Don’t feel like going through the hassle of planning your meals and shopping for ingredients? Co-owners Carson Burks and Tamara Whitfield aim to make the process easier with The Dinner Bell.
As reported by St. Louis Magazine, the meal preparation service is scheduled to open later this summer at 475 Miralago Shore Drive in Cottleville.
Each month, The Dinner Bell will offer 14 different meal options. Customers select their meals and schedule a time to prepare them at The Dinner Bell. Once at the facility, they’ll go to an assigned workstation, where a detailed recipe and all prepared ingredients will be laid out. Customers assemble their dishes and take them home and to store in the freezer until they’re ready to cook.
“We’re going to offer a wide variety of meals to prepare,” said Burks, including gluten-free and vegetarian options. Burks said four years as executive chef at Legends Country Club have given him a solid background in large-scale preparation and modifying dishes for dietary restrictions.
“We’ll also have to-go items available, too, for people who can’t do a session,” Burks said.
“They don’t have to any of the prep work,” said Whitfield. “We do all of the shopping and chopping. We take out all of the hassle, and you get to do the fun part.” She said cleanup is included as well.
The space, which used to be the golf cart storage building at the former Mid Rivers Golf Links, is currently undergoing a complete overhaul. A soft opening is scheduled for mid-June and a grand opening event, which will benefit the Ronald McDonald House, is slated for mid-July.
Matt Sorrell is a staff writer at Sauce Magazine.
This article appears in April 2017.