Enjoy the taste of summer year round as Emiliana Puyana of Jarred teaches you how to preserve vegetables at the Pickle Party. The event takes place Wednesday, July 18, 2012 from 6:30 - 9:00 pm at La Cocina (located at 2948 Folsom). The class is $65.00 per person or $95.00 which includes an apron. For more information, click here. -guest contributor
Get ready to sizzle at the 19th Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival celebrating salsa food, music and dance on Saturday July 28 - Sunday July 29, 2012 at Plaza Park, Fifth and “B” Streets, in historic downtown Oxnard. Presented by the Oxnard Downtowners, the two day event features food and entertainment and draws an estimated 45,000 salsa lovers to the City of Oxnard. Everything salsa – the food, the music, the dance – is on the menu. Event highlights include Main Stage entertainment with Salsa and Latin Jazz bands, the Salsa Tasting Tent featuring over 50 different salsas, a vendor marketplace, international foods, Kids Korner attractions, a salsa recipe contest and [...]
Enjoy brunch while taking in the views of New Haven Harbor with Brunch Sail on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 10:00 am. The cruise will include a variety of brunch favorites with an opportunity to help raise sail or just sit back and enjoy coffee. The cruise will take off from Long Wharf pier. For more information or to purchase tickets ($45.00 for adults and $22.50 for children 12 years old and younger), click here. -guest contributor
Join the New Orleans Food and Wine Experience as they celebrate their 20th anniversary on Tuesday, May 22 - Saturday, May 26, 2012. The five day event will include wine and food seminars, wine dinners at some of the city’s most celebrated restaurants, one-of-a-kind wine tasting events, and two Grand Tastings. For more information or to purchase tickets (started at $82.00), click here. -guest contributor
Join Taste of Pace on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 6:30-9:30 pm for their Tuesday Night Farmers Market Cooking Class (located at 652 Mateo Street, Suit 207). The class teaches you how to cook based on seasonal availability at the local farmers market. You use the freshest options to create a meal with food from some of Southern California's best farms. To see additional dates or to purchase tickets ($88.12), click here. -guest contributor
Savor Dallas 2012 — a wine and food festival — will take place Friday, March 30 - Saturday, March 31, 2012 and feature a variety of events including an Arts District Wine Stroll, Wine Panel Tasting Seminar, Reserve Tasting, International Grand Tasting and more. Tickets start at $25.00. For a full list of events or to purchase tickets, click here. -guest contributor
Boston Restaurant Weeks runs for two weeks this March. Specifically, from Sunday, March 18 to Friday, March 23 and Sunday, March 25 to Friday, March 30 featuring a variety of restaurants offering prix fixe menus for lunch and/or dinner: 2-course lunch for $15.12, 3-course lunch for $20.12, and 3-course dinner for $33.12. For additional information and a full listing or participating restaurants and their menus, click here. -guest contributor
Join Give Me Some Sugar for Cupcakes and Cocktails on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 from 6:30 - 8:00 pm at 2205 W. Belmont Ave. At this fun after work activity, you will learn basic piping and design techniques for cupcakes, each person having a half dozen cupcakes to decorate and take home. For more information or to purchase tickets ($45.00 + fee), click here. - guest contributor
Join the Deering State Foundation for the Deering Seafood Festival on the Bay on Sunday, March 25, 2012 from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm with a variety of events for the whole family including food from seafood markets and restaurants, pontoon boat rides, ongoing music entertainment, a Lil' Shrimp Kids Zone and more. Tickets are $15 for adults or $25 at the gate. Children ages 4-14 are $5. Admission includes all food, drink, pontoon boat rides and rock climbing. For more information or to purchase tickets, click here. -guest contributor
Indulge yourself with hamburgers and beer with The Grind: Miami's Burger Battle taking place on Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm at the Miami Entertainment Complex (located at 50 NE 14 Street). The event is $75.00 ($85.00 day of event) and includes sampling 30 hamburgers and all of the Blue Moon, wine and drinks you want. For more information or to purchase tickets, click here. -guest contributor
Join Wok Star Eleanor Hoh for Cook Like a Wok Star on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 from 6:80-8:30 pm at Coverings, etc. (located at 7610 NE 4th Court). The class will teach you how to cook simple dishes with easy clean-ups. The event will feature three dishes and Vouvray wine. For more information or to purchase tickets ($67.62), click here. -guest contributor
The Village Voice's Annual Choice Eats Tasting Event takes place Tuesday, March 13, 2012 from at 6:30-9:30 pm at Choice Eats located at 69th Armory, Lexington Avenue. The event will include sampling food from over 50 restaurants including the Blue Stove, Doughnut Planet, The Good Batch, Dean Street, Court Street Grocers and more. Also included will be complimentary drinks, dessert sampling and entertainment. General Admission is $50.00 and VIP is $70.00-$80.00 (includes extra sampling and/or access to the first annual Village Choice Streets Food Truck Tasting Event). All guests must be at least 21 years old. For for more information or to purchase tickets, click here. -guest contributor
The American Fine Wine Competition celebrates the finest wines produced in the United States and consists of several events, ending with a Gala Dinner on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at the Boca Raton Resort Club & Spa in Mizner Center. The celebration starts off with the Allied, Kitchen & Bath VIP event on Thursday, March 8, 2011 at their showroom in Fort Lauderdale. Professionals will have an opportunity to network and meet the judges while learning about the upcoming Gala and enjoying a meal featuring American wines from last year’s AFWC event. Next is the Consumer Challenge Fundraiser hosted by AFWC on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at Bogart’s restaurant, located [...]
