With an opportunity to “stretch his legs and get a little creative,” Chef Eric Korn is bringing Westchester residents his vision of dining out as an experience with his Elephant Tree pop-ups.

Pop-ups have been growing in popularity, allowing chefs to go beyond brick and mortar, cook in a wide array of setting,s and offer diners something a little different each time. The tagline of The Elephant Tree sums it up: “Who wrote the rule that a pop up can’t be a great restaurant?”

Korn, Executive Chef at Monteverde at Oldstone, a wedding and private party venue overlooking the Hudson River, says pop-ups offer chefs “a low barrier to entry” as they don’t need the initial start-up money necessary to open a restaurant. He had done some pop-ups when he was the owner of Good Life Gourmet Catering in Irvington (he went on to own Wolfert’s Roost) and found “from a diner’s perspective a pop-up is less about going to a restaurant than it is about going to a special event.”

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