ABOUT ADVENTURE DINNER
Adventure Dinner is a woman-owned, queer-friendly events and catering company based in Colchester, Vermont. Our mission is to highlight and support Vermont farms, producers, and small businesses through family-style dining and community events.
We’re well known for our long-table farm dinners, which have been featured in Travel + Leisure, Food + Wine, Imbibe, The Washington Post, and NBC’s 1st Look.
In addition to our sell-out ticketed dinners, Adventure Dinner also offers catering for private events! We create bespoke farm-to-table drink and culinary menus for each celebration and offer full-service catering and professional bartending services along with drop-off options.
We love a celebration and bring the Vermont lens as we cater weddings, rehearsal dinners, corporate events, holiday parties, birthdays—anything that deserves a local VT touch.
New this fall, Adventure Dinner opened the doors for our private event venue, The Clubhouse! This newly minted space features three rooms: The Loft, an open-plan, flexible space for up to 75 folks, The Library, a cozy bar and lounge for up to 30, and the Green Room, a lush private dining space for up to 18 folks seated.
Our Team
Sas Stewart
Founder
Sas Stewart is a serial entrepreneur passionate about creating spaces that foster joy, acceptance and celebration—a pursuit she has manifested over her 20 years in hospitality.
She was named Imbibe Magazine’s 75 inspiring people influencing the way you’ll drink in 2023, and her projects have been featured in Travel and Leisure, Martha Stewart Living, Food and Wine, Outside Magazine, Sift, Bloomberg, Better Homes and Gardens and other publications.
Before launching Adventure Dinner, Sas was the co-founder of the award-winning distillery Stonecutter Spirits and Highball Social (cocktail bar).
She is a graduate of the SBA Emerging Leaders program, and holds a B.A in English from the University of Michigan and a M.S. in Sustainable Planning and Development from Pratt Institute.
Lauren Hayes
Director of Operations
Before moving to Vermont in the summer of 2021, Lauren Hayes was the General Manager and Wine Director for the award winning restaurant Pammy’s in Cambridge, MA, earning numerous Best Restaurant accolades and a nod as a Top 50 Best New Restaurant in Bon Appetit. Her wine program featured small production, natural wines that could convert the most classic palettes to the additive-free cause.
While Lauren offers professional, detail-oriented hospitality, her approach is first and foremost one of spreading joy. She is excited to create memorable, magical experiences with Adventure Dinner and their many spectacular Vermont collaborators.
Lauren is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds a BA with academic honors in Painting. She never did take the WSET Certification (you can ask her why) but has been an educator at the Commonwealth School of Wine and featured in wine columns in the Boston Globe, Improper Boston, Boston Magazine, Travel & Leisure, and Sevenfifty Daily.
eric hodet
EXECUTIVE CHEF
Eric Hodet is a born-and-raised Vermonter and lifelong chef, having entered the restaurant industry at age 13. After graduating from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and studying food, wine, and agriculture across Italy, Eric returned to Vermont to work in a wide range of culinary environments: from burgers and fries to barbecue, casual comforts to fine dining.
In 2022, Eric led the team at Burlington's Cafe Mamajuana to recognition by the James Beard Foundation as a semifinalist for Best New Restaurant.
Through the challenges a life of foodservice work can bring, Eric continues to find joy in the endless creative opportunities that food can provide, paradoxically holding equal love for both whole animal utilization and thoughtfully prepared plant-based dishes.
