Once Upon a Supper Brings a Storybook Farm Dinner to Bentonville
At Farmhand Bentonville, every course at this dinner comes paired with a story, and the whole evening benefits a cause that’s putting books in kids’ hands across the region.
THE DEETS
📅 Saturday, March 21, 2026
🕕 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
📍 The Barn at Red Barn, 1525 NW Shores Loop, Bentonville, AR
🎟️ Adults: $120 | Ages 12–16: $20 | 12 and under: Free
🔗 More info and Tickets
Stories Worth Sitting Down For
Once Upon a Supper is a collaboration between Farmhand Bentonville, Dinner with Friends, and Two Friends Community Books, a pay-what-you-can bookstore running a nonprofit program to get books into rural schools and libraries across Arkansas.
Chef Monica Diodati has built a menu where each course is inspired by a children’s story. Guest readers from Two Friends and Farmhand will introduce each dish with a reading before the plates arrive, so you move through the evening like chapters in a book.
The event falls on World Storytelling Day, which feels about right.
A Menu Written in Courses
Each dish is named after a classic story and plated to match. The evening opens with The Giving Tree, an apple sage tonic followed by arugula with apple, radish, paneer, and pomegranate maple vinaigrette. Corduroy brings housemade hearth bread with salted butter to the table, and Where the Wild Things Are delivers a whole leg of lamb charred over the fire alongside roasted purple and orange sweet potatoes with herb chutney. The night closes with Bog Myrtle, a forest croquembouche of profiteroles, spun sugar web, frutti di bosco, and foraged shrubbery, paired with Earl grey tea, birch syrup, elderflower liqueur, and warm milk.
Wine is provided for the table. Kids’ plates are available on request.
The Cause Behind the Courses
A percentage of ticket sales goes toward Two Friends’ nonprofit program, which funds book ownership for kids in rural communities.
Reserve your spot now. We’ll see you at the table.
