By DCist Contributor Jacob Dean

Prequel (918 F Street NW), the pop-up complex living in the gorgeous bones of Living Social’s ambitious event space, has recently become home to the Rising Stars Chef Series, a Monday night supper club that is currently slated to run until late October.

Each meal in the series costs $50 per person and entitles one to a multi-course meal prepared by a visiting chef and their crew. The meals represent an opportunity for the chefs involved to try things that might not otherwise appear on their home restaurant’s menus, and the makeup of the meal is at the discretion of the chef. Past dinners have featured food from Thomas Park of Daikaya and Farmers Fishers Bakers, Jerome Grant of Mitsitam Native Foods Café in the National Museum of the American Indian, and Nick Sharpe, who was most recently at the After Peacock Room in Georgetown.

DCist recently attended Jerome Grant’s dinner, which benefited The Jones Academy, a boarding school founded by the Choctaw Nation. Fittingly, the meal featured ingredients sourced directly from Native tribes and drew inspiration from Native culture and history. For example, Chef Grant’s dessert course featured a trio of dishes based upon the “Three Sisters” (winter squash, corn, and climbing beans), crops whose symbiotic relationship is common across a variety of American Indian cultures (they also appear on the back of the Sacagawea dollar coin.) Dishes included familiar but culturally-important proteins such as salmon and buffalo, as well as ingredients like chokecherries, Anasazi beans, and amaranth.

The next meal, scheduled for Monday, August 31, will feature food from Colin McClimans, the Chef de Cuisine at Equinox (818 Connecticut Ave NW). Unlike the other meals, this dinner also features a cocktail menu from Danilo Simic, though guests should keep in mind that alcohol is sold separately from the dinner. Tickets for the Rising Stars Chef Series are $50 pre-tax/tip.