A Packed Week of Events

Monday—The weekly Piatto per Tutti cooking class and Foodie Trivia Contest are taking place tonight.
Tuesday—Simply Divine Brownies is hosting a brownie tasting to celebrate their Grand Opening. Bar Lola is holding a wine dinner featuring wines from Portugal. A cooking class is taking place at SMCC.
Wednesday—The Monument Square Farmers’ Market takes places in the morning. In the evening, there’s a Slow Food Dinner at Cinque Terre with guest Douglas Gayeton, author of Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town. There’s also a cooking class taking place at Black Tie Bistro.
Thursday—Wine tastings are scheduled to take place at Leavitt & Sons and Kitchen and Cork. There will be a launch party for Shipyard Prelude at Portland Pie. Vignola is holding their 4th Annual Allagash Tasting Dinner, and Port Sports is organizing a Mead Crawl which will finish up at Novare Res to taste Maine Mead Works’ new Lavender Mead.
Friday—Rosemont Market on Congress Street is holding a wine tasting.
Saturday—The Deering Oaks Farmers’ Market takes places in the morning. In the afternoon Barbara Lynch, chef/owner of No. 9 Park and James Beard Award for Best Chef Northeast in 2003 will be at Rabelais for a book signing for her work Stir: Mixing it Up in the Italian Tradition.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.