The most exclusive dinner in Florida is in a backyard farm with a 2-year-old weightlist-and it is worth waiting for

On Saturday morning dawn, Regina Rodrigues drives their pickup trucks to buy hundreds of pounds of food and supply: oxtel, beef, chicken, onion, rice, sugar. After that evening, she opens her literal backyard doors to feed 150 people during a four -hour feast.

Regina’s farm is an external, non -profit food experience that is stuck in the residential Sebot Bend Neighborhood Fort LauderdaleFlorida. The gathering place (“We don’t call it a restaurant,” Rodrigues tells Travel + holiday)) There is less than a mile of downtown’s skyscrapers, which is completed with chickens, rabbits, production and is two to three years old weightlist.

Rodrigues says that the concept was inspired by the roadside, in the open air, where she grew up in the Minas Gerris region of Brazil. “I brought my Brazil into my backyard,” he told T+L. “Food (in Minas Gerace) is recognized worldwide because it is very traditional. It is like mother’s food, grandmother’s food. People travel from the northern and southern parts of the country to try food.”

Now, people travel from the entire Florida for experience. Since opening in 2013, the knowledge of this field has gradually spread-although only something that has actually increased on the site (herbs, select vegetables) ends in more than two dozen dishes served during meals.

Some meat is marinated and prepared in advance, but most of the cooking is on Saturday – the only day the field is open. (Although sometimes Sunday is also a pop up.) It stops due to the rainy, brutal heat of South Florida in July and August; The event is rain or brightness. This year, the experience opens again on 20 September. After the epidemic closure and some viral youtube and tiktok video, the weightlist balloon. It is currently booked through 2029.

To feed more than 100 people, Rodrigues employ about 13 “assistants”, which help with cooking, serving, cleaning, busing, seating guests and more. While waiting, dinner takes fresh sugarcane juice and can ignore your byob (wine and champagne, no corkage fee) on communal tables. As the food opens like a polymorphic, guests are called in groups based on the color-coded bracelets they receive on arrival.

The menu changes in a few weeks from the week, but always lies in the tastes of the rodger’s hometown. The first course is served with different types of soup (oxtel, chicken, corn and vegetarian options) Pao de Qizo (Brazilian cheese bread) and guava bread. The second course reveals the abundance of salad, plantain, yukka, collard greens and Feijoada (Classic Black Bean and Meat Stew). There is a selection in the main course Churco (Grilled meat), chicken pie, ribs, fish and beef. Vegetarian and gluten -free options are abundantly.

Crossing the road to ahead of the dinner, Las Olas Pooja Center – across the road where the husband of Rodrigues, Elizu, serves as a pastor – and supports his various missions around the world. The local community is served the remaining after Sunday church services.

The event is adapted to the child, with the opportunity to ride a train, swings, rope and feed the animals. “Children can run around and scream and play,” Elizu said, which is also a tractor-train ride conductor.

Sweets are one of the production of yourself: live flain-flipping, lime pie, cheesecake, coconut cake, brownie, s’Mores on fire pit, and Brigadiro, Treat a chocolate tuffle similar to a Brazil. There are also many homemade ice cream, fruit and Brazilian-style por-over coffee.

Most of the two dozen guests we had talked to were locals, who waited for at least two years on receiving the first confirmation of that week and dropped everything. A couple, who regularly traveled to the world to eat at some of the most acclaimed restaurants, said they were in the list since August 2023 and were killed from how the dishes were “let the content shine.” Another guest gave a single (about four hours distance from the north of Orlando) “for experience”.

The food lasts for about four hours, although 40 or so guests were still hanging out when we left after five hours. “People live all night,” Rodrigues said. “This is a celebration of life together with other people. It is an experience, you don’t hurry up. Sometimes I shed myself to sleep, and I sit through my window, and people are still sharing stories here, drinking alcohol. They don’t want to go.”

Regina farm; reginasfarm.com1101 Middle Saint, Fort Lauderdel. $ 65 adults, $ 35 baby. No walk-in. Lesson for Reservation: 954-465-1900. free parking. Bathroom on site. Doors open around 6 pm