CALIFORNIA OLIVE RANCH + SECRET SUPPER

Celebrating the beauty of harvest with a tree to table experience

At Secret Supper we focus on designing unparalleled dining experiences that evoke an appreciation for the moment and leave guests feeling deeply connected and inspired. We use an intentional approach to event design that incorporates seasonality, place, and artistry in design and cuisine to create an evening your guests will treasure for a lifetime, with moments they will want to share for seasons to come.

Secret Supper began with a dream to bring people together around a table filled with seasonally-focused food, great drinks, and endless conversation. Through authentic culinary and travel experiences, we’ve found our passion and purpose; to explore our different ways of life through creation of meaningful culinary and travel experiences that unearth and celebrate the common threads among us all. Energized by the impact and popularity of our Supper Series, we are now on a mission to inspire people worldwide to rediscover the beauty in both the extraordinary and the everyday through a diverse offering of experiences and stories.
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Through our Supper Series, we create thoughtful, once in a lifetime dining experiences for about 65 guests at a time, traveling from around the world. Only a general location is provided when tickets are released. It's not until 24 hours prior to the Supper that the address is disclosed, while the menu and bespoke details remain a secret until arrival.
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CALIFORNIA OLIVE RANCH ANNUAL HARVEST CELEBRATION

Secret Supper will design, plan and execute two nights of unforgettable experiences centered on a shared meal in the olive groves. Guests will be guided through an evening of interactive and communal experiences designed to be visually stunning and intimate, focused on exceptional hospitality.

With the California Olive Ranch brand direction in mind, we will work to tailor a unique, intimate, and visually immersive experience that connects curious minds through the universal language of food. Secret Supper will manage chef selection, design, and all details necessary to execute a replicable bespoke experienced infused with our unique DNA: undeniable hospitality, detailed design, and luxury cuisine, all anchored by a sense of playful adventure.

SECRET SUPPER SERVICES

Creative Direction: Creating the foundational mood boards and design plans necessary to bring our shared vision to life

Venue: Working with your selected location and managing all of the logistical details

Food & Beverage: Finding an incredible bar and chef team and partnering with them to design an epic feast, with exceptional service and hospitality throughout the event

Design Team: Sourcing a talented florist, fabricator, lighting designer, and other creatives necessary to ensure your real life experience surpasses your expectations

Rentals & Equipment: Selecting beautiful items that align with our design plan and menu and managing all of the logistics surrounding drop off and pick up

Contracts: Managing agreements so that you don’t have to

Budget: Estimating costs and keeping track of expense so that you stay financially on-track

Regulation Compliance: Obtaining any required event insurance or permitting as-needed

Detailed Plans: Creation and management of a detailed event run of show to ensure you, your guests and all vendors are extremely organized and set up for success, including a thorough inclement weather plan.

Event Management: Comprehensive onsite event management and production by the Secret Supper team.

Content Creation: Working with Katie Katz to ensure high quality photo deliverables, building on our previously existing relationship with her. Sourcing and managing videographer for high quality video content.

DINING EXPERIENCE

Our network of renowned chefs spans from coast to coast, with a particular focus on chefs well-versed in live-fire cooking and a strong focus on seasonality and local sourcing. We will draw from our robust relationships in Northern California to source a chef with a distinctive point of view on the culinary component of the guest experience. We will then work with our selected guest chef to curate a family style, harvest focused menu. Each course will be visually exciting and designed to elevate California Olive Ranch, highlighting each variety’s distinctive features and offering moments of both connection and education to guests around the table. We manage all prep and cooking logistics, and execute a high level of service with Secret Supper’s signature approach to warm, intentional hospitality and storytelling.

Over the past few years, we have worked closely with Russian River Valley Winegrowers to grow their annual Paulée into a signature harvest event for the region, attracting acclaimed winemakers, influencers, and visitors to appreciate the beauty and community of the California harvest. We would approach these events with a similar intention, showcasing the bounty of California autumn, the beautiful community of farmers and producers in the area, and the through thread of beautiful olive oil that enhances every component of the meal.

Top Chef + Mixologist

Chef Kevin O'Connor

Chef Nelson brings global technique and storytelling to the table with his ingredient-driven, Afro-Carribean inspired cuisine. He is well-versed in farm-focused tasting menus, showing off his signature, colorful style and strong desire for community connection in every menu. He recently published his first book, which is cocktail focused, and would relish to opportunity to tell the story of California Olive Ranch both behind the bar and in the kitchen.

Chef Charlie Palmer

Michelin-Starred Luminary

Chef Charlie Palmer has earned 15 Michelin stars throughout his storied career, which has brought him from New York City to California Wine Country, where he now oversees culinary operations for Appellation Hotels. We have been honored to work with Chef Palmer on previous Suppers and ongoing projects. As a pioneer in the farm-to-table food movement, he would present an elevated, refined take on harvest cuisine rooted in the story of California’s farm to table movement.

