DINING
FORCE OF NATURE
Cloth & Flame helps diners experience one-of-a-kind meals and spectacular events By MICHAEL GOSSIE
and it had to be a zero-waste event. We But what really separates Cloth & Flame worked with the Hualapai Tribe for seven from every other dining experience of your onsider it a restaurant with the months to make it happen, but it was dreams is that you can actually turn those most spectacular view you will fantasies into reality. From intimate chefunreal. It was a stunning event.” ever experience — even though it’s Cloth & Flame doesn’t rely on simply the driven brunches, 300-person dinners in generally a one-and-done dinner. sensational settings to create a destination the desert, to team-building retreats, Cloth We recently traveled to the base of the dining experience. The food served at a & Flame collaborates with clients to create majestic Superstition Mountains, which is Cloth & Flame event exceeds anything you exactly what they’re want. just one of the locations Cloth & Flame uses If you’re looking for the most thought could emerge from a temporary to create temporary venues and culinary imaginative and inventive dining kitchen. The culinary creations are elegant, experiences wherever they can be imagined. elevated, exceptional and executed in a experience of your life, Cloth & Flame will A Cloth & Flame experience allows guests manner that defines fine dining. give you exactly what you want. and visitors to leave the hustle and bustle of the city or the stresses of the workplace to enjoy a chef-prepared meal among the 3 WAYS TO EXPERIENCE IT saguaro, under the stars, on a rooftop or in the middle of an orange grove. Cloth & Flame, which offers private farm-to-table dining experiences in Arizona’s most Imagine enjoying a meal at the rim of stunning locations, hosts three main types of events: the Sonoita vineyards, watching a bunny Community dinners: Immersive and collaborative farm-to-table dinners in unexpected hop past you as you delight in a delicious places, designed to foster community and conversations in a new way. meal along Oak Creek or hearing the roar Weddings: Cloth & Flame does inclusive full-service outdoor weddings. The beauty of of the crowd coming from Chase Field as a location-centric wedding is that each space is decided on and designed around the you dine in the middle of Central Avenue couple’s ideas, rather than the designated areas of an established venue. “Nobody wants with 40 of your closest friends. Cloth & a paint-by-number for their wedding day,” says Matt Cooley, co-founder of Cloth & Flame. Flame makes all those experiences — and “People love to create one-of-a-kind weddings and we are able to do that for them.” more — possible. “The most logistically challenging event Corporate and private events: Remarkable and deeply customizable retreats and dining we’ve done was a corporate lunch at the events, tailored to bucket-list wishes that the client might have or playing off a corporate base of the Grand Canyon,” says Matt brand. Cooley, co-founder of Cloth & Flame. “We Information: clothandflame.com built a luxury restroom from scratch. We were not allowed to use glass or flames,
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MAGICAL MOMENTS: AZ Big Media, which publishes Az Business magazine, hosted a Cloth & Flame dinner at the base of the Superstition Mountains.
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