Boxes from London Plane? Yes, please.
Image: Olivia Brent
What The London Plane has done for dining in Pioneer Square—applying its elegant natural aesthetic across a spectrum of domestic pleasures, flowers and gifts to kitchenwares and country-house backdrop and, yes, food—it now does for the humble community-supported agriculture box.
Only they’re not calling it that, presumably because of aforementioned rutabaga associations. The London Plane’s is called the Larder Share. It’s a weekly collection of good stuff from LP’s kitchen, grocery, bakery, flower, and wine shops to arrive at your doorstep (or get picked up by you) once a week from April 22 to October 28. It costs $2,500, which breaks down to 28 weeks at a little over $89 per week.
Every box will contain a loaf of the London Plane’s exceptionally flavorful and enchantingly “wet” sourdough bread, a bottle of wine from the Bar Ferd’nand people, and two or three items from a farmer or forager along with recipes for using them. After that it’s different every week, where they’ll throw in a couple of other treasures: a cookbook, perhaps, with spices/packaged goods needed to cook chef-owner Matt Dillon’s or his longtime deputy Emily Crawford’s favorite recipe inside it, or a dozen eggs, or clafouti batter with cherries, or a ready-to-cook cassoulet, or some table linens, or perhaps a fresh flower arrangement.
Subscribers will additionally have access to the London Plane’s lineup of classes, dinners, and talks, along with lunch for two there once a month, on the house (not including tax, tip, or wine).
And those who subscribe by the last day of March? All the above plus two spots at one of the London Plane’s food or floral classes, taught by Dillon and his flower shop coconspirator, Katherine Anderson, respectively.
This is a good one.
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