Live Fire Sommelier

Nelson German

Kevin O’Connor is a roving chef-at-large living in Sacramento. He is an olive oil sommelier, particularly qualified to create a menu driven by the story of California Olive Ranch and to integrate a tasting experience into the dinner. He specializes in live-fire cooking, and would present an extremely visually exciting cooking vignette for guests to interact with and enjoy.

EVENT DESIGN

Our approach to event design centers on connection — to place, to your story, and to each other. We will thoughtfully curate every detail of the event, from check-in to custom branded integrations through to guest gifts at the end of the night, to center the story of California Olive Ranch and encourage guests to appreciate the moment we are creating together.

We can scale design from simple, intentional florals and lighting to full-scale custom fabrications. We source and manage all outside vendors to ensure a seamless experience, and filter every decision through the shared creative direction. With ten years of brand partnership experience, we are well versed in translating your vision into authentic integrations that enhance guest experience, and leave them with warm feelings about your brand they are eager to share with their networks.

Intentional Details

We will source and manage local vendors, enrolling them in the creative vision of the event to ensure every detail delights and connects guests to the story of California Olive Ranch, including:

floral design
table styling
branded bar styling
lighting design
playlist curation or live music
chef and service team management
restroom sourcing
rentals

Brand Integration

We will identify impactful storytelling moments within the guest experience and design shareable backdrops to enhance the experiential storytelling embedded in the event. This can include custom menus and signage or a full custom-built photo backdrop, bar, or olive oil tasting vignette

Sense of Place

Everything we do starts with a sense of place. We will create a creative direction based on the story you want to tell of the California Olive Ranch Harvest. The visual identity of the event will support your brand’s storytelling through elevated, photo-ready moments: at guest check in, at the bar, at the table, and through custom interactive integrations throughout the evening.

CUSTOM INTEGRATIONS

We have extensive, varied experience in bringing brand vision to life through immersive and engaging integrations. We aim to enhance the experience for your guests by offering an enviable takeaway or photo memory for repostable content. Rather than a simple step-and-repeat or forced branded moment, we aim to infuse the story of California Olive Oil into every aspect of the event, so that each detail enhanced guest experience — and they want to share every moment, not just one.

A few examples of previous collaborative integrations are below, but we are always excited to create something new based on our shared vision for your event.

Flower Market

Interactive French flower market to match this Supper’s French Garden theme; guests were offered the opportunity to build their own bouquet to take home, with custom branded flower wrapping.

Artisanal Craft Integrations

We often work with local craftspeople to build interactive displays for custom take-home gifts. Guests have an opportunity to interact directly with artisans aligned with our brand partners, bring a bit of the evening home with them,

Custom Embroidery

In conjunction with Le Creuset, all guests were given the opportunity to choose from a menu of curated chain stitching to customize tea towels, which were sorted into personalized gift bags for pickup at the end of the event.

Custom Luggage Tags

Since most of our Supper guests are travelers, we created a custom luggage tag activation. Guests were given the opportunity to “sign” a cocktail napkin with any doodle or message they’d like, which was embossed onto a luggage tag during dinner for them to take on their travels home.

Live Painting

Live painter captured the ephemeral beauty of the Supper experience as it unfolded in real time, offering guests an artistic snapshot to take home with them.

Custom Blankets

Branded blankets were be passed out as the sun began to set and temperatures cooled on an autumn evening. Guests were then encouraged to take blankets home as a lasting memory of the cozy evening.

Custom Aprons

Bespoke branded aprons can carry the color scheme and aesthetic of the event through service, and enhance the professionalism of the service team. Also makes an incredible take home gifts for the guests.

Personalized Leather Stamping

Handcrafted coasters embossed with branded elements were available for personalization with guests’ initials, creating an interactive, photo-worthy display throughout cocktail hour, and a lasting, luxurious keepsake to remember the evening.

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ESTIMATED COSTS FOR TWO 25-GUEST DINNERS

Event Design and On-site Management
travel, production planning, creative direction

Production
venue, rentals & equipment, styling, photography/videography, insurance

Food & Beverage
chef fee, FOH/BOH staffing, bar team, food costs for 3 courses and cocktail hour with passed hors d’orves

RUSTIC REFINED

$19,000

ELEVATED FARM DINNER

$22,000

MICHELLIN-LEVEL

$25,000

$9,410

$15,760

$36,750

$8,000

$10,560

$19,200

Total

$30,410

$42,070

$76,950

TIER TWO

We will source and manage local vendors, enrolling them in the creative vision of the event to ensure every detail delights and connects guests to the story of California Olive Ranch, including:

TIER THREE