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Meet Chef Nathan

Nathan Sowers, Former Co-owner, Chef and Boulanger

“I am excited for the opportunity to bring my baking and cooking skills together to celebrate our guests and their most precious moments together at the Inn at Mt. Ida,” says Co-owner, Chef and Boulanger, Nathan Sowers, when asked how he feels about offering in-house catering at the Inn.

“Our catering menu reflects the kind of classical dishes and baking sophistication along with the contemporary dishes we know will impress our guests and create the kind of attraction we see in celebrity kitchens and other, well-known local establishments, like ours in and around our communities.”

The love of cooking and baking started early for Chef Nathan. Whether he was at the dinner table with his food-inspired family in Chicago or watching greats like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child and Emeril Lagasse, from his Leesburg and Ellicott City homes, Nathan took every opportunity to expand on his knowledge and technique in the food industry.

Chef Nathan received his European, French and Regional cooking training under Chef Michel Terisiguel of long-standing, Tersiguel’s French Country Restaurant in Ellicott City.

He moved from cooking to Boulanger as a result of his training with well-known master-baker, Jeffrey Hamelman who lead baking education at King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Conneticut. Nathan’s skill was recognized locally by L’Academie de Cuisine culinary school in Gaithersburg, Maryland where he was invited as an Adjunct Professor to teach professional and non-professional students.


Nathan operated a successful private chef and catering company called Pressed for Thyme which served private dinner parties in the Greater Baltimore, Virginia, and Washington D.C. communities.

After being introduced to wood-fired cooking at King Arthur Flour, he purchased his own wood-fired oven and soon would have the first-of-its-kind, live-fire, and farm-to-table focused, mobile wood-fired oven pizza company in the Region.


A fleet of three mobile wood-fired ovens would follow as River House Pizza Co. continued to expanded and grow into cross-county farmer markets, multiple Maryland festivals, private catered events and weddings and into the Forest Green Shopping Center on Route 40 alongside National chain restaurants in Ellicott City. 


In-house catering at the Inn at Mt. Ida will bring together Chef Nathan’s culinary cuisine and baking sophistication that is unique among establishments of its kind. 

Chef Nathan Sowers of River House Catering, River House Pizza Co and the Historic Inn at Mt. Ida

Catering Packages, Tailored to Your Event

By River House Catering — contact us for more information

About the InnAbout Your Host
Plated dinner parties for up to 50 guests
On-site catering with chef-inspired pasta dishes
On-site catering includes fajita and gourmet burger bar options
Wood-fired pizza by River House Pizza Co chef and owner, Nathan Sowers
If you love chocolate, you will LOVE the gateau concord desert
Passed appetizers never looked so good!
The Inn at Mt Ida is family-friendly
Gourmet cupcake bar features our signature magnolia
On-site catering menu offers a variety of impressive dishes including oven roasted airline chicken
Spice up the cocktail party with passed appetizers including lamb meatballs
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