The Inn at Celebrity Dairy has set the schedule for its upcoming Sunday dinners; the next one is a Middle Eastern picnic on Aug. 19.

Don't worry about the heat. It's an indoor picnic at the Silery City goat dairy known for its cheeses. The menu includes falafel, lamb meatballs, baba ganoush, spinach pastries, black-eyed pea hummus and dates stuffed with goat cheese and pistachios.

Other upcoming Sunday dinners include:

• Sept. 16 featuring duck soup, london broil with gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, roasted squash and okra, fried corn cakes and pecan pie.
• Oct. 21 with chevre and pate terrine on greens, seared duck breast with duck confit, sauteed Swiss chard, kale and rapini, rice, bread and apple pie.

All the dinners start at 1:30 p.m. and cost $50 per person. To make a reservation, call 919-742-5176. For more information about the inn, go to celebritydairy.com.
 

Chip Smith, chef at the now-closed Bonne Soiree in Chapel Hill, is returning to the Triangle once a month to cook a Sunday supper at The Inn at Celebrity Dairy in Siler City.

The first one is 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16. The meal includes passed hors d'oeurves, an appetizer, entree and dessert. The meal costs $75 with wine pairings and $50 without wine.

The next two are scheduled for Nov. 13 and Dec. 11. The December event's menu will be a French country Christmas feast.

Space is limited to 36 guests. To make a reservation, call 919-742-5176. For more information, go to www.celebritydairy.com.
 

I have so many special dinners to mention that they get a meta-post:

• Raleigh's Zely & Ritz is offering a four-course dinner featuring Fullsteam Brewery at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13. The menu includes goat cheese with apple salad, candied pecans and maple syrup paired with Rocket Science IPA. The cost is $49 per person. To make a reservation, call 828-0018.
• 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, the monthly Sunday dinner at The Inn at Celebrity Dairy in Chatham County. The featured chef is Gwen Higgins from the Aurora Restaurant in Chapel Hill. The dishes include goat cheese salad with walnuts, olives, marinated cherry tomates and balsamic vinaigrette and grilled American duck breast marinated with red wine ginger garlic served with a Chianti cranberry sauce. Dinner costs $75 a person. For more information, go HERE. Call 742-5176.
• At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, Chapel Hill's Pazzo is offering a four-course dinner featuring Vietti wines and winemaker Luca Currado. The menu includes chilled Maine lobster and baby arugula salad with blood orange vinaigrette and lamb tenderloin wrapped in prosciutto with mashed potatoes and baby vegetables in a Barolo-roasted garlic jus. Dinner costs $85. Call 968-1884.
• Herons in Cary is celebrating its reopening with a guest chef five-course dinner at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27. The guest chefs include Curtis Duffy, chef de cuisine of Avenues at The Peninsula Chicago and Claudio Aprile of Colborne Lane in Toronto. It costs $145 per person. Call 447-4050 to make a reservation.