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Devil Of A Beer Brunch At Secco This Sunday

Once again it is time for another beer brunch at Secco Wine Bar this Sunday FeBREWary 24th.  This is not like past beer brunches as it features a tap takeover from Devils Backbone, best small brewer in the US, as well as an almost completely new menu.  You should also know if you skip this beer brunch you will have to wait two months for the next one as the last Sunday in March is Easter.

feBREWary BEER BRUNCH MENU
available 11AM – 3PM

coffee cake w/ molasses butter

roasted beets, mixed greens, whipped chèvre, orange vinaigrette, walnuts & smoked honey

celery root soup w/ lemon & chives (option to add fried egg)

grilled porchetta, egg & cheese on house made bun w/ tomato mustarda & house fries

apple, fennel, gruyere & whole grain mustard panino on sub rosa polenta bread w/ house fries

huevos rancheros w/ cilantro crema (option to add braised pork)

French toast w/ vanilla butter, maple syrup, pear compote, house bacon & hash browns

shrimp & scallop quiche w/ mixed green salad

veal meatballs w/ creamy herbed polenta, tomato sauce & fried egg

Devils Backbone Tap Takeover

Schwartz Bier — toasty, german-style black lager

Belgian Congo Pale Ale — Belgian style IPA

Danzig Baltic Porter — special edition spiked with local coffee.

This is a non-ticketed event and all items are served a la carte. Seating will be done on a first come, first served basis. Email info@seccowinebar.com or call (804) 353-0670 to get reservations for parties of five to eight.  Keep in mind that Secco’s size means the smaller your party, the quicker they will be able accommodate you.

Secco Wine Bar
2933 W. Cary St.
Richmond, VA 23221
(804) 353-0670

Holiday Beer Dinner At Acacia MidtownTomorrow

Acacia Midtown running their Holiday Beer Dinner tomorrow Wednesday December 19th from 5:30 – 9pm.  Just as with past dinners, the special menu will be available throughout the night.

MENU

1st Course
Classic Caesar Salad, Rosemary Croutons, White Anchovy OR Creamy Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwich
O’Connor Norfolk Canyon Pale Ale

2nd Course
Roast Pork Shoulder, Sunchoke Farroto, Caramelized Onion Jus OR Cast Iron Fried Chicken, Macaroni and Cheese Gratin, Surry Sausage Gravy
Devils Backbone Kilt Flasher Scottish Ale

3rd Course (Optional)
Assorted Holiday Cookies and Cakes
Goose Island Bourbon County & Hardywood Gingerbread Stout

Cost for the dinner is $25/person excluding tax and gratuity; the third course is available for an additional $10 fee.  Kids’ portions will be available without beer at a discounted price.  Reservations are recommended. Call (804) 562-0138 to RSVP.

Acacia
2601 W Cary St
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 562-0138

Plan Your Attack For Fat Dragon’s 12 Beers Of Christmas Dinner Tonight

Tonight , December 12, 2012, Fat Dragon will be a great place to be tonight as they host their 12 Beers of Christmas dinner.  The special dinner menu will be available all night from 4:30 – 10pm. The cost for the dinner is $37.50/person and includes an empty Fat Dragon growler.  Take a look at the menu below and plan your attack.

Fat Dragon 12 XMas beer dinner1

Fat Dragon
1200 N Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23230
(804) 354-9888

Get In On Secco’s Last Beer Brunch of 2012

Secco Wine Bar’s last beer brunch of the year is this morning, Sunday December 2nd starting at 11am.  Go out and get some.

Credit: Secco Wine Bar

Credit: Secco Wine Bar

DECEMBER BEER BRUNCH MENU
available 11AM – 3PM

House-made biscuits and sausage gravy

Brioche with house-made preserves and whipped vanilla butter

Buttermilk pancakes with roasted apple and walnuts, house-made bacon and hash browns

Huevos rancheros with cilantro crema (option to add braised pork shoulder)

Smoked paprika sausage, vinegar braised collard greens, potatoes and soft egg

Hash browns “all the way” (sauteed onions, Sharp cheddar cheese, diced ham, tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms and chili)

Mike’s everything bagel, smoked salmon spread, shaved radish, field greens

Tortilla Espanola with potato, onion, rosemary and smoked paprika

Grilled lamb burger, crumbled blue cheese and date relish with fries

Field green salad, chevre, pistachios, lemon-thyme vinaigrette

Featured Beers

BFM Square Root 225 Saison

Stiegl Grapefruit Radler

This is a non-ticketed event and all items are served a la carte. Seating will be done on a first come, first served basis. Email info@seccowinebar.com or call (804) 353-0670 to get reservations for parties of five to eight.  Keep in mind that Secco’s size means the smaller your party, the quicker they will be able accommodate you.

Secco Wine Bar
2933 W. Cary St.
Richmond, VA 23221
(804) 353-0670

RVA-B-Que, Crab Freakout, and Pop-Up Dinner This Sunday

There’s no shortage of awesome food and beer events happening this Sunday August 12th.  The trick will be figuring out how to do them all.

RVA-B-Que — 17th St Farmer’s Market — noon – 6pm

Feed your local beer and barbecue addiction.

