Wino Games & A Tasteful Pursuit

the tablehopper | 10:33 am | August 5, 2009 | Events, Foodie 411

Wino Games

Ame Restaurant is hosting a wine challenge during the month of August, so get ready to put your taste buds to the test! The drinking game goes like this: they will be pouring diners a flight of three anonymous wines. You’ll be given the names of the three grapes in no particular order and will have to identify each wine. If you guess all three correctly, the wines are on the house! If you guess them inaccurately, then you get the check. The Wine Challenge is only available while dining in the restaurant; not available in the lounge/bar.

689 Mission St. at 3rd St., 415-284-4040.

A Tasteful Pursuit

Five talented Bay Area chefs will join forces for one special evening this summer (on Monday August 17th, 2009) to help in the fight against childhood hunger in America. Masa’s executive chef Gregory Short and executive pastry chef John McKee will host A Tasteful Pursuit, a five-course fundraising dinner benefiting Share Our Strength. Chef Short hopes to make it an annual event.

Guest chefs include Mark Dommen, chef/partner of One Market Restaurant, executive chef Xavier Salomon of The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, and William Werner, executive pastry chef of Quince.

It all begins at 6pm with a reception and silent auction in the lobby of the Executive Hotel Vintage Court, adjacent to Masa’s. At 7pm, guests will venture into the Masa’s dining room for a five-course dinner, along with a live auction. Masa’s Master Sommelier Alan Murray will pair the courses with wine or beer.

Masa’s Restaurant
648 Bush St.
Cross: Powell St.
San Francisco, CA

6pm reception
7pm dinner

$150 (including tax, gratuity, and wine pairings)
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