Joe's Bar and Grill offers the best in American grub—whether that be burgers, sandwiches, salads or tasty sides. All meals are prepared fresh, locally by an old fashioned family bar and grill, in the same family for over 65 years. It offers American classics with a twist. There is something about a well made BLT, that's hard to resist. Come and grab a beer with friends and enjoy! When we're not busy catering hospitality events, we're in the restaurant every day making sandwiches and soups. Evenings we hold our classes and have a cook-off. I'm very excited about the future for our class. We have a few students that have come in and really made us take notice. For me, this is an integral part of what I love to do: teaching, showing people how to be creative with food. This is the reason we started cooking. For us it's about providing a new experience through food and taking our students on an exciting journey in a fun environment. We're a small class so it's pretty intimate and personal. I've always been taught to respect other people, and as a chef to always put people first, like I would always want somebody to come in my restaurant and want to have a great experience. This is not just an ordinary food school. It's a very experiential learning experience that you get. You can join our course which is two days and two four hour long classes. It's a whole different way of cooking and eating. We are a family, a team, a bunch of big kids and a very fun place. We want everyone to be able to experience this place. The students will learn the fundamentals, with the basics of the art of grilling; also, the basics of food prep and seasoning. By the end of the course, you are going to master two recipes that you will bring with you in the second phase of your cooking adventure, which is when you bring your new found skills and knowledge and experience into the kitchen of your home. The reason why we started cooking and creating videos was because we wanted to share our food and create an avenue for people to get together. Through the recipes that we have created we share what we do and how we started. We take people on a journey and experience with us every step of the way. There are challenges and there are hardships and what I think is one of the great things about this, is if you can make it through two four hour classes, you can make it through anything, including life. This isn't about cooking for health; this is about a fun way to start cooking and make healthy meals that are made from scratch. I've lived through some great times, great places. I've lived in the best of times, and some of the worst, and I've always survived. You can find some great videos of recipes we have made on our website. I think that one of the things we do and I have to say is really special to me and one of the most exciting things about it is that this is a family operation. It started with my grandma, my mom and my sister and today it's all of us. It's all hands on deck. This is something that's been in our blood for so long. It is important to keep it going, and also to pass it along. We continue to teach our students because we want to show them a good experience, and that they are going to have a lot of fun, and hopefully, it will help them understand a little bit more about what we do. This is something we take very seriously. People have a lot of questions about it. They can come and visit us and we are very, very open to that, and they can come and sit down in our restaurant and try the food. We love to show people. The things that we want to show, are the cooking tools, we want them to see the way we prepare our food. The things that we can show them are our techniques, what we do, how we do things. This way people can see what we do, but we want to keep it real. We want people to understand that a cooking class is a lot more than just cooking food. It's giving a chance to learn about how to enjoy food, and how to learn something that is very important to us, and that's hospitality. I'm really excited about the future and the things that I'm going to create. Our students are a reflection of their experiences here at the farm with us. That has helped them grow tremendously in the kitchen, and has inspired me to come to the dinner table. To me, this is about a way for people to learn to create a culture of good food, good hospitality, and to come together as a community. If you really want to cook for the future, don't take this away from this time, this culture, this time, these recipes. This is really important because, as I said, this is really about sharing our vision, because this is really about how to cook. We all come together as a family to feed each other, and it's just really important that people understand the roots of hospitality. I learned that hospitality is about sharing a story. It's not a business. It's something that makes us all human. I think that was really the essence of hospitality, of those first classes when we were kids. It's sharing the story. This is just another part of the story that we want to share. Thank you all for being here. Thank you all for being our family. Thanks for being our teachers. I love what I do and I'm very, very happy that people are being introduced to our farm through this school. Every day we cook because it makes us happy. It's really about hospitality and everything we've been teaching, we were taught by our grandmothers. Those are our teachers. And we have to keep passing on the traditions from that generation. Hopefully, a new generation will follow. Thank you all. We hope you all can come down to see us. We are here to do our thing, and I'm very grateful for everything that we've been able to create. Thank you all.