Calendar of culinary events
Do you have an event or dinner planned at your restaurant or food emporium? Would you like to let our web visitors know of an upcoming food festival? Is a popular cookbook writer going to autograph copies at your bookstore?
The Calendar of culinary events page on My Table’s website is the perfect way to get the word out. And, it’s free! Just send us an email with the details.
Monday July 13, 2009 – July 17, 2009
Chez Nous (217 S. Avenue G, Humble) will be offering a special Bastille Day menu (along with a little history lesson). Guests are invited to eat like “people” or “royalty.” The Bastille Day menu is $55 per person. Call 281-446-6717 to make a reservation.
Wednesday July 15, 2009
Mockingbird Bistro (1985 Welch at McDuffie) hosts its July wine dinner and welcomes George Bravante of Bravante Vineyards, Napa Valley. Canapes at 6:30 pm, dinner at 7 pm. The four-course dinner is $125 per person, plus tax and gratuity. For reservations and more details, call 713-522-0300.
Friday July 24, 2009 – July 26, 2009
Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg hosts the 3rd Annual Gourmet Chili Pepper and Salsa Festival this weekend. There will be food, tours of the farm, live music and more. For more information and driving directions, call toll-free 1-866-839-3378 or visit www.wildseedfarms.com.
Monday August 10, 2009 – August 23, 2009
Nearly 75 of Houston’s fine-dining restaurants are expected to participate in Houston Restaurant Week. Benefiting the Houston Food Bank, the event brings together the best of Houston’s culinary scene, while offering an opportunity for patrons’ dining dollars to make a difference. Foodies can enjoy a prix fixe, three-course gourmet meal for $35 per person, excluding beverages, tax and gratuity. Participating restaurants will donate $5 of each special meal sold to the Houston Food Bank to help fight hunger. For a list of participating restaurants and more details, visit www.HoustonFoodBank.org.
Saturday August 15, 2009
DrinkLocalWine.com, the website that focuses on North American wine that isn’t made in California and the Pacific Northwest, will hold its first-ever conference and tasting in Dallas. Called the GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Conference, the event will focus on Texas wine, featuring some of the state’s best wines, top winemakers and leading growers. The conference will include three seminars, focusing on trends in Texas wine, the distinctive grapes that Texans are using to make those wines and how consumers can work to get more regional wines in stores and restaurants. The final event of the day will be a Texas Twitter Taste-Off, moderated by Houston’s own Russ Kane of Vintage Texas (www.vintagetexas.com/blog)—and a My Table contributing writer—where participants will be able to taste some of the state’s top wines, pick their faves and spread the word to friends by blog or Twitter at the same time. Texas wineries interested in details on how to participate in the Texas Twitter Taste-off should contact Russ Kane at russ@vintagetexas.com. For registration and schedule information, go to www.DrinkLocalWine.com. For more information about the Texas wine industry, go to www.GOTEXANWine.org.
Sunday October 4, 2009
SAVE THE DATE: The 2009 Houston Culinary Awards will be held at Reef (2600 Travis). This year’s event is co-hosted by My Table publisher Teresa Byrne-Dodge and the 2008 Houston Restaurateurs of the Year, Reef owners Bryan Caswell and Bill Floyd. Tickets are $100 each and will go on sale July 15.