Legend Brewing                      Starr Hill                                  Devils Backbone
Brown Ale                                 Starr Pils                                   Vienna Lager
Oak Aged Dopplebock                Northern Lights IPA                    Azrael Belgian Golden
Oktobefest                                Belgian Dark Strong                   Ale of Fergus

Midnight Brewery                    Hardywood                              Brass Cannon
Rockville Red                             Singel                                       Hazelnut Coffee Brown
Watermelon Lime Kolsch            Belgian Double IPA                    Caliber Red                                                                                            Virginia Blackberry

Wolf Hills Brewing                   Bold Rock                                Bull and Bones
English Dark Mild                       Virginia Apple Cider                   Maroon Effect Brown
Nelson Sauvin Belgian Pale                                                        Lunch Pale Ale

Big Daddy Brewery                  Mad Fox Brewing                    James River
Black IPA                                  Molotov Hoptail Double IPA         Rock Island Red
Sunshine Belgian Wit                 Kolsch                                      River Runner Bitter

O’Connor Brewing
El Guapo IPA
Red Nun Red Ale

All this local beer plus barbecue from over twelve of the best in RIchmond including the llikes of Halligans, Buzz and Ned’s, Alamo BBQ, and Ronnie’s.

Crab Freakout! — Pasture — 4pm until

Head over to Pasture for $2.50 crabs and $8 half pounds of steamed shrimp and Rappahanock oysters.  The featured beers for the evening are both from Flying Dog: Gose (made with Old Bay) and Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout(Rappahanock oysters).  Rappahanock oysters are my new obession so I will definitely be checking this out. It’s just a question of when. 

‘And For The Last Course…..’ Pop-Up — Avalon — 5:30 – 9 (reservations recommended)

Richmond.com has the story on Chef Ethan “Knox” Vaughn’s last supper in Richmond.  You just might want to check it out.  I think I went to Avalon once for drinks but pretty sure I’ve never eaten there. Probably a shame if the brussel sprouts were as good as everyone claims. 

Meet Hardywood On The Rox

It seems like the brewers at Hardywood are on a post-Savor victory lap around the Greater Richmond area.   First stop was Benny’s Tavern in Colonial Heights.

Join them at their next stop on Tuesday June 19th from 6 – 8pm at On the Rox in Historic Shockoe Bottom. Beers on hand for the night will be Singel, Hoplar, Bourbon Cru and a special cask conditioned pin of Hoplar. Prizes will be raffled off to benefit a local charities, Massey Cancer Center and Area 10 Global. Happy Hour specials run from 3 – 7pm including 1/2 off draft beer.  So head on out and maybe you can ask them what type of beer will get these 2500 lbs of strawberries.

On the Rox
119 N. 18th St
Richmond, VA

Hardywood Goes Colonial at Benny’s Tavern

Hardywood is expanding their reach by heading south today June 13th for a Meet & Greet in Colonial Heights.  Head out to Benny’s Tavern  from 5 – 8pm to meet the brewers where they will be pouring a cask conditioned pin of “Nick Palmer” — a blend of Singel and Hoplar with spices.

Benny’s Tavern
3631 Boulevard
Colonial Heights, VA 23834
(804) 526-2536

Gingko’s Kimchi Tasting Dinner This Sunday

I will be in Washington, DC the rest of the week enjoying as many of the events I can manage leading up to Savor.  My first stop when I return to Richmond on Sunday June 10th will be Ginkgo’s Kimchi Tasting Dinner at Kitchen Thyme.  Cassie Keene has lined up  some of Richmond’s favorite local chefs to prepare a menu using 5 different types of kimchi.

Menu

Chef Tim Bereika
Secco Wine Bar
Smoked duck, cumin yogurt, shaved radish with cucumber kimchi gazpacho

Chef John Maher
spoon.
Charred calamari, roasted potato, black olive puree with napa cabbage kimchi

Chef Aaron Hoskins
2113
Braised beef brisket, fried green onions, smoked fish sauce emulsion with shaved daikon radish kimchi

Chef Ryan Evans
Mint
Glazed pork belly with watermelon rind kimchi

Chef Randall Doetzer
Juleps
Grilled sardines, smoked pickled ramp with ramp kimchi

Dessert

Chef Collin Wagner
Kimchi macaron

Chef Tim Bereika
Donut with kimchi-chocolate pasty cream

In addition to this intriguing menu, there will be a sampling of Hardywood Park Craft Brewery beers among others. I also hear that Chef Johnny is working on a mango hefeweizen sorbet.

Tickets can be purchased for $50 cash at Kitchen Thyme or The Empress.  For more information, head over to the Facebook event page here.

The Empress
2043 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 592-4000

Kitchen Thyme
7801-25 W Broad St
In the Steinmart Shopping Center
Richmond, VA 23294
(804) 396-2665

Turning Restaurant Week into Beer Dinner Week

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that this week is the spring edition of Richmond Restaurant Week benefiting Feedmore.  Restaurant Week is the perfect format for testing out your beer pairing skills.  Of course, this works best at places with beer on draft.  Group participation would be required if using bottles.

Note: No restaurants have agreed to the pricing laid out below.  It’s just my wild imaginings.

Draft scenario

Pretty straight forward. Let’s say the restaurant’s highest draft beer is $6. You could request three four ounce pours of different beers with each course and agree to pay $7.

Let’s take Six Burner’s Menu for instance. Here’s what I would try to do. The beers I chose are only from the memory of my last visit there.

Course 1

P.E.I. Mussels, gruyere cheese caramelized onion beer broth with Hardywood Singel

Course 2

Skirt Steak and Frites, spicy cilantro tomatillo avocado salsa with Legend Brown Ale

Course 3

Chocolate Brownie, hazelnut gelato with Heavy Seas Black Canon

Bottle Scenario

With bottles, you will want at least two people to split 12 ounce bottles into 6 ounce pours.  Of course, this is the more costly method as you have to pair for each bottle.

Here are the places doing restaurant week that I know either have beer on tap or in bottles.

Six Burner

Bistro 27

Secco Wine Bar

Tastebuds American Bistro

Tarrant’s Cafe

Tobacco Company

Acacia Mid-Town (bottles only)

Once again, none of the places above have agreed to anything but I hope they think it sounds like fun if asked.

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