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Chef’s Tasting Menu at Table 128 – Saturday, August 30 | Des Moines Dinner Experience

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Chef’s Tasting Menu at Table 128

A Three-Course Seasonal Dinner with Optional Wine Pairings – Saturday, August 30, 2025

Every Saturday at Table 128, we open our doors to a one-night-only dining experience that celebrates the season’s best flavors. These menus are Chef Lynn’s weekly love letter to food and community—crafted with intention, served with warmth, and designed to make each guest feel like they’re part of our table.

This week’s tasting menu leans into the playful brightness of late summer, combining coastal freshness, smoky comfort, and sweet nostalgia. We begin with a shrimp slider—gulf shrimp tossed with coconut and cabbage slaw, topped with spicy aioli and shoestring potatoes on a soft slider roll. The second course brings a backyard favorite elevated: BBQ chicken, dry-rubbed and glazed with smokey tomato barbecue sauce, paired with grilled corn, a walnut and shallot corn salad, and warm cornbread. For dessert, we celebrate peak stone fruit with a peach pie—buttery crust layered with ginger, cardamom, and turbinado sugar, served alongside house-churned vanilla bean ice cream.

The Menu:

First Course:
shrimp slider - gulf shrimp, coconut, cabbage slaw, slider roll, spicy aioli, shoestring potatoes
Optional Wine Pairing: arques de Caceres | Cava Brut | Xarel.lo, Macabeo, Parellada | Penedes, Catalonia, ES | 2021

Second Course:
bbq chicken - dry-rub & smokey tomato bbq, grilled corn & corn salad with walnuts & shallot, corn bread
Optional Wine Pairing: Passionate Wines | Del Mono Tinto | malbec, syrah | Tupungato Valley, Mendoza, AR | 2022  

Third Course:
peach pie – all-butter crust, peaches, ginger, cardamom, turbinado sugar, vanilla bean ice cream
Optional Wine Pairing: G.D. Varja | Moscatod’Asti | Piedmont, IT | 2023l

Event Details

Date: Saturday, August 30 2025
Time: Available from 5 pm until sold out
Pricing: $58 per person; $91 with beverage pairings
Reservations: Recommended but not required. Reserve a table here: https://www.exploretock.com/table128/search?date=2025-08-30&size=2&time=12%3A00

From Chef Lynn Pritchard and the Table 128 Team

At Table 128, we believe that food is more than a meal—it’s an experience. Our Chef’s Tasting Menu is our way of sharing the season’s stories with you, one plate at a time. This week, we celebrate summer’s generosity, from the coastal brightness of shrimp to the smoky richness of barbecue and the sweetness of ripe peaches. Each course is designed to connect the kitchen to the table, the guest to the season, and the moment to memory.

We would be honored to cook for you this weekend. Come hungry, bring a friend, and let us take care of the rest.

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