The Cafe at Wyebrook Farm will open again for the season on Friday, April 26, with an exciting new menu featuring sandwiches, salads and more! Items will be prepared using Wyebrook meat products, locally made cheese and locally grown produce. Guests will order through a barn window and then enjoy their meal in the barn’s courtyard area with picnic tables and panoramic views of the farm’s bucolic pastures.
The Cafe will be open Fridays from 2 until 6 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.
“Spring is a great time of year at the farm and I’m thrilled to reopen our Cafe, where guests can see—and taste—for themselves what a difference sustainable farming makes,” says Dean Carlson, a hands-on farmer who opened the 355-acre oasis of sustainable agriculture last spring after months of restoration. “Getting close to your food really allows you to appreciate the quality and freshness, and one of my greatest joys here at the farm is welcoming visitors who want to learn more about what they’re eating and why it’s important.”
Carlson has developed relationships with some of the area’s best chefs who serve his top quality meats at their restaurants. To help create the new Cafe menu, he tapped two of the very best, Chef Josh Lawler of Philadelphia’s Farm and Fisherman, and Chef Jonathan Adams, who most recently was executive chef Philadelphia’s Pub & Kitchen. Chef Lawler developed the menu, and Chef Adams will work with Wyebrook Chef Michael Baver to help implement the menu and oversee operations in the cafe. New menu items at the Cafe will include:
Cheese Plate—a selection of three different local cheeses with dried fruit and candied pecans
Macaroni Salad with spring vegetables
Garden Salad with lettuce picked from the farm’s garden, pickled grapes, slices of granny smith apples, candied pecans and blue cheese crumble served with a whole grain mustard vinegar dressing
Sliders—mini barbecued pulled pork sandwich with pickled cabbage, mini beef and bacon burger with a cherry bomb and a mini beef burger topped with pickle, all served with a side of French fries
Soft Shell Tacos, with a choice of either Chorizo or Pork Tongue, served three per order with a side of salsa verde
Open-Face Egg Salad Sandwich with wild watercress and a side of fries
House-made Sausage Sandwich with sautéed peppers and onions, broccoli rabe and a side of fries
Pulled Pork Sandwich—braised pork shoulder smothered in barbecue sauce with mixed vegetables and a side of fries
Wyebrook Burger, topped with a mix of garden fresh lettuce, pickled cherry tomato, house made pickles and an onion ring and served with a side of fries
Guests are encouraged to stop by for a meal; enjoy a tour of the farm on Carlson’s hay-bed truck at 12 noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays; and purchase meat, eggs, cheese, produce and more from Wyebrook and other area farms to bring home as the week’s groceries.
Wyebrook Farm is located at 150 Wyebrook Road, in Honey Brook; phone: (610) 942-7481. Wyebrook Farm can also be followed on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Photo Credit to Jason Varney.