Boston Restaurant Week will run from Sunday, March 18 through Friday, March 23, 2012. Participating Boston restaurants will offer special three-course, prix-fixe menus for lunch and dinner. For more information, click here. -guest contributor
Figi's Food and Wine Festival— hosted by Air Pacific and Tourism Fiji — will take place Wednesday, March 14 - Saturday, March 17, 2012 in Denarau — a resort island located 20 minutes from the Nada International airport. The event will have a variety of activities including celebrity presentations, master classes, cooking demonstration, culinary workshops, gourmet lunches and degustation dinners as well as Kids’ Cooking Workshops. Highlights from the festival include touring the Suva Produce Market, lunch with Festival ambassador Robert Oliver, daily happy hours, evening entertainment and more. International and celebrity chefs, including Robert Oliver, Manu Feildel, Ben O’Donoghue, Michael Meredith and Peter Gordon will also dish up delicacies from the South [...]
Darien Social - a neighborhood bar and restaurant - opened its doors February 1, for lunch and dinner. Darien Social offers a wide selection including local oysters with sherry onions and crispy shallots, Swedish meatballs served with sweet jam, toast and foie gravy, organic beef "social burgers" and more. Also available are cocktails, wine and 31 draught beers. Restaurant hours are Sunday - Thursday 11:30 am - 1:00 am and Friday - Saturday 11:30 am - 2:00 am. For more information or to see their full menu, click here. Darien Social 10 Center Street Darien, CT 06820 - guest contributor
This is Sonoma County Restaurant Week, which runs through Sunday, March 4, 2012. It featured a variety of restaurants offering three-course dinner menus at $19, $29 and $39. Participating restaurants include K & L Bistro, Palms Grill, Iron Stone, Italian Affair Restaurant and more. For additional information and a full listing or participating restaurants and their menus, click here. - guest contributor
Buckhead Restaurant Week runs through Sunday, March 4, 2012, featuring a variety of restaurants offering prix fixe menus for dinner at $25.00 and $35.00. Prices do not includes alcohol, tax or gratuity. For additional information and a full listing or participating restaurants and their menus, click here. -guest contributor
BGR The Burger Joint in West Hartford, Connecticut is launching a college special for students from the University of Hartford, St. Joseph's and other area institutes of higher education. Every day students with their ID can get a prime beef burger, fries and a drink (free refills!) for just $7.99. "Thirsty Thursdays" is a Burger and Brew night where students can get a beer and a burger for $9.99 from 5:00 pm to closing. For more information, click here. 983 Farmington Ave. West Hartford, CT. 06107 Phone: 860-523-3152 -guest contributor
Num Pang Sandwich Shop (located at 21 East 12th Street and 140 East 41st Street) is featuring a Num Pang Guest Chefs Give Back Program teaming founders Ratha Chaupoly and Ben Daitz with chef colleagues, friends and mentors to create a signature, limited edition num pang to raise money for charitable causes. The proceeds — $6.00 per sandwich— will be donated to charity. The "Batali Pang" — Mario Batali's creation of Brooklyn Banger's cotecchino sausage with balsamic pickled onions and Cacio de Roma cheese, with the traditional Num Pang ingredients of homemade chili mayo, pickled carrots, cucumber, cilantro and served on a toasted semolina flour baguette — will be available through Thursday, March 15, [...]
