Food & Wine Events – Page 7

An Evening on the Beach

DST Chefs, Dine, Food & Wine Events, Restaurants September 5, 2018May 26, 2019

An Evening on the Beach will return to the Jonathan Beach Club on Thursday, September 13, 6pm. The evening will be a memorable oceanside celebration of food, wine, specialty cocktails and live music as the summer sun sets over the ocean. Dress is casual and shoes are optional.

LA Food & Wine

DST Chefs, Dine, Food & Wine Events, Restaurants August 24, 2017May 26, 2019

The four-day seventh annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival will showcase national culinary personalities and LA food and drink culture at venues across Los Angeles. Many Santa Monica chefs are represented, and two of the festival’s main events will be held at Barker Hangar.

BC Seafood Expo

DST Dine, Food & Wine Events, Travel July 11, 2017May 26, 2019

A highlight of the BC Shellfish and Seafood Festival is the BC Seafood Expo for the seafood trade and industry. The Expo offers speakers, talks, keynotes, workshops, exhibitor booths, and networking events to help shellfish researchers, poducers, exporters, distributors, educators and associations keep abreast of innovations, challenges and opportunities in the industry.

BC Shellfish Festival

DST Dine, Food & Wine Events, Travel July 11, 2017May 26, 2019

British Columbia is a major producer of high quality seafood, harvesting over 100 seafood species; local Santa Monica Seafood supplies it to restaurants throughout LA and Orange County. BC seafood represents over half of Canada’s aquaculture production, and it is so important to BC’s economy that the month of June has been designated as BC Seafood Month by provincial proclamation

Drago Dishes

DST Chefs, Dine, Entertainment, Food & Wine Events, Restaurants September 3, 2016May 26, 2019

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few months, you have no doubt heard of Th Taste, the epicurean festival presented by Los Angeles Times and Food & Wine over the Labor Day weekend, September 2-5.

Savoring the Central Coast: In Pismo Beach

DST Chefs, Dine, Food & Wine Events, Travel February 2, 2016May 26, 2019

Located half way between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the beach town of Pismo Beach works both as a weekend get away from LA, or as a convenient mid-way stop en route. Besides long stretches of beaches, Pismo boasts the most extensive coastal dunes in California that are accessible with the convenience of a pier and beach boardwalk.

Culinary Award

DST Chefs, Dine, Food & Wine Events June 6, 2013May 26, 2019

On June 7, the California Restaurant Association will present its the Elizabeth Burns Lifetime Achievement to local chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken of Border Grill at a gala held in their honor at Hotel Casa del Mar.

The founders of Border Grill restaurants and truck and City restaurants, as well as Susan Feniger’s Street gained national fame from their Food Network show “Too Hot Tamales.” “Mary Sue and Susan are pioneers in so many ways,” said Jot Condie, CRA president and CEO. “They not only paved the way for women wanting to work in the industry, they have popularized styles of world cuisine and were two of the world’s original celebrity chefs.

That kind of legacy will never be replicated.” For more than 30 years, Feniger and Milliken have worked amongst the upper echelon of restaurateurs in Los Angeles, where they landed　The duo landed in Los Angeles after working together in Paris and at Chicago’s famed Le Perroquet, and have worked here for more than 30 years amongst the upper echelon of restaurateurs.

With the opening of City Cafe on Melrose Avenue in 1981, the pair changed the culinary landscape of the city by blending family recipes with eclectic dishes from Thailand, India, Mexico, France and Italy. The first Border Grill opened in 1985, and has expanded to include four locations – including one in Las Vegas – as well as a mobile truck. Along with “Too Hot Tamales,” they also were featured on the “Tamales World Tour” series and “Top Chef Masters,” as well as several radio shows.

Along the way, they co-authored five cookbooks.　They also manage to play an active role in the community, providing leadership for many associations, charities and organizations, including Share Our Strength, the Scleroderma Research Foundation and the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center and the Human Rights Campaign.　

The California Restaurant Association is the trade organization of the California restaurant and hospitality industry with more than 22,000 member restaurants. A portion of the event proceeds will support the CRA Educational Foundation and ProStart programs in the Los Angeles are

Street Food

DST Chefs, Dine, Food & Wine Events August 23, 2012May 26, 2019

What local restaurant Border Grill’s chef-owner Susan Feniger gleefully refers to as the `the cyclone that is my life’ just packed up considerable fresh momentum. Along with co-authors Kajsa Alger and Liz Lachman, she has just come out with a new book, STREET Food: Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes, promotion for which is now in full swing.