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Nosh Pit Weekly Planner: Memorial Day Edition

This week: free burgers, free ice cream, an upcoming Skelly and the Bean event, and a Seattlecentric cookbook signing.

Posted by: Anne Larkin on May 21, 2012 at 11:30AM 0 Comments

Memorial Day and National Burger Day are officially one in the same this year.

WEDNESDAY May 23
Whole Food Veggie Happy Hour Benefit
For one day only: dodge the accidental $20 hot food bar trip; there will be a $6 vegetarian dinner from 5 to 7 at the Westlake Whole Foods. Baked artichokes, asparagus, and corn fritters are on the menu, and all the food sales go to Forterra, a northwest conservation group.

SATURDAY May 26
Mischief Distillery at Tulalip
Tulalip Casino Resort is bringing the Fremont craft distiller out for the summer launch party of the patio at the Mpulse Lounge. Though the letter “i” apparently won’t be in attendance, the founder of Mischief will. The $30 ticket gets you an afternoon of live music, giveaways, liquor-laced snacks, drinks, and…mischief.

Revelry at Col Solare
The first of the summer’s Auction of Washington Wine events takes place at Col Solare winery on Saturday. Aside from the beautiful scenery and 21 winemakers planned to pour at the event there’s an even better reason to make this the highlight of your Memorial weekend getaway: it’ll be raising money for uncompensated care at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

MONDAY May 28 (Memorial Day)
Free Burgers at Li’l Woody’s
The 28th is doing double holiday duty his year: Memorial Day and National Hamburger Day. Actually, there’s some serious debate about the true day o’ the burger, whether it’s May or July 28. The Capitol Hill burger joint is celebrating the May date with free burgers for all from 2 to 5.

Free Scoops for Vets
Old School Frozen Custard is keeping its Memorial celebration, well, old school, and honoring the veterans who the holiday is actually for with free scoops for those who’ve served.

Sidetrack Distillery Feast
The berry liqueur–making crew out at Lazy River Farm is putting on a big Memorial Day party. Food, beer, wine, and sips of Sidetrack are all on the docket. The party starts at 2:30.

Raw, Vegan Potluck
Mayonnaise-y potato salad and a juicy burger not your thing? Those who aren’t taking advantage of Memorial Day as a day to indulge in an entire week’s worth of fat and sugar are meeting up at Discovery Park for a potluck. Drums and durian, that um…pungent fruit, are encouraged.

TUESDAY May 29
African Feast at Skelly and the Bean
From Morocco all the way down to South Africa in four courses for just $40 bucks. Arrive at Skelly and the Bean at 5 for drinks, and dinner begins at 6.

Seattle Cookbooks at Elliott Bay Book Co.
Seattle-o-rama at Elliott Bay. Molly Moon (of… Molly Moon’s), Mark Klebeck (of Top Pot Doughnuts), and Jess Thomson (of Pike Place Market Recipes) will all be at the bookstore signing their books from 5 to 6:30. And there’s promise of samples from all the mouth-watering books…

May Corner Table at Cafe Presse
This month’s Corner Table dinner is a benefit for Green Plate Special, the Central District nonprofit that teaches kids from primarily low-income families how to garden and cook. The Corner table menu will be put together by Laura Dewell, head of Green Plate, and the dinner is $55 with wine pairings. Call Cafe Presse to save your spot at the 6:30 dinner.

BEYOND
July 26 This year marks the third anniversary of the popular event Feast on the Farm. Ethan Stowell cooks, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready jams, and diners get to ride tractors around the farm before sitting down to a salmon-safe, local-food dinner under the sky. Tickets went on sale May 10, and you’d better act fast to get a spot on that tractor.

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Tags: Hamburgers, Molly Moon's, Cafe Presse, Whole Foods, Ethan Stowell, Elliott Bay Book Co, Microdistilleries, Free Food, Top Pot, Washington Wines, Cookbooks, Benefit Dinners, Wine, Wineries, Skelly and the Bean

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner

Boozy weekend: scotch abounds at John Howie and Hop Scotch, cask beer fest, and Taste Washington.

Posted by: Anne Larkin on Mar 26, 2012 at 12:30PM 0 Comments

Two chances for a taste of Glenmorangie this week. Photo courtesty of the Glenmorangie website.

THURSDAY March 29
Spirited Dining at John Howie
Two important men in the world of scotch will be at John Howie this Thursday; the master brand manager and master distiller from Glenmorangie. Each of the courses in the five-course dinner will be accompanied by a carefully chosen Glenmorangie spirit. (And some Scottish accents too, we hope.) The $125 dinner begins at 6:30.

SATURDAY March 31
Taste Washington
More than 200 wineries and dozens of chefs will be at the CenturyLink Event Center this weekend for two days of tastings. Saturday’s highlight: the Canlis Food and Wine Pairing Seminar. Sunday’s: Tom Douglas on the chef stage. Tickets run from $75 to $125, and include as many samplings as you can get your hands on. Careful, large-scale wine tasting can be dangerous, read up on survival strategies first.

Hop Scotch Beer and Scotch Festival
Taste beer, scotch, wine and other spirits in this two-day fundraiser for the Seattle International Film Festival. Tickets run from $15 to $30, and there are optional seminars to take part in to further your scotch knowledge.

