Community first
Local chefs, local hosts, local partners. The people at the stove live where you live.
About
A family-run studio, and a table.
Bougie Table is the hospitality side of Backyard Bougie: a family-run creative studio on a small farm outside Placerville, run by Mike and Kristie Clack, with chickens, sheep, a donkey, and a Great Dane who thinks he works here.
Why a table
We kept hosting dinners. People kept asking who cooked.
For years our friends have driven up the hill for long dinners on the farm: a chef at the stove, wine the guests brought, the donkey complaining at the fence. The question at the end of the night was always the same. Could we do this at their house?
Bougie Table is the answer. Mike runs the operation and the numbers. Kristie takes every host call, styles every table, and meets every chef before they cook for you. The chefs are restaurant cooks and independent chefs from the Foothills and Sacramento whom we have fed, and been fed by, in our own kitchen.
We operate as Bougie Table, a Backyard Bougie company, from Placerville, California.
What we believe
Four things that do not change.
The plate, the table, and the invitation all matter
A printed menu on every plate. A tablescape that makes sense. An inquiry that feels like a conversation.
Execution over ideas
The measure of a Bougie Table evening is a kitchen left cleaner than we found it and a host who never left the table.
Hospitality as stewardship
We are a family of faith. Generosity at the table is not a brand line for us; it is how we were raised and how we raise our own.
The Bougie family of companies
One studio, four names.
The Backyard Bougie
The parent brand: lifestyle, storytelling, Wine Down, the podcast, and the farm.
Bougie Marketing
The studio's agency. It builds and runs marketing for hospitality and local businesses, including this site.
Bougie Print
Custom apparel and print: our chefs' aprons and the menus on your table.
Bougie Table is the fourth: dinners, in your home.