Overlook Farm

Regional fare and garden-fresh ingredients will take center stage in a not-to-be-missed 2011 Guest Chef Series hosted by Clarksville Station Restaurant at Overlook Farm.

You can pretty much bet that an event with the words “sweet” and “luv” in the name is going to be good. That definitely looks like the case with the Second Annual Overlook Farm Sweet Summer Luv Luv Festival & BBQ Cook Off August 12 to 14 in Clarksville, Mo.

Up first is Lou Rook III, chef of Annie Gunn’s, who will be cooking a four-course meal with Clarksville Station executive chef Timothy Grandinetti on March 12. Their menu includes pheasant, wild salmon and slow-cooked bison short ribs.

The lineup includes: Joseph Lerner, executive chef of Bermuda Village in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Mark Beaupre, executive chef of the JW Marriott in Orlando, Fla.; Debbie Gold, executive chef of The American Restaurant in Kansas City; Grady Spears, chef and cookbook author from Fort Worth, Texas; and barbecue expert Ray Lampe, aka “Dr. BBQ,” of Chicago.

Regional fare and garden-fresh ingredients will take center stage in a not-to-be-missed 2011 Guest Chef Series hosted by Clarksville Station Restaurant at Overlook Farm.

Nathalie Pettus didn’t start out to become the largest employer in Clarksville. It just happened as she began to dig deeper and deeper to her roots.

Overlook Farm—the umbrella for her inns, restaurant, gift shop and farm—has 40 employees now and will add more in the summer. It takes its name from Pettus’ grandfather’s farm and apple orchard.

It has never been easier to surprise your sweetie with a romantic getaway. These 2011 Top 10 Romantic Inns, chosen by iLoveInns.com after months of research and deliberation, provide the perfect location, world-class hospitality, personalized touch and loving environment that dreams are made of.

It has never been easier to surprise your sweetie with a romantic getaway. These 2011 Top 10 Romantic Inns, chosen by iLoveInns.com after months of research and deliberation, provide the perfect location, world-class hospitality, personalized touch and loving environment that dreams are made of.

It has never been easier to surprise your sweetie with a romantic getaway. These 2011 Top 10 Romantic Inns, chosen by iLoveInns.com after months of research and deliberation, provide the perfect location, world-class hospitality, personalized touch and loving environment that dreams are made of.

Of the more than 30,000 inns and bed and breakfasts in the United States and Canada, the following 10 represent the most treasured of small, independently owned inns that have become favorites of couples who nourish their relationships by taking romantic getaways.

Any advice for those planning now? Do what you and your fiance want. Follow your heart in what you envision your wedding day to be. When people heard I was planning an outside wedding, so many people made negative comments. Bathrooms, Rain, EVERYTHING!

Today I have such a fun wedding to share with you guys! Sarah was a reader and found her amazing photographers here on GWS – the talented husband and wife duo of Jagger Photography! There were so many great photos and details that I’m splitting today’s wedding in two parts. Sarah + Kyle described their wedding as a vintage County Fair.

About an hour outside of St. Louis, MO, along a country road, you’ll reach a town on the Mississippi River that resonates with the soul of Mark Twain. Clarksville, Missouri, may not be a place where you’d expect gourmet meals and first class accommodations, but let me clear that up for you.

The apple once was king in Clarksville. But the number of people who were part of the industry or had direct knowledge of it is dwindling. So, as the town prepares for this weekend’s 32nd annual celebration of the fruit that put Pike County on the map, that history is being brought to life.

These are some of our favorite wedding moments from Sarah and Kyle’s wedding from Sweet Tea Media. It captures all of the glory of the perfect outdoor wedding in a majestic setting.

Back in July, I discovered the most amazing Bed & Breakfast in Missouri during my girlfriend Angie’s bachelorette party weekend. We were looking for a quiet and quaint space for a group of girls to get together for girl time! Thanks to my friend Kris, we drove a quick sixty minutes north of St. Louis to find Overlook Farms, a family owned farm with two historic inns and a unique restaurant that serves dishes made with food from local farms.

Well on it’s way to becoming a culinary resort of sorts, Overlook Farm in Clarksville Missouri is constantly building relationships with Missouri farmers to put together a menu that’s a dance party for your taste buds, and leaves you with the warm fuzzies because every bite incorporates sustainable practices. Feel-good foodies rejoice!

On November 1, former Renaissance Grand St. Louis executive chef Tim Grandinetti will assume the long and lofty title of Executive Chef and Director of Farmstead Operations at Overlook Farm in Clarksville, MO, a growing conglomeration of properties and businesses owned by Nathalie Pettus.

The average home cook tends to use a 4-pound bag of cornmeal only for baking corn bread (or is everyone buying Jiffy now?) or for dusting a pizza stone to lend density and texture to the crust (and to make peeling it off that much easier). But there’s much more to love. Cornmeal is what you need for an occasional grits breakfast, a hearty plate of rustic, peasant-inspired polenta or nsima, a worka…

Tim Grandinetti’s back, and he’s brought his intense passion and professionalism with him. A few years ago, Grandinetti resigned his position with downtown’s Renaissance Grand for a gig based in Winston-Salem, N.C. But he’s returned to the area to head up the kitchen at Overlook Farm in Clarksville. It’s a huge project encompassing (currently) two inns, the Clarksville Station restaurant and Overl…

The buds bursting on the trees in your backyard might signal winter’s end to you, but chefs take a cue that spring has sprung from the first round of edibles – fiddleheads, nettles, sorrel, wild garlic, onions and other fresh greens and shoots – erupting through the ground this time of year. “There’s no better introduction to spring,” said Kevin Nashan of the fiddlehead ferns and stinging nettl…

Overlook Farm’s Beaujolais Around the Bonfire event promises to be a magnifique way to start the weekend. On Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20 and 21, the culinary farm destination in Clarksville is hosting a Beaujolais Nouveau event like none other. It starts on the patio of this country respite, where guests will nibble hors d’oeuvres and sip the 2009 Beauj and Champagne. With the outdoor fire lit, y…

What to do with the kids off school and the relatives lounging on your couch? Load ‘em up and take a day trip to Clarksville. Once you’ve eyed bald eagles during a walk along Riverfront Park and peered through the scopes at the Clarksville Visitors’ Center, check out the après-eagle scene at The Clarksville Station at Overlook Farm. Executive chef Tim Grandinetti’s new winter drink menu is filled…