What’s the Dish?

Your Chowder hounds have sniffed down the best culinary events in town. Check back every Thursday for your weekly prix-fixe of foodie festivals, cooking classes, wine tastings, and more.

Aug. 23, 3-6 p.m.
Free Beer Mess!
The Wine Gallery
Sounds like our freshman year. We weren’t quite sure how to handle it. Hence, the mess. But now that we’re older and wiser, The Wine Gallery trusts us with more than 50 free beers to sample from multiple New England brewers. You have three hours to get your beak wet.

Aug. 24, 4:30 p.m.
Farm to Fork Dinner
Still River Cafe, Eastford, CT
Situated in a restored 150-year-old barn on an organic farm in Connecticut, the dinner will include a tour of the vegetable gardens and kitchen, a discussion of organic gardening and cooking techniques, followed by a seven-course tasting menu featuring produce grown just feet from the restaurant’s door.

Aug. 26, 6:30 p.m.
Summer Vegan Dinner Series
Upstairs on the Square, Cambridge
Here’s to proving that going Vegan isn’t all tofurkey! Steven Brand‘s menu for this night of eating your greens includes all locally grown produce, freshly prepared in unique ways.

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