Edible Book Festival
Both literary puns and cake abound at the seventh annual competition of homemade edible books. Some of last year’s winners: Un Berryable Lighness of Being and Lord of the Fries. (I like S’More and Peace and Don Quichote in particular.) The event begins at noon with viewing and voting, and the cakes will be eaten at two. If you’re a brilliantly nerdy baker, register your entry by midnight Wednesday, March 28.

Washington Cask Beer Festival
The Brewers Guild will convene at the Seattle Center to share, taste, and discuss more than 70 cask-conditioned beers. The celebration of brewers’ creativity (a favorite in the beer community) is divided into two sessions, one from noon to 4 and one from 5:30 to 9:30—both cost $35 in advance, $40 at the door.

MONDAY April 2
Kids Spring Break Camp
The Kirkland Sur La Table is willing to take your kids off your hands for three days. They’ll learn kitchen fundamentals for the first two days, then get down to what cooking is really all about on Wednesday with a competition. The $120 price tag is worth it just for what they’ll learn to make at home: cornflake crusted chicken fingers, caramel cheesecake bites, and homemade pretzels… (Also, an interesting adult class on Monday—Great Recipes of Seattle. Learn to make the Canlis salad and Dahlia coconut cream pie, among other legends.)

BEYOND
April 5 Savor SLU The SLU Discovery Center will host a variety of restaurants for a sampling of the neighborhood’s offerings on Thursday night at 5. The $35 ticket includes a glass of wine and bites from places like Cuoco and Lunchbox Laboratory.

April 15 Musical Plates, Seattle’s most raucous food tour, is hitting the streets again, this time with the band OK Sweetheart. Guests will be guided around the city to some of the most popular tables, with live music every step of the way. Tickets are $60 before April 6, $75 after, and the event runs for four hours.

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Bin on the Move: Opulent Wine Dinners at Mysterious Locations

On Sunday, Bin on the Lake and Efeste will cohost a feast. We have no idea where.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Feb 17, 2011 at 10:21AM 0 Comments

Brennon Leighton of Efeste cohosts February’s Bin on the Move dinner.

This Sunday, February 20, Bin on the Lake will hold its second Bin on the Move wine dinner.

The way it works is that every third Sunday of every month, the restaurant partners with a local winery (it’s Efeste on the 20th) to create a dinner at some location in “the Puget Sound area.” You buy tickets, and, 24 hours prior to the meal, the restaurant directs you to the location where you’ll be dining.

Curious about the concept, I attended the very first Bin on the Move dinner, at which chef R. Paul Hyman paired courses with wines from Delille Cellars. All I can say is, come hungry. We had lobster gnocchi and quail stuffed with shortbreads and then wrapped in bacon, then some steak and finally some chocolate cake. The food tasted great with the wines, and the whole thing was opulent and glutinous—it would be a fun way to celebrate and anniversary or some such occasion.

The dinner is long and there are endless opportunities to chat with the winemaker if that’s your thing. This, in addition to the fact that I love the wines, is why I would recommend the Efeste dinner this Sunday. I can’t imagine a winemaker who would be more fun to have dinner with than Brennon Leighton.

With tax and gratuity, the ticket price per person is $184.80. When I called the restaurant this morning I was told there are three spots remaining for the Efeste dinner. Tickets available here.

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Tags: Kirkland, Special Dinners, Washington Wines, Seattle Pop-Ups

Taste Washington This Weekend

Who doesn’t love a good food and wine seminar?

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Apr 02, 2009 at 11:00AM 0 Comments

Taste Washington! happens this weekend, with a bunch of wine seminars on Saturday and wine tastings and food samplings on Sunday.

It’s an event that comes with a long history, a once-great reputation…and some recent grumbling. Too much concentration on the food. Too little concentration on the food. Good venue. Bad venue. Blah blah bloggedy blah.

What say you go and judge for yourself. Saturday’s wine seminars happen at Bell Harbor International Conference Center. The big kahuna Grand Tasting ($125 per person) will happen Sunday at the Qwest Events Center, with 200 wineries and 60 restaurants providing complementary nibbles.

My take? Washington wines are the real deal—some realer than others—and on the ascendancy. No proud local oenophile ought to miss this chance to sample the best of them.

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A Little Food with your Wine?

Wine dinners galore

Posted by: Seattle Met Staff on Mar 05, 2009 at 10:00AM 2 Comments

A few upcoming wine dinners to know about:

Purple Café and Wine Bar is billing its new food and wine pairing series as an educational event, so wine novices may want to check it out. It’s a series of six dinners (March 15, April 25, May 31, July 11, September 13, and October 4), each featuring four or five different wines, paired with complimentary dishes.

Try all six tastings for $325; prices vary from $40-$75 for each individual event.

Downtown’s Chihuly-bedecked icon Grill presents a wine dinner next Monday, March 9. Chef Nick Musser will prepare a six-course dinner, specially designed to complement vinos from the Columbia Crest winery. (And take note: Every Wednesday at icon, all Washington wines are 50% off.)

Finally, March is Walla Walla wine month at the Waterfront Seafood Grill. Every Thursday they’ll be doing dinner with a different Walla Walla vineyard. March 15 will be Va Piano Vineyards. Dunham Cellars and Woodward Canyon Winery are also on the list. Prices range from $95-$125.

Happy tippling.

—Katie Zipper

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Tags: Wine, Washington Wines, Wine and Food Pairings, Purple Cafe and Wine Bar, Icon Grill, Waterfront Seafood Grill