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FAQs
Dinner for the 2024 season is $265 per person (plus tax, gratuity & beverages). Dinner is so much more than a meal at TLK. It's an evening, an adventure, a moment, and a memory. A night with us lasts over 5 hours, consists of many, many, many courses and not only fills your bellies, but your hearts.
Why did The Lost Kitchen close? ›
The Lost Kitchen, which opened in the Gothic building in 2011, closed this spring with the only explanation for the sudden departure a blog post by owner and chef Erin French, who said she was taking a break after “going deep.”
How did Erin French lose her restaurant? ›
"I had a following." In 2013, she lost the restaurant and many personal possessions, even her grandmother's china, in a painful divorce. (French has since opened up about her custody battle and addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs in her 2021 memoir, Finding Freedom.)
How many meals does The Lost Kitchen serve per week? ›
The restaurant is open four-nights a week from May through New Year's Eve, and includes a single prix fixe meal of about 10 courses made by self-taught cook, restaurateur and author, Erin French.
Is Erin French still married to Michael Dutton? ›
Today, Michael is Erin French's husband and partner.
How do you get picked for The Lost Kitchen? ›
FREEDOM, Maine — The Lost Kitchen, one of the most sought-after restaurant reservations in the country, has started accepting reservations for its 2024 dining season — and you'll need a postcard and a lot of luck to score one.
Why did chef let Erin live? ›
Den of Geek writes that the clap we hear as she bites into her burger might hint that the meat is poisonous. That's why Slowik let her escape: he knew she was going to die anyway after eating the burger.
What happened to Krista from Lost Kitchen? ›
Maine chef Krista Kern Desjarlais closed her restaurant to make innovative ice creams by the lake - The Washington Post.
What addiction did Erin French have? ›
By 2013, without any formal training, French was being invited to host dinners at the James Beard House. As she'd later detail in a memoir, she then entered rehab for alcohol and prescription drugs and lost everything — her house, her marriage, custody of her child.
Did Erin French get custody of her son? ›
Seated in the empty Lost Kitchen dining room, French looks across the room at her son, engrossed in a book at one of the nearby dinner tables. She now shares custody with her ex.
Erin French, head chef and owner of The Lost Kitchen in Freedom, Maine.
How much does a bottle of wine cost at The Lost Kitchen? ›
The menu is posted on the cellar door for those who'd like to pair their wine choice with the main course. Prices for the wine were quite reasonable–starting at about $30 per bottle. The entire meal lasted about 3 hours.
How to get a reservation at The Lost Kitchen 2024? ›
Send us a postcard
Please include your name, address, phone number and email. Use the remaining space to send us a note if you'd like. In the upper left hand corner, please write '2024'. Be sure to use appropriate postage.
How hard is it to get into The Lost Kitchen? ›
The Michelin-esque Lost Kitchen in Freedom, Maine has preferred to stay off the grid, literally. The only way to book a reservation at this farm-to-table hideout is via an old-fashioned postcard, postmarked within a specified 2 week period in spring. They don't take phone reservations, nor online.
How many courses are in a meal at The Lost Kitchen? ›
French will serve these herself as a way of greeting guests. There is one seating a night at the Lost Kitchen, and dinner is a single prix fixe meal of four courses, but French can't seem to keep herself from expanding, usually into eight courses.
How much did they pay to eat at the menu? ›
In the opening scene, über-foodie Tyler, played by Nicholas Hoult, spars with his date, Margot, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, about the adventure they're about to embark upon. “12 customers a night? How do they turn a profit?” she asks. “$1,250 a head, that's how,” Tyler says.