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FOOD
The Social Scholar is bringing you the best and latest in food, here's what's on tap nationwide this week: Fattycakes
Cookies Coming straight out of Brooklyn,
Fattycakes bakes delciious homemade cookies shipped straight to your door.
Order a few dozen and see for yourself. Check them out: http://fattycakesny.com/ Cost: $15 per dozen  You
Bars Create your own granola bar, cookie or cereal
from this laundry list of organic ingredients. They sure beat chewing on
cardboard-tasting energy bars. Check them out: http://www.youbars.com/ Cost: $32 for box of 13 Cooper’s BBQ Delivery Get
some of the best barbeque in Texas Hill Country delivered straight to your
door. The meat is pit-roasted for hours before being vacuum packed and shipped
by next day mail. Once you’ve tasted their brisket, there’s no going back. Buy
it here: http://www.coopersbbq.com/default.asp
Chow
down on 5,000 pounds of free crawfish while listening to some killer Cajun
blues and rock bands. Stick around for the late night belly dancers and
burlesque show if you’ve still got the energy. Saturday
April 10th at 10am The
Parking Lot, Details:
http://www.roadwayevents.com/RoadStar/Events-cat.asp?media1Id=1521
Admission
is $10 Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Fest This
national touring festival is back in town this Saturday offering unlimited
amounts of all that’s good in the three B’s: beer, bourbon and bbq. Saturday
April 10th at noon Timonium
Fairgrounds map
Cost is
$55 15th Annual Taste of
the Thursday
April 8th at 6:30pm Prudential
Skywalk Observatory, Details:
http://www.nabbonline.com/ Tickets
are $75, with proceeds benefitting Clarendon Street Playground Baconfest Saturday
April 10th from 11am until 2pm and 3pm until 6pm Details:
http://baconfestchicago.com/ Admission
is $45 Pay
your $40 at the door and enjoy unlimited pours for the next three hours at this
gathering of 20+ breweries in Saturday
April 10th at 1 pm (2nd session starts at 5 pm) Sony
Pictures Studio map
Cost is
$40 Bavarian Spring Festival When
you start with beer and brats there’s really no way to go but up. The 85th
annual Stiftungfest gets under way this Saturday evening. Saturday
April 10th at 7:30 pm CVV map
Cost is
$12 Flavor Tripping Enjoy
this completely legal version of LSD for your taste buds; “Trippy Fruit”
transforms the way your taste buds process flavors making sour food sweet and
hot sauce taste like donut glaze. It only lasts a couple of hours and is
certainly not an everyday experience. Friday
April 9th at 7 pm EFN
Lounge map
Cost is
$12 Bee-Raw Honey Channel your inner
Winnie the Pooh with these ridiculously tasty honey varietals. Each flavor has
a distinct taste, similar to different types of wine or coffee, and supports
the artisanal beekeepers that produce it. Buy it here: http://bee-raw.com/ Cost: $12 for one jar,
discounts for packages LA Street Food Fest What’s better than street meat? We hope you answered nothing, because this all day festival celebrating all that comes on a stick- as well as all the all the meals on wheels that don’t- is showing the best of what LA has to offer. Saturday February 13th from 11 am to 5 pm LA Center Studios map Pay the $30 VIP pass and get access to private bathrooms Valentine’s Day Beer Dinner What better way to say I Love You than over a freshly poured ale? Sunday February 14th at 6 pm Cost is $60 Choptank Fans of the Now open Choptank map Bacon Chocolate Looking for a great Valentine’s gift for the carnivore in your life? Pick from this array of bacon-based chocolates. Buy it here: http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/category/bacon_and_chocolate Washington DC DC Meat Week Meat lovers finally get their time in the sun as local BBQ restaurants do all they can to celebrate the glory that is meat. Now through Saturday February 6th Details: www.meatweekisreal.com
Learn to Cook The executive and pastry chefs of DC Coast are all set to show a room full of men how to cook a romantic Valentine’s Day meal. Apparently they don’t find the blue box blues as sexy as you do. Saturday February 6th at 11 am DC Coast map Cost is $75 Details: contact jillian@passionfoodhospitality.com to make a reservation Los Angeles Big Chill Beer Dinner Make sure you get on this four course meal/beer pairing early, as tickets won’t last long between the food and drink menu. Thursday February 4th at 6:30 pm Alcatraz Brewing Company map Cost is $65 Details: www.alcatrazbrewing.com NC Triangle Big Boss Dinner The Broad Street Café is putting together one big, bad beer paired dinner with five courses and five beers included for only $40. Monday February 8th at 7 pm The Broad Street Café map Cost is $40 Details: