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ABOUT OPEN FIRE CO

Open Fire Co is a purveyor of live fire cooking with an emphasis on suspension and hanging BBQ. We specialize in outdoor events that bring in the guest to a magically primitive world where all food is cooked with coals, fire and ash without the use of electricity.

Our favorite events are intimate private gatherings - think long lunches or dinners - where we can work with the client to prepare a bespoke, multi-course menu that unfolds over several hours. In this way, we produce a theater of food on the innovative fire cage that fire chef Mark C. Stevens designed and developed over nearly a decade years of fire cooking.

We have experience in adventurous weddings, corporate events, food festivals, birthday gatherings, bachelor/bachelorette functions, and restaurant pop-ups and collaborations. No matter the occasion or weather, we can adapt. Everyone who circles through our BBQs has one thing in common: love of discovery and adventure.

ABOUT MARK

Mark C. Stevens is a New Orleans based open fire chef, cookbook author, and world traveler - having visited all seven continents and 50 US States. His pursuits have culminated to create Open Fire Co, a food event company that specializes in suspension barbeque as an interactive, bespoke experience.

The "Hang," Open Fire Co's main attraction, is a curated, live cooking performance based on the lost art of human connection. When folks sit around a fire, pretenses fall away, and so does the rest of the world. Mark's cooking ethos leans into that with a focus on sustainability, using offcuts and eschewing conventional methods.