The burger experts at Fat Cow will hit the one-shot restaurant game next Saturday with their first major foray into pop-up dinners.
Chef and owner Doug Hosford will team up with Jackson-based pop-up restaurant Stäge for a seven-course dinner based around the theme of comfort food. Courses will include an amuse-bouche of grilled oyster with goat cheese and Vidalia onion soubise, a “fowl” course of roasted rock hen with cauliflower and rutabaga purée and pan gravy, dessert of king cake bread pudding and other offerings.
The menu was created in collaboration with Stäge’s chef Tom Ramsey, a longtime friend of Hosford from his time in Mississippi.
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“Like most great menus when you get a couple chefs together, you get together, have a beer and just start writing stuff down,” Hosford says. “[We think about] what sounds good, what’s in season, what we’ve seen lately.”
Looking to break the format of his burger restaurant, Hosford searched for a venue typically closed for dinner in a “fun part of town” and landed on Simple Joe Cafe and Confectionary on Government Street to host the pop-up.
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Hosford has 20 years of fine dining expertise under his belt and experience in everything from gourmet kitchens to his own catering company, and since opening Fat Cow, he’s been eager to show diners his food isn’t just greasy spoon fare. Pop-up dinners like these, he says, give him a chance to have some fun and show he can handle gourmet.
“I like being able to get people together, cook for them, get feedback,” Hosford says on the upcoming event and the possibility of more for the Fat Cow team in the future. “We’re planning on partnering with someone else and doing another pop-up later in the year. We’re playing it by ear—we don’t want to oversaturate the market with the pop-up trend.”
The “comfort food” pop-up is set for 6:30-11:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at Simple Joe at 3057 Government St. Tickets are $100 per seat, with 35 total seats available.