If the idea of an adults-only evening where you can sip a glass of wine while checking out the giraffes at the Sacramento Zoo sounds like your kind of night out, then you’re in luck! The Zoo’s annual event is back, (they took a year off in 2015), and the new-and-improved version of the event sounds like it may just be a wild success.
Formerly known as the “Kings of Feasts,” the event has now been re-branded to “Wine & Brew at the Zoo.” This year, 28 local wineries and breweries will serve samples while guests are entertained by live music, a silent auction and of course the exotic zoo animals. Food will be available for purchase from local food trucks with 10% of the sales benefiting the non-profit Sacramento Zoo.
Here are the event details:
What: Wine & Brew at the Zoo
When: Saturday, May 14th, 2016 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Where: The Sacramento Zoo, located at the corner of Land Park Drive & Sutterville Road
Tickets: Purchase tickets online at www.saczoo.org/wineandbrew, or call 916-808-5888
And, SacFoodies has your chance to win tickets! Here’s how: Comment on this blog post OR on the SacFoodies Facebook post and tell us which winery or brewery you are most excited to try at the event (check out the complete list here). We will select a random winner on Friday, May 6th. Winner will be notified via email and/or via Facebook direct message.
Good luck!
Sacramento Beer Week: Track 7 Beer Pairing Dinner at Grange
The SacFoodies are paying close attention to all things Sacramento Beer Week and will be sharing news here on the blog about the events that catch our eye.
First up? Coming up on Thursday, March 3rd, Grange Restaurant & Bar at The Citizen Hotel is hosting a beer-pairing dinner with Track 7 Brewing Co. Executive Chef Oliver Ridgeway will prepare a four-course-tasting menu with pairings by brew master Ryan Graham of Track 7.
Sounds as delicious to you as it did to us? Call 916-492-4450 to reserve your seat now. The cost for this food and beer experience is $65 per person. Space is limited, so don’t wait!
Bites and Brews Demo Class Coming Up
Don’t miss out on a delicious opportunity to learn all about food and craft beer pairings from a local chef. Track 7 Brewing Co. and Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op’s Chef Dio will be teaming up to host Bites and Brews with Track 7 Brewing Co., a demonstration-style cooking class that will inform while offering up small bites and tasty brews for students. The fresh-made dishes will include blistered Padrón peppers with goat cheese; crispy salmon skin sushi rolls with avocado; jerk chicken wings; heirloom tomato and burrata pizza with smoked bacon, and chorizo and potato empanadas with smoky salsa. Need we say more?
Well, maybe a note about the cost. It’s $55, and $45 for Co-op owners. But really, when was the last time you were in a class that let you cook and drink beer? Ok, party university alum put your hands down, we’re all jealous. At any rate, the education and libations are definitely worth the cash
What: Bites and Brews with Track 7 Brewing Co.
When: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Thursday, August 13, 2015
Where: Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op: 1914 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95816
Cost: $45 to $55
RSVP: Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op (916) 868-6399
Cheers! It’s National Tequila Day
Today might arguably be one of the best days of the year. Why, you might ask? Well, it’s National Tequila Day, of course! And this year, we should all celebrate because it’s also on a FRIDAY!! On top of that, it’s summer and here in Sacramento our farmers’ markets and local shops are bursting with the most amazing fresh fruits and veggies to play with in tequila concoctions. This trifecta makes for the ultimate tequila celebration, no excuses.
When thinking about the perfect way to celebrate National Tequila Day, Friday and summer all wrapped into one, it got my head spinning. I love to mix up a good cocktail (see two previous cocktail-filled posts of mine here and here). And specifically with tequila, I frequently make my own at-home infusions (more on that in a future post). However, for National Tequila Day this year I wanted to shake it up a bit (see what I did there?) from my usual fruit and herb-infused margaritas and make something a bit different.
I’m all about tomatoes in the summertime and here in Sac, we get the best of them. They don’t call it Sacratomato for nothing! I know what you’re thinking, “what do tomatoes have anything to do with tequila?” You just wait…
A fresh tomato-mint margarita. I was inspired by this recipe from The Chic Site, with a few little tweaks of my own.
The result is a super refreshing, lightly sweet and yes, tomatoey drink that will leave you wanting another (and another, and another). And, you know what? It’s Friday and National Tequila Day so you have my permission to have an extra one… or two.
Fresh Tomato-Mint Margarita
Adapted from The Chic Site
Ingredients
6 grape tomatoes (yellow, green, orange, red or a combination)
4 large or 6 small fresh mint leaves, plus more for garnish
Juice from 1/2 a lime, freshly squeezed
Juice from 1 lemon, freshly squeezed
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon simple syrup
2 ounces blanco tequila
1/4-1/2 club soda or sparkling water, to taste
Directions
In a cocktail shaker, muddle together the tomatoes, mint leaves, lime and lemon juices.
Pour in the simple syrup and tequila and shake with ice. Pour over ice into serving glass of choice and top with club soda or sparkling water to taste. Garnish with mint leaves, a slice of lime or lemon and a few grape tomatoes on a pick. Makes one large (approximately 8 ounce) drink or two smaller drinks. Cheers!
Get your Piña Colada On!
What’s better than a Friday?
A Friday that falls on National Piña Colada Day, that’s what.
This refreshing tropical indulgence is one of my favorites! Every time I taste one it reminds me of sitting on a beach in the Virgin Islands, getting a tan, listening to the waves…
Ok, back to reality… If you’re in Sacramento and want to give this day the justice it deserves (without hopping on a flight), you’ll need to do one of the following:
- Watch this video tutorial and make a rockin’ home-made version for you and your friends tonight. Make your presentation even cooler by serving it in a pineapple cup. They’ll be impressed you took the time to lovingly carve each one.
- Head to midtown Zocalo and get my favorite piña colada in town.
- Do both 1 and 2 – I recommended in that order because who knows what your pineapple cups would look like after 2.
Photo courtesy of cookingchanneltv.com
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