Whet Your Appetite: Free event with 18 food/wine vendors, UCSC wine tasting, Silicon Val. discounts

October 19, 5:29 PMSanta Cruz Restaurant ExaminerTara Fatemi Walker

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Another week with lots of fun events in Santa Cruz and nearby – Bon Appetit!

Kelly’s French Bakery Hosts Huge Dinner Market
This Saturday, October 24, Kelly’s French Bakery is hosting its second community-building dinner market from 4-7pm; the first one in June drew 800 people. It’s an amazing event – read details here  – where you can choose to buy ready-to-eat dishes from a dozen food vendors (restaurants such as Ristorante Avanti and Nuevo Southwest Café, caterers, farms, and more), plus several wineries such as Pelican Ranch and Bonny Doon and the Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery.

Silicon Valley Restaurant Week: $35 Three-course Dinners
Like our own Santa Cruz Restaurant Week in early October, Silicon Valley Restaurant Week offers eight days of fixed-price, three-course menus at many locations. The event started October 14 and lasts until October 21; 88 restaurants are participating including several in Los Gatos and many in San Jose. The price is $35; other cities include Campbell, Santa Clara, and Los Altos. See menus here.

Book Reading, Signing and Wine Tasting with UCSC Alum Randall Grahm
Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard is participating in a book reading and wine tasting at UCSC this Thursday from 5-7pm. Randall is an alum of UCSC. Guests must be 21 years of age and up; the location is Kresge College’s Provost House. Grahm’s new book is “Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology (for details on the book and more on Randall, read my preview of a similar event). For more information, contact Shann Ritchie at (831) 459-5655 or sritchie@ucsc.edu.

SAVE THE DATE
November 5: The 5th annual A Taste of Santa Cruz will be held from 5:30-9pm. Live auction items include a winemaker dinner for 12 at Silver Mountain Winery, a surf lesson with local legend Adam Replogle, and a weekend at the new Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. Like the September 26 A Taste of Soquel event, ticket-buyers get to sample food and drinks from many restaurants and wineries – and the $30 admission goes to a good cause. A Taste of Santa Cruz helps provide grant funds for first time, low-income home-buyers in Santa Cruz County. More details soon!

November 6: The 26th Annual Evening of Wine and Roses is a benefit wine and food festival for Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust; the location is the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds. A $50 admission fee enables guests to taste top wines from the Santa Cruz Mountains, sample gourmet hors d’oeuvres from area restaurants and caterers, enjoy fresh Pajaro Valley roses, and bid on exciting silent and live auction prizes. More details coming soon.

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