BILLINGS — On the second Friday of every month, Kirk’s Grocery is transformed by chef Ashley Woodward and her team into a pop-up pay-what-you-can restaurant called Kitchen Party.
“Anybody that thinks that food is something that you should have to earn has not been hungry,” said Woodward.
On Friday, the pop-up was themed “London Calling,” touting a British-inspired menu, and named after the 1979 Clash album; consisting of a three-course meal of the following:
- Sesame and curry-crusted carrot with vegan black pudding and peas puree
- Butternut squash wellington stuffed with beet nut wrapped in mushroom duck cell with puff pastry, decorated with spicy mint jelly
- Florentine lace cookie stuffed with an early grey poached pear slice and vanilla peppercorn cream
“It would behoove a lot of people to, kind of, restructure their ideas about: what is a valuable society member,” said Woodward, about the guests …