Dear Friends of Meadow Lark Farm Dinners,

First, we'd like to thank you for your support and for your interest in joining us at the table. We've sincerely enjoyed meeting so many new guests throughout the seasons.

As interest in our dinners has grown, our approach of offering seats on a first-come, first-served basis has gotten more and more challenging. Given the number of reservation requests submitted only seconds apart, the process no longer seems fair: we are not able to accommodate the majority of requests submitted within minutes of opening reservations.

In an effort to make the process of offering seats at our table more fair for all, we've decided to award seats through a lottery.

This is how it works:

Lottery will open for one month at a time: the lottery for June reservations will open in early May, the lottery for July reservations will open in early June, etc... Each lottery will remain open for 24 hours. All lottery entries submitted during this 24-hour period have equal probability of being drawn at random—early entries are not at an advantage.

During the 24-hour lottery period, active links next to all open dinners will take you the lottery submission form; you can submit your entry for the dinner of your choice through our website, only. If there is more than one dinner you would like to attend, you can select as many as three dinners in the order of your preference. The maximum party size requested for any given dinner is ten.

Once the 24-hour lottery period has closed, we will draw entries at random to assemble a guest list for each dinner. We will contact you within a few days to inform you if your name was drawn and your party was added to the guest list. Included in this e-mail will be an invoice for your reservation. Please note that your reservation is not confirmed until your payment is received. Your payment must be received within ten calendar days to confirm your reservation. Thereafter, unpaid reservations will be void.

If your name is drawn and we are not able to offer you seats at the table for a dinner of your choice, you will automatically be placed on the waitlist. We will contact you if any seats become available.

Once the 24-hour lottery period has closed and guest lists have been composed from the random draw, our website will indicate which dinners have filled and which dinners have open seats remaining. You will be able to submit a reservation request for any dinner that has seats remaining, and add your name to the waitlist for any dinner that has filled.

We thank all of you for your support and your interest in joining us at the table. We can only seat 72 guests a week. With hundreds of requests for reservations, we are sadly unable to accommodate the majority of inquiries.

Meadow Lark Farm Dinners