Thoughts of expansion are on the minds of Whistling Boar owners, Debbie Seaford and her husband, Chef David Pitula. The private chef and catering company recently took over the commercial kitchen at 243 Terry St. in Longmont that they’ve been utilizing for their business.
Next week, they’ll begin offering walk-up service for guests wanting to purchase mouth-watering entrees, side dishes, and a variety of artisan breads, pickled and fermented vegetables, and fruit preserves. “The majority of what we offer comes directly from Boulder County,” Seaford said. “We are local first, and then we are organic second.”
The location features a small dining room with enough space for four to six people to enjoy an intimate, privately catered, five-to-seven course meal. It also includes a commercial kitchen, garden, and an outdoor space that they hope to utilize in the spring or summer of 2022.
“Our goal always will be to have a storefront, a place where people can come in, have a coffee, have baked goods, and just sit down and be part of the community either in an outside area or an inside area,” Seaford shared with What Now Denver. They are currently looking into the legalities of opening the outdoor space, so people can sit and enjoy the variety of food options Whistling Boar has to offer.
Pitula and Seaford spent 20 years working in high-end restaurants and catering companies in New York before moving to Colorado in 2016. They opened Whistling Boar in February 2020 and offer farm dinners, cater weddings, and have a Caribbean pop-up restaurant.
Whistling Boar is involved in charity work and is currently offering a Fall Harvest five-course dinner as a fundraiser for Colie’s Closet. The private chef and catering company is also part of Zero Foodprint. “It’s helping farmers make it,” Seaford explained. “It’s a table to farm initiative. It’s an amazing program. We automatically donate one-percent of all of our sales to the Foodprint.”
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, Whistling Boar is also offering boxes of classic Thanksgiving dinners or a vegetarian option for those attending Friendsgiving or for families who don’t feel like cooking this holiday season.
The box includes a turkey breast stuffed with mushrooms, herbs, and caramelized vegetables, which is then rolled and roasted. Sides and pies, all with local fillings including apple pie made fresh from donated Longmont apples or the sugar pumpkin pie, with pumpkins from a Longmont organic farm, are also included. Everything is offered à la carte.
More of the community can enjoy all that Whistling Boar has to offer as it’s walk-up option and reservation-only, intimate private dining experience become available later this month. We are keeping our fingers crossed that Whistling Boar’s plans to open the outdoor space to guests next spring or summer come to fruition.
