Palms Springs Restaurant Week runs Friday, May 30 through Sunday, June 8, 2014, featuring a variety of restaurants and offering three-course meals for $26 or $38. For additional information or list of participating restaurants, click here.
The Kennebunkport Festival is a annual event that includes the food, wine and the art of Maine. It will run Tuesday, June 3 through Sunday, June 8, 2014. The Food Festival events take place in designer homes, displaying art work and providing meals that are prepared by individual Chefs in each of the homes. The goal is to showcase the best of Maine and what it has to offer on the coastal setting of Kennebunkport. The Festival is The Art of Dining is one of the major highlights of the festival, it will be a series of dinners prepared by Maine’s top chefs. The festival will also be featuring artists, musicians, wine [...]
San Francisco Dine About Town Restaurant Week runs Sunday, June 1 through Sunday, June 15, 2014, featuring over 100 restaurants and offering two or three course lunches for $18.95 and three-course dinners for $36.95. For more information or list of participating restaurants, click here.
Vermont Restaurant Week runs Friday, April 25 through Sunday, May 4, 2014, featuring a variety of restaurants and offering prix-fixe dinners at $15, $25 and $35 and $10 breakfast and lunch specials. For additional information, click here.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Connecticut Chapter will host Hops & Grapes, Toasts & Tastes at Chelsea Piers, Stamford, (CT) on Friday, April 25th from 7:30 to 10:30pm. Local restaurants, and distributors will showcase a selection of foods, wines and beers. LLS hopes to raise over $50,000 during this fun-filled evening. The evening’s festivities will include a silent and live auction and raffle. To this date, Hops & Grapes vendors include: Back East Brewing Company, Bar Russo, Bar Sugo, Beverage Boss, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cakey Kathy, Capriccio Café, Casa Villa, Chocolations, Colony Grill, Dash N Drizzle, DiMare Pastry Shop, Farmboys Smokin’ BBQ, J’amie ҫa Cake c/o Bar Sugo, Little [...]
New Haven (CT) Restaurant Week runs Sunday, April 6 through Friday, April 11, 2014, featuring a variety of restaurants and offering prix fixe menus. Participating restaurants will offer three-course prix fixe menus for both lunch and dinner, which include an appetizer, entrée and dessert. Lunch will cost $18, while the dinner menu will cost $32. Prices do not include beverage, tax or gratuity For additional information, click here.
New Havenites bemoaned the sudden closing of Ibiza earlier this month. And so, I'm glad to share with you the possibility of another opening. Mario Batali — who will be hosting the upcoming Beard Awards in May — just might be opening a restaurant in New Haven. Mary E. O’Leary, reporter for the New Haven Register, posted the following news and photograph in the business section (click here for original article). I had to share.... Mario Batali, known for his New York restaurants and television presence, wants to open a restaurant at 278 Park Street at Elm Street. The 278 Park St. site was approved for a 54-seat restaurant in [...]
The Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest is now open, calling home cooks to compete for the $1 million Grand Prize. The finals will be November 3, 2014, at the Omni Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. What’s new? For the first time, America’s vote will be combined with the judges’ decisions to determine the Grand Prize Winner. Additionally, Pillsbury expanded the ingredient list to include a Gluten Free Award. The Bake-Off now features four recipe categories with separate two entry periods. The first entry period includes the Simply Sweet Treats and Savory Snacks & Sides categories and is open for entries from now until March 27 (11:59 a.m. CDT), 2014. The second contest [...]
Boston had two Restaurant Weeks in March. One runs Sunday, March 16 through Friday, March 21, 2014, the other, Sunday, March 23 through Friday, March 28, 2014, both are featuring over 200 restaurants and offering prix fixe menus. For additional information, click here.
Tonewood maple tree adoption program is an opportunity to support small-scale Vermont maple producers and sustainable farming practices. It helps fund small sugaring operations. Adopt a maple tree! That adoption offers offer small scale producers added financial security and helps to preserve family-owned farms and the tradition of maple production. Each tree adopter (or gift recipient) will receive a selection of gourmet maple treats every 3 months plus an adoption certificate, along with a photo of your tree and an informational booklet about maple production For additional information about this program, click here.
MediaBistro reported that New Haven Advocate, 1975-2013 (New Haven Independent), "a weekly newspaper once known for a mix of gutsy investigative journalism, edgy political commentary, magazine-style feature writing, and savvy arts coverage, died Wednesday following a long illness. It was 38 years old. The cause of death was a changed media landscape combined with corporate cluelessness and cupidity."
