Chef Rob Evans will be preparing a Fire & Fowl dinner on May 6th at the new Duckfat Beer Garden collaboration with Oxbow Brewing. The dinner is a benefit for Full Plates Full Potential.

Join us for an evening of culinary and brewed delights celebrating a feast of seasonal flavors. Chef Rob Evans with his expert team at Duckfat, alongside the master craft brewers of Oxbow Blending & Bottling, and local fisherpeople, farmers and foragers come together to create a menu featuring the earthy bounty of spring in Maine. Craft cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, fire-driven full-course dinner and dessert with beverage pairings, live music, and two to-be-announced, money-can’t-buy auction packages featuring the talents who will bring this meal to life.

Tickets are available online.

Tipo is launching a guest chef pizza series during April and May. Each Wednesday night for the next two months Tipo will be selling a custom pie designed by a local chef:

• April 4 – Courtney Loreg, Woodford F&B
• April 11 – Pete Sueltenfuss, The Otherside Delicatessen
• April 18 – Brant Dadaleares, Gross Confections Bar
• April 25 – Lucy and Ian Dutch, Dutch’s
• May 2 – Krista Kern Desjarlais, The Purple House
• May 9 – Karl Deuben and Chef Bill Leavy, East Ender
• May 16 – Mike Wiley & Chef Andrew Taylor, Hugo’s/Eventide/Honey Paw
• May 23 – Ilma Lopez, Piccolo/Chaval
• May 30 – Jason Loring, Nosh/Hunker Down

A few years ago Blue Rooster did something similar with guest chef designed hot dogs, and a food blogger named Chubby Werewolf stepped up to write a review of each week’s special. I wonder who will be game for writing about all 9 of the pies in this series.

This year’s Fabulous Femmes dinner is scheduled to take place on April 22nd at Chaval and tickets are now available online. The benefit dinner for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital is a collaboration of among an all female line-up of many of Maine’s most outstanding culinary talents:

• Cara Stadler from Tao Yuan​, Bao Bao​, and Lio
• Krista Kern Desjarlais from The Purple House and Bresca And The Honey Bee​
• Melissa Kelly from Primo Restaurant
• Kim Rodgers from Eventide, The Honey Paw, Hugo’s, and Little Spruce Baking Co.
• Ilma Lopez from Chaval and Piccolo
• ​Briana Holt from Tandem Coffee
• Alysia Zoidis from East End Cup Cakes
• Erica Archer from Wine Wise

Portland Wine Week (website, facebook, instagram, twitter) is launching a weekly email newsletter. It’s a great way to keep informed on all the new events and ticketing availability—one event has already sold out and others are on there way.

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Tuesday – Elda is holding an Austrian wine dinner, the MRA Awards Banquet is taking place, and American Sommelier is holding a Sparkling wine tasting at CloudPort.

Wednesday – Black Tie is teaching a cooking class.

Thursday – there will be a Canary Island wine tasting at Maine & Loire and a Corsican wine dinner at Petite Jacqueline, and the New England Brew Summit is taking place.

Friday – there will be a wine tasting at Maine & Loire with Spanish wine maker Fredi Torres, a wine tasting at the Brighton Ave Rosemont, and Bodegas Albamar wine dinner at Chaval.

Saturday – an Oakleaf dinner is taking place at Fork Food Lab, and the Winter Farmers’ Market is taking place.

Sunday – Foley’s/Scattoloni is teaching a baking class.

For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.