Hello!
It’s one of our favorite times of the year; the weather is perfect, not too hot yet, the farms are just about to be fully on and the foothills are still a vibrant green. It’s asparagus and peas, strawberries, elderflower and the first of the foragable currants. The only bummer is the Idaho morel season is pretty hard this year due to the warm winter, rainy April and subsequently a lot of bug issues. On the other hand, porcinis are a bit early and looking good.
It’s also fully patio season (although this week might get a little drizzly). We’re about to have our first of this year’s outdoor events. We’re really hoping to be able to engage the outdoors a bit more this year, be it concerts, readings, theater or just having people come down and sit on the grassy hill. Speaking of which…
Upcoming Events
Death Rattle Literary presents: Ekphrastic
Thursday, May 28th
7:00-9:30p
Art Haus Patio
We’re partnering with local nonprofit Death Rattle for a session of readings themed around notional ekphrastic poetry, which is a subgenre where poets and fiction authors will write a piece describing an imagined, fictional or lost work of art/folklore rather than an existing tangible one.
The poets will read from between the flagpoles outside of our patio, the hill open to listeners. We’ll be jartending outside with original, collaborative beverages. The patio and bar will open for regular business with the kitchen fully open for dinner. Come down and support the local literary arts and relax on the hill! Just in case it gets a little wet, we’ll move it inside and go upstairs!
Night Market!
Thursday, June 4th
5:00-9:00p
Art Haus Patio
Night Market is back on First Thursday! We’re opening up the patio and hill to our local small businesses to sell their wares and make new connections. It’s a really fun event with jovial, supportive energy. We’ll have everything from local artists, ceramicists, nonprofits, DJs, flowers, books, bees and tarot. We’ll even have a young entrepreneur, Kichi, selling some magnetic origami hearts (a very unbiased plug for my 10 year old son). In addition to our friends, we will also have a table slinging cocktails, focaccia, cookies, pickles and skewers. Inside Art Haus will be fully open for regular service, as is the tasting room in KIN.
Also, any purchase from one of the vendors will get you a raffle ticket for the chance to win a $100 gift card to KIN & Art Haus. You don’t need to be present to win, so long as you leave your info on the ticket. We’re hoping for a good turnout and a fun night highlighting the hard working small businesses in our community.
Art Haus
Come on down and try out a new wave of summery beverages. The special burger this week is a mock on Char Siu, with some sweet hoisin glazed pork belly and five spiced napa cabbage slaw. We’re fully up on asparagus with a grilled dish and others tucked into a satisfying bowl of yakisoba. There’s also a tasty rhubarb sorbet…just saying.
Due to a lot of people asking for it, Wednesdays will consistently be Gyoza Night! We’re sticking with the traditional pork or mushroom filling but looking to add a few more varieties down the road.
Happy hour is still the first and last hour of the evening, perfect as the sun sets a little bit later.
Days Open: Wednesday-Saturday
Hours of Operation: 4-11p
Happy Hours: 4-5p & 10-11p
KIN
We’re onto Menu 77 - America! Semiquincentennial Regional Americana Thru Time! In honor of the 250th anniversary of these United States of America, we’re doing a menu based on food stories through American culinary history. It’ll dance around a little, from life on the frontier pursuing the American dream to Ellis island, “Melting Pot” fusion foods and of course, the iconically American condiment, Ranch. Because of a few pop menus interspersed through, this menu will go straight up to July 3rd (we’re all taking the Fourth off).
Menu 78 is one of those pop up, 1-week long menus and it’s one we’ve been wanting to do for a while now. It’s Kaiseki! Kaiseki is a traditional Japanese dining style built around a series of small, hyperseasonal courses. Each dish shows a bit of restraint, focusing on the natural qualities of the ingredient rather than covering them up. The meal follows a thoughtful progression, moving from lighter preparations to more intricate dishes, then back to something simple and grounding. Rooted in tea ceremony traditions, kaiseki is meant to reflect a specific moment in time and place through food. Our kaiseki meal will follow this arc but of course, reflect our own perspectives, experiences and local landscapes. We’re really excited about this menu. It’ll probably end up being around 11-13 courses and have some much more elaborate plating. A good chance to step outside our typical routine and push ourselves that much more. The menu will run Wednesday, June 24th through Saturday, June 27th. It is a ticketed event with everything (food, beverage, tax and gratuity) included in the price. Here is a link to purchase a ticket. It is set for Wednesday, but you can choose a different date from links below (Kaiseki #1-#4)
https://www.opentable.com/booking/experiences-availability?rid=1065754&restref=1065754&experienceId=715608&utm_source=external&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=shared
The other ticketed special pop up menus are also located on OpenTable for you to check out. We have a link to our calendar of events on the website here. https://www.kinboise.com/news
They are starting to fill up so make sure to snag a seat if you want to join!
KIN seatings for May & June
Thursday: 7p
Friday & Saturday: 6p & 9p (Supper Club)
As always, we really appreciate the support of everyone that makes it this far in an email. Business is still up and down. Despite what it may seem from the outside, there are typically reservations available on the tasting room side and plenty of room in the bar while the patio is running. We’ll continue to do more summer events, even outside our ticketed events, so stay tuned! We’re always open to catering summer BBQs as well! Hope everyone had a great long weekend and happy start to the summer season!