How we build an experience around the offering of the land to create a hyperlocal fine dining experience in the Western Maine Mountains.

Fine Dining in the Western Maine Mountains - close to skiing and snowboarding at Sugarloaf and Saddleback, as well as enjoying the lakes in Rangeley and Belgrade.

Discover why The Chametz, an experimental worker-owned fine dining collective in Western Maine close to Carrabassett Valley, Sugarloaf, Rangeley, Saddleback, Farmington and Norridgewock , seats just 12 guests at a single communal table. Reimagining luxury dining through secret mountain locations, private shuttle transportation, and hyper-local 7-course tasting menus sourced within 100 miles, this unique culinary experience trades transactional isolation for genuine human connection, ancestral feast traditions, and workplace democracy.

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Grounded in global cooperative models like Bob’s Red Mill and Mondragon as well as historic Yiddish labor traditions, every team member shares ownership, stewardship, and success. By uniting sustainable local agriculture with workplace democracy, the collective turns fine dining into a living model of mutual aid and genuine hospitality.

Our location is secret. What does this offer you? A rare, fully immersive escape from modern navigational fatigue. By integrating door-to-door private van transit directly into every booking, the journey is transformed the journey into a seamless, worry-free extension of the dining experience itself.

The menu changes every experience. It’s presented to you sealed in wax when you arrive. Learn about why it’s part of the secret experience.