The dining room at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, with its linen-lined tables and suit-wearing servers, is, at the end of the day, a barn. But Dan Barber’s influential Westchester County farm and restaurant is unlike many other farms in the country. And surrounded by well-dressed Westchester well-to-dos and Manhattan commuters sitting down to a five-hour lunch, Oregon farmer and miller Tom Hunton felt a little out of place.
“We’re surrounded by all these New Yorkers, and here we get the preferred table by the kitchen,” he says. “Dan Barber checks in on us.” Barber had invited Tom and Sue Hunton to lunch, a thank-you for providing the restaurant
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