Perilla Kitchen pop-up, Titanic dinner, The Real Good Life at Metcalfe’s, and more things to know in food and drink news
Chef Jenny Lee of Perilla Kitchen will hold a dinner March 6 at Amilinda, 315 E. Wisconsin Ave., under her pop-up restaurant's name, Kiuda. Kiuda means “nourish” in Korean, and reflects Lee’s menu selection for the dinner, which includes smoked pork kimchi stew, smoked tofu stew, Korean barbecue beef (known as bulgogi), potato salad, cabbage slaw with vinaigrette, seasoned sesame vegetables, Napa cabbage kimchi, rice and patbingsu, a Korean shaved-ice dessert with fruit and sweet red beans. Guests who eat halal can choose the smoked tofu stew or request halal bulgogi a week before the event.
Tickets are $70 a person. Purchase online at www.exploretock.com/amilinda/
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Sail first class at Titanic dinner
The Friends of Old Falls Village will host a Titanic-themed dinner benefit on April 15 at The Preserve at Silver Spring, N56 W21318 Silver Spring Drive in Menomonee Falls. Formal black-tie attire is requested for the event, which features a six-course dinner menu of items served in the first class ala carte dining room aboard the RMS Titanic.
Dinner begins with the shrimp Canapes a l’Amiral, followed by lemony mushroom crostini, poached salmon with mousseline sauce, vegetable marrow farci and asparagus salad with champagne saffron vinaigrette. The fifth course offers a choice of chicken lyonnaise or roast sirloin forestiere, both served with green beans and chateau potatoes. The dessert course is Waldorf pudding, a custard with apples and walnuts. Champagne is included with dinner.
Tickets are $115 a person, or $220 a couple. Reservations are required by April 1 and can be made on eventbrite.com
Taste & Toast arrives with specials downtown
Discounted cocktails and appetizers will be available during Downtown Milwaukee’s Taste & Toast event, from 4 to 7 p.m. Feb. 27 through March 3.
Beverages include both nonalcoholic and alcoholic options, and food menus have specially priced small plates of ribs, chicken sliders, Irish tacos and gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan-friendly items.
Participants include: Blue Bat Kitchen & Tequilaria, Central Standard Crafthouse & Kitchen, Cubanitas, DOC’s Commerce Smokehouse, East Town Kitchen and Bar, Giggly Champagne & Wine Bar, The Knick, Lobby Lounge at Pfister Hotel, Lucky Clover Irish Pub, McGillycuddy’s Bar & Grill, Oak Barrel Public House, Onesto, Red Rock Saloon, Smoke Shack, State Street Pizza Pub, Third Street Tavern, Turning Tables Tavern & Eatery, and Who’s on Third.
Reservations are encouraged where accepted. View Taste & Toast menus online at www.TasteToastMKE.com
The Real Good Life is available at Metcalfe’s
Single-serving, ready-to-heat meals from The Real Good Life are now available at Metcalfe’s Market, 6700 W. State St. in Wauwatosa. The Real Good Life is a Wauwatosa-based meal delivery service specializing in locally sourced, made-from-scratch entrees, and this is the company’s first venture into retail product sales.
The entrees available at Metcalfe’s include four vegetarian meals: a spinach pesto pasta, a spinach and farro salad, and a garlic hoisin power bowl, each priced at $9.99; and butternut squash and goat cheese lasagna for $11.99. To view the menu of meals offered for delivery by The Real Good Life, visit therealgoodlife.com.
Sample food at Let's Talk Womxn bash
Let's Talk Womxn Milwaukee, a group of women restaurateurs and entrepreneurs, is celebrating International Women's Day and Women's History Month with a party open to the public on March 8. It kicks off at 6 p.m. at the Starling event venue, 108 N. Water St.
Visitors can check out more than 20 tasting stations by women-led food and drink businesses. There also will be dancing to music by DJ TruStar.
Businesses taking part are Anomoly Catering, Batter MKE, BB Cakes, Buddah Luv, Charcuter-Me, Cocoa Tree Confectionary, Cottonmouth Cotton Candy, Delicious Bites, Flour Girl & Flame, Frannie's Market, Full Circle Healing Farm, Happy Joy Candy Floss, Honeypie Cafe, Hot Boxed Pizza, Joy Ice Cream Social, Kelly's Greens, Little Village Play Cafe, Meat on the Street, Modern Maki, Palomino, The Pasta Tree, Outwoken Tea, Smallpie, Style Pop Cafe, Sweetly Baked, The Real Good Life and Tots on the Street.
A ticket to the event is $100 and available through eventbrite.com.
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee food, drink events: Perilla Kitchen, Titanic food, Good Life