www.thebroadstreetcafe.com Baltimore Chocolate Benefit Have you always felt that the jumbo bags of M&Ms just didn’t have enough chocolate for you? Then you’re in luck, as the 19th annual Chocolate Affair benefit for Health Care for the Homeless is going on in M&T Bank Stadium. Thursday February 4th at 6 pm M&T Bank Stadium map Tickets start at $85 Details: www.chocolateaffair.org Clipper City Brewery is hosting their 3rd Annual Beer and Oyster Fest with an all you can eat and drink policy of seafood, pit beef, frites and of course, your Heavy Seas favorites. Saturday February 6th Tickets are $49 Details: www.ccbeer.com Columbus Hockey and All You Can Eat The Blue Jackets have come up with an ingenious method of getting fans in the seats: great hockey and all you can eat hot dogs, chicken fingers, popcorn, peanuts, Pepsi and more. The question is, will people still be able to fit in them. Thursday February 4th at 7 pm Nationwide Arena map Tickets are just $39 (including the all you can eat deal) New York City Hill Country Challenge Hill Country BBQ has drawn a line in the sand and they are daring you to step over it. The Feed Your Face Challenge is going on now: ½ lb of brisket, ½ lb of lean brisket, ½ lb of beef shoulder, ½ of prime rib, 1 small hot side, 1 small cold side, 32 oz. soft drink and 1 cupcake all in 1 hour with no bathroom breaks. Eat it all and the meal is on the house, plus you’ll receive a hat, t shirt and a photo on the Wall of Cue. Fail and you’ll be paying out $65 (the cost of all that food). The real question is, will your significant other be proud or disappointed that you actually ate it all. Any day, any time Hill Country map Free or $65 depending on the outcome Details: http://www.hillcountryny.com/assets/file/Feed-Your-Face.pdf
Mara’s Homemade Feel like watching the game from Sunday February 7th Mara’s Homemade map
Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka The wholesome southern
drink served by grandmothers everywhere is all grown up with this remarkably
tasty alcoholic twist. Details: http://www.fireflyvodka.com/ Cost: $25
Bacon Chocolate Looking for a great
Valentine’s gift for the carnivore in your life? Pick from this array of
bacon-based chocolates. Buy it here: http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/category/bacon_and_chocolate
Philadelphia 2nd Annual Beef and Beer Tired of your own Natty Light and $1 menu burger Beef and Beer night? Join the South Philly Taproom for their second annual event featuring a delicious prime rib, with all the fixin’s, and some of the top beers from around the world for an all you can meat and drink event. Sunday January 31st at 5 pm South Philadelphia Taproom map Details: www.southphiladelphiataproom.com Baltimore Winter Restaurant Week With over 90 restaurants included in this winter’s event, there’s no better time to give those expensive spots a chance. Restaurants all over the city Three courses for $35 Details: www.baltimorerestaurantweek.com
Pints and Pancakes Breakfast just like your family had growing up: Dad on the griddle and mom on the, uh, keg. Have a bit of the hair of the dog this Sunday at T Bonz. Sunday January 31st at 10 am T Bonz Grille and Pub map $5 cover includes free breakfast Details: www.tbonzgrille.com
Gourmet Market Tour Stop behind the counter and into the stock rooms of five of the top specialty shops around. The four hour tour will answer the questions you’ve been pondering for all these years like how do ingredients and handling procedures affect the taste of artisan cheese and how exactly do you boil water. Saturday Janaury 30th at 10:30 am Wen Chocolates map Cost is $89 Details: www.culinaryconnectors.com
New York City
New York Restaurant Week With hundreds of restaurants participating in the deal, everyone from One If By Land to Mr Chow’s, now is the perfect time to try that rather pricey spot you’ve always wanted to hit. Running now through February 7th Details: www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek
Homebrew Kit If those watered-down
light beers aren’t doing the trick anymore, do it yourself. This basic
homebrewing system is all you need, just pick your favorite flavor kit and in a
few weeks you’ll have five gallons of your personalized brew. Cost: $65.95 Buy it here: http://homebrewery.com/beer/beer-gs-basic-kit.shtml
Tailwaiters.com Looking to throw a
monster tailgate but don’t have any pledges to do the dirty work? Just log on
and pick a package and Tailwaiters will deliver and cook your food and clean up
after you and all of your sloppy friends. It’s also a great way to tailgate if
you don’t bring a car to the stadium. Content Management Powered by CuteNews
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