into this lawless enterprise.

Please join us. We love these events. We love our community. We love this state. Let us show you why!

Links are up in that bio, baby!

03/25/2024

TONIGHT! 5-9P Fire food . We thought Monday would be the perfect time to bring you some warm cuddly fire food and vibrant arresting wines. Where else can you gaze at a fire while eating aerated potatoes on flatbread and seafood boudin? Someone told me last night they felt like they were in Montreal. I’ll take it. We have a whole a la carte menu just waiting for you.

01/05/2024

Tomorrow Saturday 1/6 3:00pm-6:30pm I’ll be slinging snacks at the artist reception celebrating .ceramics and . Join all of us for free food, drinks for purchase, artist talk at 5pm, and spectacular art. Thanks to 🤍

Menu:
- Tapas plate: Grilled piquillos stuffed with tuna, jamon, grilled bread and hazelnuts
- Cheesy churro swirls
- Smoked carrots with grilled onion and saffron risotto

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http://www.windwardadventures.com/

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Windward style breakfast. Baby broccoli, last year’s red peppers, charred potatoes, poached egg and bearnaise sauce. (Pssst: I think that the breakfasts are a shining highlight of our multi-day trips. Treatcho self!) ☀️

It’s prime fire food season. Buckwheat crepes on the plancha never disappoint! Our 2022 events are all posted on the website. Check ‘em out.

Welp, the holidays are here y’all. If you need a holiday gathering space for you and your homies,check out our Dinner in the Cabin winter offering. Half the dates are booked, but not all of them! Pop on the site and bring up to 10 people to a wood-fired island dinner getaway. Booking now through February. 🖖🏻