WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

Local Chefs for Local Farms: Tilth's Four-Course Dinner Supporting Washington Farmland
This sustainability conscious dinner at chef Maria Hines’s Wallingford restaurant Tilth pairs local and organic fare with food for thought. The PCC Farmland Trust, a nonprofit for organic farms in Washington, and chef Hines will host a four-course dinner from 6 to 9 where dinner conversation includes the socioeconomic benefits and challenges of organic farming. The dinner raises awareness and funds for organic farmland preservation. Tickets are $95 per person, which also includes wine. Check out the PCC Farmland Trust website for future events.  

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

Hard Liver Barleywine Festival at Brouwer’s Cafe
At its 13th annual festival—an event older than Brouwer’s Cafe itself—this Fremont pub is pouring over 50 barleywines all weekend. Oh, just the meager 57 draft lines at Brouwer’s will be readily dispensing the strong ale; all of which will be available in 3-, 6-, and 12-ounce sizes. Doors are open at an appropriate 11am on Saturday as well as Sunday for those looking to harden their liver one swill of barleywine at a time.

MONDAY, MARCH 16

Food and Sh*t Filipino Popup Dinner 
Hosted by Inay’s Asian Pacific Cuisine since September 2013, this popup series by Food and Sh*t (the sh*t likely referring to the gastronomic discussions about the reinterpretation of Filipino food, for example) continues with this vegan Filipino dinner titled Sariwa, meaning “fresh” in Tagalog. Unusual for Filipino fare, this entirely vegan menu—the first of its kind throughout the series’s 18-month run—will feature an eggplant and gnocchi adobo, a vegan ube cheesecake, and more in the five-course prix-fixe dinner. The first seating is at 5pm followed by an eight o'clock seating; tickets are $40.

Standard Brewing + Cafe Barjot = Ultimate Beer Dinner
Effectively an ode to all things beer, chef Nick Coffey, formerly of Sitka and Spruce, incorporates beer ingredients such as yeast and malt into four courses of alecentric dishes. Paired with beer by Standard Brewing, this Cafe Barjot dinner includes some creative culinary dishes like hop-cured salmon with grain-fermented vegetables, and malt ice cream with sprouted grains and yeasted caramel. There will be seatings at 6 and 8:30; tickets are $55. Call 206-457-5424 to reserve your spot.

RN74 Launches Guest Chef Dinner Series
Washington Wine Month is still going strong as mid-March approaches and wine events steadily continue like this one at Michael Mina’s Seattle restaurant. A trifecta of talent is combined as chefs John Sundstrom of Lark, Lee Wolen of Boka Chicago, and RN74’s David Varley create a six-course dinner paired with Avennia wines. Chefs aren’t the only guests this evening: Winemaker Chris Peterson of Avennia wines will be present to lend his expertise as well. The dinner will begin at 6:30; tickets are $165 per person. Call 206-962-0452 to reserve your spot.

TUESDAY, MARCH 17

St. Patrick’s Day
Yes, the Guinness-fueled holiday has arrived in all its green-themed-everything glory. Check out our Nosh Pit post about some St. Patrick’s Day happenings.

ADVANCE NOTICE: THURSDAY, MARCH 19

Dinner for Two with SweetBumpas at Jack’s BBQ…again!
Here's a slightly-earlier-than-usual heads up considering the last barbecue-and-sweets event by this team-up sold out rather quickly (smoked meats and desserts…who knew it’d be so popular?). Former Poppy pastry chef Matt Bumpas returns to Jack’s BBQ for an encore of sweets paired with a full barbecue dinner for two. A couple SweetBumpas convections on deck: a peanut butter blondie with basil-cinnamon ice cream and cornflake crumble, and a coffee ice cream and chocolate cookie sandwich with coconut marshmallow. Dinner is from 5 to 8 and tickets are $65 per two people.