GIADA DE LAURENTIIS, ANTHONY BOURDAIN AND ALTON BROWN LIVE IN MIAMI
Tickets available now: http://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/
Beginning October 24 with one of Food Network’s most recognizable faces, Giada De Laurentiis, Miami audiences will have the opportunity to spend one evening each month with their favorite gastronomic gurus in the Arsht Center’s magnificent Knight Concert Hall. Anthony Bourdain will be here on November 14 and Alton Brown will be live on December 13. Each engagement includes an intimate interview about the celebrity chef’s personal culinary journey hosted by one of Miami’s own top chefs, a mouth-watering live cooking demonstration, and a question-and-answer session with the audience. VIP ticket holders will mingle with the Chef and sample food prepared during the demonstration at the VIP party after the show. Tickets from $25-$150.
Spooktacular Halloween at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club 19999
West Country Club Drive, Aventura 33180. (786) 279-6800.
Halloween Dinner on Friday, October 31. Enjoy a four-course Halloween-themed dinner at Cascata Grille in The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club. Menu features smoked salmon with black & orange caviar to start, pumpkin soup, a choice of blackened catfish or squid ink saffron pasta with spiny lobster, and blood orange crème brule. $36 per person, $18 per child ages 5-12; plus tax and gratuity. A la carte menu also available. Complimentary valet parking. 6 to 10 p.m.
CHINA GRILL SOUTH BEACH INTRODUCES ‘THE CLASSICS TASTING
China Grill, 404 Washington Avenue in Miami Beach, 305-534-2211
For those who want to savor what China Grill has been all about for the past 21 years ( in NY and 13 years in Miami Beach), China Grill South Beach introduces a ‘classics tasting menu’ offered for dinner and priced at $69.00 per person (excluding tax and gratuity). The ‘classics tasting menu’ begins with an chef’s “amuse bouche”, and is followed by a six course meal.
Grandi Marchi at The Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables
For the first time in the United States, the 18 members of the Grandi Marchi – Alois Lageder, Ambrogio e Giovanni Folonari Tenute, Antinori, Biondi Santi s.p.a., Ca’ del Bosco, Carpenè Malvolti, Donnafugata, Gaja, Jermann, Lungarotti, Masi, Mastroberardino, Michele Chiarlo, Pio Cesare, Rivera, Tasca D’Almerita, Tenuta San Guido, and Umani Ronchi — will showcase their wines on Tuesday, October 21, 2008, in a day of events at The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. $40 for the general public; $25 Premier and Cellar Club members and $20 for AmEx Premium Access Program . Tickets can be purchased at the door or RSVP to International Event & Exhibition Management at (877) 217- 9867 or by e-mail, RSVP@iem.it . Entrance fee for accredited media and trade professionals is complimentary.
LE PTIT PARIS, A FRENCH BRASSERIE LOUNGE OPENS IN COCONUT GROVE
Le Ptit Paris, 3464 Main Highway, Coconut Grove. 305-445-7331.
Bonjour Le Ptit Paris! French restaurateurs, entrepreneurs and music composers as well as co-owners of Le Bouchon du Grove, Shirley Huon Ducatillon and her husband Regis Ducatillon, have reopened the French restaurant on the corner of Main Highway and Commodore Plaza across the street from the Green Café. What used to be a sizzling Cuban café is now an indoor outdoor Brasserie Lounge with sofas, dining tables and a bar. “If you’re looking for a four star production you are in the wrong place,” he says. “We are all about the ambiance accompanied with simple and healthy food from early breakfast to late night tapas and everything in between.”
Slow Food Annual Members Dinner at the Standard October 22nd
Slowfoodmiami.com
Become a member of the Slow Food International movement and have access to different events throughout the year. On October 22nd, members will dine at the Standard on Miami Beach. Dinner will feature the Navajo Churro Lamb, prepared in the Slow cooking style of the Mediterranean kitchen. Slow cooking is a deliciously rewarding art and there is no one better to capture its sumptuous unhurried charm as renowned Chef Mark Zetouni. Tickets $45 per person all inclusive. Reserve early seating is limited.
