It’s not just getting f- up high and going to 7-Eleven and getting Big Gulps,” Chun says. “This is a nine-course culinary experience with cannabis. More recently the self-proclaimed first cannabis restaurant in America opened in Los Angeles in 2020 and last year in Berkeley, the Claremont Club & Spa offered a $226, four-course food-and-weed pairing.īut what sets Chun’s dinners apart are their scale and the interactive, artistic elements she intersperses throughout the meal. Underground suppers and pop-ups have been taking place for several years in the Bay Area. For this latest event, the 45 seats sold out less than 48 hours after they were released.Ĭannabis-infused dining has long been popular in California. Each dinner seats 20 to 60 people depending on the venue. Ticket prices vary and average $125 per person. Chun’s events are so popular that seats often sell out via her newsletter blast even before she’s had a chance to announce it to her 15,000 Instagram followers.
The addition has paid off major dividends.
It was only in 2018, however - when the state of California legalized the recreational use of marijuana - that the chef, a self-described “high-functioning stoner,” decided to add cannabis to the mix. The 36-year-old Chun has been hosting these dinner pop-us, called Big Bad Wolf, since 2015. They were lucky enough to get their hands on tickets to attend a one-of-kind, immersive, cannabis-infused fine-dining event hosted by San Francisco Korean American chef Haejin Chun. On a September evening earlier this year, a group of 45 fashionably dressed women had gathered at the luxe open rooftop of Four One Nine, an event space tucked away in San Francisco’s SoMa district. This latest one was titled, “The Food That Shaped The Woman I am Today.” Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle Show More Show Less
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Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of3Īll of Chun’s dinner series have themes. Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of3Įach of the dishes, like the kimchi bacon compote and cured egg yolk served over a rice puff here, is tied with a specific memory in Chun’s life. Big Bad Wolf is a one-of-a-kind, immersive, cannabis-infused fine-dining dinner series.
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