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Michigan’s First Vegan Wine Club Launches in Metro Detroit
Vegan deli and catering company Chive Kitchen adds wine club to its list of offerings.
Located in Metro Detroit, Chive Kitchen is known for its memorable vegan catering offerings, gorgeous private events, coursed dinners, vibrant happy hours, and grab-and-go deli offerings like salads, side dishes, and desserts. Chive is owned by Chef Suzy Silvestre, and dishes reflect her unique cooking style, which blends notes from Portuguese and Western Europe with flavors from California. Beyond delicious food offerings, the plant-based company has recently added a vegan wine subscription to its list of services—introducing Michigan’s first-ever vegan wine club.
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Chive Kitchen launches vegan wine club
Said to be the only such club in Michigan, vegan grab-and-go café and caterer Chive Kitchen has launched a vegan wine club. Beverage director Matthew Shur selects wines for the club that have no gelatin, egg whites, isinglass or casein as some wines do. Members get five vegan wines four times a year with suggested food pairings, plus a 15% discount to Chive events. Membership is $125 every three months. Visit chivekitchen.com.
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Chive Kitchen stays creative in its business model, offers wine-themed events all month long
In the first few months of the COIVD-19 pandemic, downtown Farmington’s Chive Kitchen was faced with a difficult decision: In order to stay open, the vegan restaurant and bar had to cease operating as their loyal customer base had come to know them. Gone was the fine-dining experience; catering events and curating private parties was the new norm.
Catering and private parties was always part of the business model, says Suzy Silvestre, owner of Chive Kitchen, but with COVID it became the focus. Since then, Chive has re-opened as a more casual destination, operating on a grab-to-go model where customers can order online and in-person. While there’s no table service, they can eat inside now, too.
For fans of a more formal experience, the vegan restaurant is now offering wine-themed dinners and events throughout the month of December.
“We’ve always had a good wine selection — and specifically, vegan wines. It’s something we’ve been cultivating over the years,” Silvestre says. Though it may come as a surprise to some, the wine-making process isn’t always vegan-friendly.
“Of all the spirits, wine is the one you have to watch out for the most,” she says.
Planned for Saturday, Dec. 18, is the Lioco California Wine Dinner event, a five-course vegan dinner prepared by Chef Suzy Silvestre with curated Lioco wine pairings. The ticketed event costs $89 and begins at 7:30 p.m.