St. Pete’s Brick Street Farms, which specializes in hydroponically-grown lettuces and greens. Credit: c/o Brick Street Farms

The only thing better than eating a delicious dinner is indulging for a great cause—and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (stylized as “ACS CAN”) can help you do exactly that this month.

On Thursday, Aug. 31 at 6:30 p.m., St. Pete’s Brick Street Farms (199 20th St. S) hosts a four course, Mexican-Italian charity dinner benefitting the organization’s mission of “promoting access to cancer prevention and early detection, treatment and follow-up care through nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy.”

In addition to dinner, this fundraising event includes live music, curated beverage pairings and a “luminary display to honor every life touched by cancer.”

Tickets to Brick Street Farms’ American Cancer Society fundraiser dinner on Thursday, Aug. 31 run are $45.

The culinary mind behind the dinner itself is Bandit Coffee’s kitchen lead Chef Adrianna Siller. Not only did she dominate Feeding Tampa Bay’s annual Epic Chef competition this year, but also won an episode of the popular Food Network show “Chopped” in 2022 (season 51 episode 12 for anyone interested in watching.)

Chef Siller tells Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that her four dishes for this month’s dinner include a corn and poblano focaccia and veggie crudo to start, and short rib chochoyotes—which she describes as a “masa version of gnocchi”—for the main course. The decadent meal will finish with a dulce de leche tiramisu, rounding out the dinner’s unique Mexican-Italian theme.

This month’s event—which is also kid-friendly—is organized by St. Pete resident and ACS CAN Vice-State Lead Ambassador for Florida, Hyacinth Burrowes.

If you can’t attend this charitable dinner in St. Pete, you can always donate directly to the ACS CAN using the same ticket link. Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.