FOOD
Beer, Beer, Beer Dinner Kelly'sFor Just About anything, 319 Main St., in downtown Dunedin, serves up a dinner of beer, beer and more beer. Oh, and some food too. You'll savor four courses of delicious appetizers, salad, entrees and dessert all paired with microbrews. Start with coconut shrimp with spicy banana dipping sauce, choose from entrees, such as grouper with a salsa verde stuffing served on a pineapple orange pasilla sauce; pan-seared duck breast with a bourbon dried cherry sauce or pepper-rubbed beef tenderloin tip, slow roasted with tomatoes, fennel and chard, served over parmesan and basil linguine. For dessert — a killer flavor combination — then end with roast hazelnut cake, chocolate fudge icing and Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, served with Sierra Nevada porter. $30. July 27-28 during dinner hours. Reservations strongly recommended. 727-736-5284.
Bernini and Banfi Bernini hosts a special gentlemen's evening featuring Banfi wines, Bacardi liquors and fine cigars. Experience the exceptional wines of Tuscany combined with Bernini's fine food. A cigar smoker will be held during the dinner. $55 a person, plus tax and tip. Aperitifs served at 7 p.m.; dining at 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 30. Reservations are limited. 1702 E. Seventh Ave., Ybor City, Tampa. 813-248-0099.
Benefit For Brookwood Join Friends of Brookwood Florida, which provides quality services to abused and neglected girls, for an evening of elegance at its Second Annual Wine Tasting, featuring a selection of dinner and dessert wines paired with gourmet foods. $60 a person. 7-9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 29, at Eckerd College's Lewis House, in St. Petersburg. Reservations are limited. Call 727-822-4789.
Chef Eric Webber Goes Asian Chef Webber demonstrates his versatility with a world of flavors as he demonstrates the preparation of Asian-inspired dishes like miso salmon barbecue, The Vocano, with layers of spicy tuna, wasabi and caviar, coconut-fired mango with Key lime custard sauce and more. $35. 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2. La Maison Gourmet, 471 Main St., Dunedin. 727-736-6400.
WINE
The Service of Wine This class should be mandatory! Learn everything from how to store and keep wine, to how to order and serve wine. $20. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, July 27. Wines By Morrell Florida, 2009 N. 22nd St., Ybor City. 813-241-8587.
Good, Cheap Wines Grand Cru Wine Cellar revisits one of the store's most popular tastings that explores the theme, It doesn't have to be expensive to be good. Admission is $12 and includes a tasting of at least six wines accompanied by tasty noshing and a coupon worth $5 off any purchase. 6-9 p.m. Friday, July 27, at Grand Cru Wine Cellar, 11724 N. Dale Mabry, inside the Main Street Shopping Center, Tampa. 813-269-VINE.
Call for California Cabernets Bern's Summer Wine Series shows off the great vintages of this great grape. $25. 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 30. SideBern's, 2208 Morrison Ave., Tampa. Reservations requested. 813-250-9463.
California Wine Bargains From Cabs to Zins, taste some of California's great wine values. $20. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3. Wines By Morrell Florida, 2009 N. 22nd St., Tampa. 813-241-8587.
Bern-ing To Learn Bern's wine experts take at look at comparative tastings of California Cabernets and France's red Bordeaux, and ask, Do they really make sense? $25. 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, SideBern's, 2208 Morrison Ave., Tampa. Reservations requested. 813-250-9463.
The Grape Escape Partake in a free tasting from a selection of fine wines from around the world with Jack Kocak, The Wine Professor, every Friday 4-7:30 p.m. at The Grapevine at Westchase, 12125 W. Linebaugh Ave., Tampa. 813-818-9463.
This article appears in Jul 26 – Aug 1, 2001.