Genji Sushi is embracing the power of quinoa by offering a signature blend of red quinoa and brown rice in lieu of white rice at their sushi bars locations inside Whole Foods nationwide. Genji chefs are offering this blend on a variety of rolls, but any roll can be custom made to order with the new red quinoa and brown rice blend, giving customers a more nutritious option as the holiday season commences. Genji’s Corporate Executive Chef Takao Iinuma — protégé of Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto — developed the recipe specifically targeting customers who are looking white rice sushi alternatives. Based on an average roll, the new mixture has more protein, [...]
Texas Monthly will hold its fourth annual BBQ Festival on November 3, 2013 on the City Terrace at the Long Center for the Performing Art at 701 W. Riverside Drive (at the corner of S. 1st Street) Austin, Texas. The event will showcase restaurants from the magazine's ranking of Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas. Guest will experience live music and barbecue sampling beside the shores of Lady Bird Lake. General admission tickets are $58 and VIP tickets, including 2 beverage coupons, 1 t-shirt, 1 Q Card and admission onto the festival grounds one hour prior to general admission holders, are $118. For more information follow click here.
October is National Pizza Month, and what better place to celebrate than New Haven, CT, the birthplace of the first American pizza slice. The first slice is purported to have been served in 1925 at the famed Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria, and since then, New Haven has become known as an authority on pizza, with a number of shops throughout the downtown area. In addition to tasting New Haven’s famous thin crust pizza, visitors can also experience unique menu items and specials at New Haven restaurants this month. National Pizza Month specials include: Kitchen ZINC: In celebration of National Pizza Month, Kitchen ZINC is holding Weekly Pie Fights throughout the month [...]
It’s the battle of the soup kettles when twelve Central Coast chefs showcase their best artisan soups during the 3rd annual Grand Ole Soupabration: Soup, Wine and Wildlife, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2 to 5:30 p.m., at Camp Ocean Pines in Cambria. Tickets are now on sale. Chefs from San Luis Obispo to San Simeon and in between have joined this year’s event to benefit Pacific Wildlife Care in Morro Bay. Judges, including Southern California celebrity chefs and local media personalities will pick the best soups in four categories, while attendees will select a Taster’s Favorite award. Attendees can also sample olive oil, artisan breads, artisan chocolates, cookies and gourmet [...]
In celebration of Yale University’s upcoming Presidential Inauguration Ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, New Haven restaurants are offering special dining deals throughout the weekend. As the city honors Yale’s 23rd president, Peter Salovey, patrons can whet their palates with a variety of mouth-watering options from 18 of New Haven’s most sought-after restaurants. Participating restaurants will offer several different $23 dining options. These include a prix fixe lunch or dinner menu, a sampling of the restaurant’s favorite culinary offerings, or a bottle of wine. For example, Heirloom Restaurant will offer a specialty cocktail called “23.” Caseus Fromagerie & Bistro and Ordinary will offer a $23 cheese and charcuterie platter with [...]
The Greenwich 2013 Wine + Food Festival, a three-day event presented by Serendipity magazine that benefits The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, will take place October 3-5, 2013, at the Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, CT. The festival will feature a Kick-Off Party on Thursday, October 3, a Grand Tasting Gala on Friday, October 4, and the Culinary Village on Saturday, October 5. Thursday evening’s official weekend Kick-Off Party, featuring wines paired with gourmet hors d’oeuvres, is an introduction to the weekend’s featured chefs and event sponsors. The Grand Tasting Gala on Friday evening will feature tastings by the event’s 13 chefs from Connecticut and New York, fine [...]
Hawaii Food & Wine Festival announced its first-ever vodka seminar that takes place on Saturday, September 7, 2013 at Halekulani, Hau Terrace, Honolulu, Oahu. Explore vodka & vodka based cocktails featuring Tony Abou-Ganim, The Modern Mixologist and author of Vodka Distilled. For more information, click here. Tickets are priced at $100 and can be purchased online. Seating is limited to 50 guests.
StubHub Center — 18400 Avalon Blvd. Carson, CA 90746 — will be transformed into The South Bay Food Fest tomorrow, on August 10, 2013. The event will feature over thirty top gourmet food trucks, beer garden, live entertainment, a kid’s fun zone and game truck and much more! Gates will open at 2 pm and will close at 8 pm. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Click here for more info or to purchase tickets.
The third annual Hawaii Food and Wine Festival takes place from September 1-9, 2013 in Honolulu at The Modern, 1775 Ala Moana Blvd in Honolulu. The event includes more than 70 chefs involved in the events, evening activities and educational daytime culinary experiences. Events include cooking classes, a Sunday brunch with a cast of women chefs (Girls Got Game +1) and a wine panel discussion. For more information, please click here. Tickets prices begin at $26.04, depending on the day and/or the event, and can be purchased online.
