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Get a taste of the Academy and visit GreenLeaf’s table for a sampling of the season’s best! Gather with friends and neighbors in the garden for a Sunday afternoon featuring local chefs, music, and fun for all ages. Sample tasty bites crafted by chefs who employ green practices and learn about local farmers markets, organic gardening, Academy landscaping and more. Celebrate the wonderful fruits of August!

Sunday, August 21: A Taste of Summer
2:00pm – 5:00pm
West Garden, California Academy of Sciences
Learn more and buy tickets here.

Get a taste of the Academy and visit GreenLeaf’s table for a sampling of the season’s best! Gather with friends and neighbors in the garden for a Sunday afternoon featuring local chefs, music, and fun for all ages. Sample tasty bites crafted by chefs who employ green practices and learn about local farmers markets, organic gardening, Academy landscaping and more.

Sunday, July 31: A Taste of Summer
It’s finally summer in San Francisco and the Academy has an incredible lineup for their first event! It’s sure to be sizzling with seasonal treats from hot local chefs so feed your inner foodie and learn about local produce, Academy landscaping practices, and how to garden in the city, all while dancing to funky beats.

Schedule & Location
Sunday, July 31st
2:00pm – 5:00pm
West Garden, California Academy of Sciences
Learn more and buy tickets here.

GreenLeaf is happy to be the home for a Chef’s Lounge event from 3pm to 6pm on Monday, July 11th!

Candise and Rich will host and Chef Kevin Kerciu of A Tastful Affair will be making some appetizers. Chef’s Lounge invites you to bring your own wine and goodies to share (not mandatory). Most importantly, bring your good cheer and conversation … and, get ready for 3 hours of escapism from your daily hustle & bustle to share camaraderie with fellow foodies! Please feel free to extend an invitation to others that you feel would enjoy this event.

“Chef’s Lounge”, created by Todd Spanier – the “King of Mushrooms”, is where food pros, wine makers, brewers, foodies, mushroom people and the occasional purveyor come together for an informal night of food, wine and conversation. It’s a nice, light-hearted evening of some networking, sharing some wine and/or beer, drinking, sharing dishes, sharing lies and all-around fun. Chef’s Lounge is held on the first Monday of the month.

Chef’s Lounge is on Facebook! Check them out here.

We’re really looking forward to the upcoming Taste of Mendocino event at Fort Mason, so we can enjoy the outstanding array of wine and food that the area produces, without the extra 2 hour drive! A county well known for its long and rich history of wine growing, organic food and environmental stewardship, Mendocino is abundant with wine makers, craft distillers, artisan producers, grassfed beefranchers and more. The marketplace at the event will include over 60 wineries, organic beer, olive oil, preserves, eggs, cheese, and grassfed beef and lamb producers, as well as tastings from local Mendocino restaurants.

Taste of Mendocino
Monday, June 13
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Trade & Media Tasting
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Public Tasting
Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center
http://tasteofmendo.com

Another event worth noting is Pinot Days San Francisco, also at Fort Mason, on June 18. 220 winemakers will be on site representing every domestic pinot noir growing region. A Grand Tasting event will take place, along with Oregon Pinot Noir, Twelve Noble Stars: Celebrating Pinot’s Diversity of Style, producer spotlights and a dinner at Scala’s Bistro (each event sold separately). Local specialty food purveyors will be offering tastings for pairing with your favorite Pinot. This is a chance to really get to know this incredibly diverse and delicious wine. A special trade tasting is also available for wine buyers.

Pinot Days San Francisco
Saturday, June 18
(Times vary based on event)
Fort Mason Center
www.pinotdays.com

Spring is here, and the Bay Area food and wine fetes are ramping up. The following is a sampling of upcoming events:

SF Chefs Unite – Japan Relief Benefit Dinner
Saturday, May 7th and 8th @ 6 pm
California Culinary Academy – The Bistro
http://www.sfchefsunite.com/
6 course Japanese-inspired meal paired with sake, beer, wine and cocktails. All proceeds to benefit relief efforts in Japan.

6th Annual Uncorked! Wine Festival
Saturday, May 21st @ 1:00 pm
Ghiradelli Square
www.ghirardellisq.com/events/uncorked-wine-festival/uncorked-wine-festival
Unlimited wine tasting, seminars and chef demonstrations.

TAPAS Grand Wine Tasting
Sunday, June 5th @ 2:00 pm
Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
http://www.tapasociety.org/tapasevents
Focused on domestically produced Spanish and Portuguese varietal wines, with food pairings from local restaurants and purveyors.

Paté and Terrines Class at the Fatted Calf
Saturday, July 30th @ 11am to 3pm
Oxbow Market
http://www.oxbowmarket.com/news_events.php
Learn to prepare paté for all occasions.