West coast guerrilla gourmet is about to meet Midwest palates, thanks to a couple of foodies who moved last fall from California to metro Detroit.

San Francisco-based Canvas Underground, a secret supper club, will host two pop-up dinners this weekend: in Hamtramck on Friday and in Ferndale on Saturday.

Executive Chef and owner Peter Jackson and his Canvas Underground team have been hosting the dinners in San Francisco for years. Now, with the relocation of the team's hostess and event coordinator, Vera Devera, who moved to Ferndale last fall, Jackson is taking his culinary road show 2,300 miles farther.

Jackson, a native of Berkeley, Calif., opened Canvas Restaurant in 2000 in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood; his style is influenced by Latin, Asian and southern American dishes. He is also a meat craftsman at San Francisco-based Boucherie Meats.

But the real story of how his dinners ended up in metro Detroit have more to do with the heart than the stomach.