Your guide to the tastiest foodie happenings going down this week. Bon appetit!
Harvest Dinner at Spoonbar
Prepare your palate for greatness. This Sunday, November 9 at 6 pm, Spoonbar executive chef Louis Maldonado will team up with local purveyors and farmers to create a custom menu celebrating the end of the 2014 harvest. The three-course meal—featuring fresh ingredients from Front Porch Farms, Bohemian Creamery and Preston Farm and Winery—will include Local Wheat + Sourdough Bread with chopped herbs and pecorino cheese; Kung Pao Cinta Senese Pork Shoulder with wild persimmon glaze and celery salt; and Roasted Pepper Salsa, and chicken crackling. Delish! The beverage menu for the night will showcase Idlewild Wines, as well as spirited cocktails from Spirit Works and Moonlight Brewery Ale. Tickets are $80 per person, buy them now. 219 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg
Happy Hour Menu at Beso
SF's newest tapas restaurant, Beso, kicked off a new (and insanely cheap) happy hour last week. Every day (including weekends) from 5-6 pm all happy hour menu items will be either $5 or $6—including their mouthwatering patatas bravas and refreshing sangria. 4058 18th Street, San Francisco
Project Juice Unveils New Line of Wellness Shots
Need a wellness boost to get you through flu season? Project Juice just launches a series of new "shots" that are just what the doctor ordered. Try the E3 Energy, a blue-green algae shot with over 65 vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids, or the Flu Shot, an improvement on the classic elixir with the added benefits of echinacea and reishi. 50 Post, San Francisco
Drink in the Christmas Spirit
For the second year, Anchor Distilling Co. has distilled the previous year's Anchor Brewing’s seasonal Christmas Ale to create Christmas Spirit, a white whiskey from Christmas past. Available from early November to mid-January, you'll want to add this smoothy spirit to your holiday shoppping list. Don't forget to keep a bottle or two for yourself. Now available at most Bay Area liquor stores
Huxley Opens in the Tenderloin
The new 25-seat, Bon Vivants-designed restaurant offers modern and rustic fare, with all ingredients sourced from Bay Area farms. Don't miss the house-smoked whipped lardo. 846 Geary, San Francisco
Relais & Chateaux 60th Anniversary Dinner
On Sunday, November 9 and Monday, November 10, Bay Area gourmands and Italophiles will have the opportunity to attend a dinner at 2-Michelin-Starred Quince, featuring acclaimed guest chef Valeria Piccini from Da Caino in Italy. Chefs Tusk and Piccini will present a special, collaborative 6-course pre-fixe dinner featuring: Quince Canapes; Anchovy Tart with tomato sorbet, pappa al pomodoro;Trofie with Nantucket bay scallop, golden osetra caviar; Tortelli Ripieni Di Cinta Senese with chestnut and hen broth; Paine Farm Squab with farro, porcini mushroom, and treviso radicchio; Orange and "Maurizio Menichetti" Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Emulsion with goat's milk gelato, peruvian 'peppercorn'; and Migniardises. The dinner is $250 per person without beverages. Make reservations here. 470 Pacific, San Francisco
