Ticketed Willowbrook Mill Events for 2025!

Celebrity Chef Dinner featuring

Jimmy Schmidt

Thursday, July 10, 2025

6-9 PM

At Willowbrook Mill

Northport, MI

A five course, paired meal featuring our theater plating area and lots of interaction with the chef as he walks us through his menu selections and pairings and featuring the best of Michigan food and beverage offerings!.

Jimmy Schmidt! Chef Schmidt joins us for his third event at Willowbrook Mill in our nine years as owners of the venue. Each time, he brings his latest, greatest food discoveries and with his easy going finesse, he shows us all how it’s done.

A little more about Jimmy…

““Respect, Taste & Nutrition

My simple inspiration is to preserve and enhance the natural beauty of the bounty of nature. Seasonal ingredients captured at their peak of flavor and nutrition, in contrasting and accentuating collisions of flavors inspire the senses to nourish both mind and body and engrave warm memories for years to come. “We are what we eat”, may reflect more than mere physical properties alone. The simultaneous energizing of all our senses of vision, smell, touch, hearing, taste and umami may be a direct path to our soul and inner well being. Cooking applies my unique perspective of nature’s flavor, biological and nutritional components to elevate the taste and align the nutrition to a delicious nourishing harmony.”

And, please! Take some time and wander the pages of his highly entertaining and educational website at OneMadChef.

www.jimmyschmidt.com

OUR VENDOR PARTNERS FOR THE EVENT!

Black Star Farms Winery

Bel Lago Winery

Shady Lane Cellars

Ironfish Distillery

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LOOKING BACK

Past Willowbrook Mill Presents events…

In 2024, Willowbrook Mill hosted New York Times best selling cookbook author, Chef Abra Berens for a sold out dinner that featured Women Winemakers for the pairings. Our Wine Educator, was Sommelier, Giordana Sobel and she was joined by local award winning winemaker, Kasey Wierzba of Shady Lane Cellars.

More Visiting CHEFS & Others who have also graced our kitchen between 2016 and 2024:

Chef Don Yamauchi, a James Beard Winner, brought his formidable talent to Northport where he created a fabulous five course meal for another sold out dinner in July of 2023

Beaujolais Nouveau Day Dinner- a collaboration with Chef Guillaume Hazaël-Massieux of La Becasse, Black Star Farms Winery and winemaker, Lee Lutes and Willowbrook Mill. On November 17, 2022, a perfectly paired five course meal was served to yet another sold out crowd on this day celebrating international Beaujolais Nouveau Day.

To Hell & Back: Willowbrook Mill hosted FIVE Hell’s Kitchen Alumni Chefs in August of 2021. Chef Kim Ryan- Hell’s Kitchen Winner of Season 16

Chef Heidi Parent- Hell’s Kitchen Season 16 Runner Up

Chef “T” - Hell’s Kitchen Seasons 14 and 18

Chef Heather Williams- Hell’s Kitchen Seasons 16 and 18

Chef Wendy Mendez- Winning Team Season 16

These five remarkable chefs created a paired, five course meal that wowed guests for two nights in a row, sold out status!

Chef Elizabeth Brown & Amy Spitznagel, owner of Idyll Farms hosted a cooking demonstration and tasting to a sold out crowd, bringing delicious recipes to life with Idyll Farms Goat Cheese, locally sourced produce, Baia Wines, TwoK Cidery, 45 North Winery & Bluestone Winery.

Celebrity Chef, Jimmy Schmidt cooked up a storm for two sold out nights, bringing his Artisan BBQ: Exploration of Smoke & Spice to Willowbrook Mill. Five delectable appetizers were followed by five entrees paired with Black Star Farm Wines, 45 North Wines and Bel Lago Wines.

A Traditional Indian Dinner with Chef, Rajeev Patgaonkar-For this evening of food and drink, guests dined on several appetizers from different regions of India. Lamb Kofta, Jal Jira & Samosas among the offerings. Guests enjoyed this evening of flavors, colors and sounds of India...right here in Northport, Michigan

AUTHORS

Five fabulous, fun and celebrated authors came together at Willowbrook Mill to meet & greet, lead a discussion and sign some of their many titles for readers- Dana Fredsti, Alyssa Alexander, Barbara Stark Nemon, Meika Usher, Lyssa K. Adams.

Update on Lyssa K Adams books: With eight award winning books; five in the Bromance Book Club series, watch for a Netflix series based on these wildly popular best selling Rom-Com stories! Congratulations, Lyssa!