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Dinner With The Departed

  • 680 Adams Avenue Memphis, TN, 38105 United States (map)

Join us for one night only as we host an exclusive dinner in honor of the departed Woodruff and Fontaine family members while exploring a fascinating and bizarre Victorian mourning custom known as a "BACKWARD SUPPER."

The evening will begin in the club rooms of the mansion’s cellar with a short presentation about the history of the backward supper tradition while enjoying pre-dinner cocktails provided by Old Dominick Distillery before savoring a three-course meal held in true Victorian mourning fashion. While dining in an intimate setting, history will come alive with each course. As a finish to the evening, guests will stroll the darkened rooms and hallways of the mansion on a guided tour, listening as the secrets of those who lived and died within her storied walls are revealed. FIrst-hand accounts of the paranormal occurrences that have become the Woodruff Fontaine House legacy are waiting to be divulged!

Dinner With The Departed will be held from 7pm - 10pm, Saturday October 21.

Tickets are limited and must be purchased online in advance. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Doors close at 7:15pm

$80 per person will include a pre-dinner cocktail, a three-course gourmet dinner in the mansion cellar, two complimentary glasses of wine, and a tour of the mansion.

$150 - VIP experience includes a pre-dinner cocktail, a three-course gourmet dinner in the mansion’s formal dining room, open bar, private butler service and tour, and an exclusive gift bag.

This event is 21 & up. Tickets are nonrefundable and the event will continue rain or shine.

Once tickets are purchased, look for an email with further details regarding your dinner preferences.

Tickets will only be sold by the Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum. Do not purchase tickets from a third party.

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