Beer Chef Slow Food Weekend Stone Dinner

If you are at all interested in food culture or in eco-sustainability and the whole green movement, it’s hard to miss all the hubbub that has been brewing over the huge Slow Food Nation event in town this weekend.  I won’t be able to make it, unfortunately, since I’ll be in LA for a wedding.  However, much as I would love to try all the slow bites on offer in the tasting expo over the weekend, at least know I can taste some slow brews Thursday night at Bruce Paton’s dinner.

Dinner with the Beer Chef is a near-monthly event put on by Bruce Paton, the Executive Chef at the Cathedral Hill Hotel.  It’s a multi-course dinner with dishes he has prepared to match beers from a particular craft brewer that will be served with each course. His Five Guys and a Barrel dinner in April was one of the most spectacular beer dinners I’ve been lucky enough to attend.

This Thursday, August 28th, the Dinner with the Beer Chef is slow food themed, in preparation for a weekend that will be full of slow food events. The beers served will be from Stone, a San Diego-area brewery known for their hoppy IPAs that has built a shrine to organic, local, sustainable foods and beer in their beautiful ‘Bistro and World Gardens’ in Escondido, CA.  The food will be a awesome-sounding three course menu prepared with seasonal ingredients from more local, Northern California farms than I can name here.  Check it out for yourself.  I’m not sure if there are spaces left at this dinner, but if it sounds good to you, it’s worth going to the Beer Chef’s website where you can make a reservation or get more information about future events.