Best Buds Dinner Series

Beginning April 20, local dispensary SWADE Cannabis will partner with Missouri-based cannabis manufacturer Teal Labs and notable St. Louis chefs and restaurants for an infused dinner series.

Each Best Buds popup explores a different cuisine, including Thai street food, New York-style pizza and breakfast sandwiches, for a carefully guided infusion experience.

“Infused dinners are the future,” Brandon Cavanagh, director of marketing strategy at BeLeaf Medical Co., the parent company of SWADE, said in a recent press release. “We have been blown away by the interest from chefs to learn more about using tinctures, butters and stirrables in their cooking, and we are happy that we can act as a bridge between curious consumers and the hospitality industry. This is no different than a wine dinner, and we want to normalize this. The chefs will throw down, and the vibes will be right!”

The lineup features Nathan Wright of Up Late (April 20), Mitch Frost of Pie Guy Pizza (May 13), Alex and Jeff Henry of El Molino del Sureste (June 24) and Nick Bognar of Indo (July 16).