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October Food Events

October Food Events
  • Tacoma’s 52nd Annual Greek Festival
    October 4-6. Authentic Greek Cuisine, dance, music and more. Free admission. S. Yakima and 15th Street, Tacoma. Fore more information, visit them online.
  • Harmon Brewery & Restaurant 16th Annual Brewmaster’s Dinner
    October 3, 6 p.m. 5 course meal paired with 5 Harmon ales for only $35. Please call 253-383-2739 for reservations.
  • Harvest Fest
    October 5, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Fall fun and good food for all at Tahoma Farms, 21108 Orville Rd E, Orting. Chow down on locally sourced, Southern-inspired fare with a modern twist from the food truck Seattle Biscuit Company. Savor fall ice cream flavors from Ice Cream Social and snack on organic kettle corn and corn dogs from the Organic Kettle Corn Company. See where your food is grown and meet the farmers who harvest it in person! Peruse our farm stand and buy fresh produce from the very farm where it was grown. Plus, browse our market area and purchase items from artisan vendors like OlyKraut . $15 per carload (includes a pumpkin!). Pay at the gate or online.
  • Puyallup Art and Wine Walk
    October 5, 2 p.m.-6 p.m. Enjoy wine & food pairings, along with live music and an art show. Tickets are $25/advance or $30 the day of the event. Purchase tickets online.
  • Tacoma Chocolate Festival
    October 4-5. Cupcake Clash Bake-Off, chocolate cocktail hour, chocolatier demonstrations and more in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Tickets are $5. For ticket locations, see the Proctor Neighborhood Facebook.
  • Toscanos Fall Wine Dinner
    October 9, 6:30 p.m.     Toscanos first Wine Maker’s Dinner of the fall will be hosted by Charles Cline, Owner of Cline Cellars & Jacuzzi Family Vineyards. Mr. Cline will be showcasing some unique wines from both wineries. A four-course dinner will be prepared by Toscanos Chef, Tom Pantley. Each course is designed to highlight these wonderful wines. The cost of the Wine Maker’s dinner is $70 per person, tax & gratuity included. No-host cocktails are at 6:30pm, followed by the dinner at 7pm. For reservations, call (253) 864-8600.
  • Tacoma Farmers Market 2013 Banquet of Bounty, A Farm to Fork Fundraising Celebration
    October 11, 6:30. The Tacoma Farmers Market Board presents “Banquet of Bounty”, an annual fundraising dinner that connects our community to our farms. Dinner will be prepared by Chef Matt Stickle at the Hotel Murano, and will feature the bounty from local farmers and producers. The special guest speaker Molly Wizenberg, award-winning food blogger (‘Orangette’) and author of New York Times bestseller ‘A Homemade Life’. $75/person. Tickets are available online.
  • Primo Grill Cooking Classes
    October 12th, The Cuisine of Tuscany. $65 inclusive of recipes, instruction, lunch, a glass of wine, tax and gratuity. Call 253-383-7000 to reserve.
    October 19th, The Cuisine of Spain. $65 inclusive of recipes, instruction, lunch, a glass of wine, tax and gratuity. Call 253-383-7000 to reserve.
  • Bayview School of Cooking Classes
    Various days and times. See their class schedule for more information.
  • Tacoma Food Co-Op Party
    October 16, 6-9 p.m. At Bluebeard Coffee and Cork! A Wine Bar, located next to each other on 6th & State. All are welcome to attend! There will be live music by Billy Pratt, fabulous food, and drinks, and member-owners will have their last chance to vote for the new TFC board members. Free to attend.
  • Dishcrawl
    October 16. 6th Avenue Tacoma Dishcrawl. Eat your way through various restaurants on 6th Ave. Restaurants are kept a secret until two days before the event, at which time the meeting location is revealed to ticket holders. Reservations are $45 a person and can be purchased at dishcrawl.com/theave.
  • Nordic Lutefisk Dinner
    October 20, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Includes, all you can eat Lutefisk, Meatballs,
    Lefse and all the trimmings. Adults $ 20.00, ages 7-12 $ 10.00 , 6 and under are free. For more information, see their Facebook page.

Washington Cider Week, Tacoma Style

Washington Cider Week, Tacoma Style
  • So…I’m a little behind this week. I meant to post this last week, so as to give you enough time to appropriate plan all of your cider activities. But there’s still time! It’s officially Washington Cider Week, September 5-15th. And the good news is, it’s actually longer than a week. Those smart cider people sure know what they’re doing. There are all kinds of fun cider-related events going on this week. If you love cider as much as I do, you’ll want to get to an event, or at least pick up one of your favorite local ciders to celebrate. I know I’ll be imbibing…in fact, I need one right now. It’s Monday, that’s reason enough.Check out all the Washington Cider Week events on their website, but here are some Tacoma-area cider activities to wet your whistle:
  • Pint Defiance Events
    Get daily cider tastes of all your local favorites, and stop by on Sunday, September 15 for a Sunday Cider Sampler from 11:30-4 p.m. to taste ciders from all over the country.
  • Events and Ciders on Tap at the Red Hot 
    Tue Sept 10th, 5 p.m.
    Whitewood Cider Co.
    Tap List:
    1. Old Fangled Heirloom Blend (100% WA grown blend of Jonathan, McIntosh, Gravenstein, & winesap. Dry & crisp w/clean citrus flavors)
    2. South Sounder (100% South Sound community grown apples, flavors of apricot & green grape, tannic bite)
    Wed Sept 11th, 5p.m.
    Schilling Cider Night
    Tap List:
    1. Schilling Original (blend of 100% Washington apples w/light dry hopping of NW whole leaf hops)
    2. Radler Session Cider (w/grapefruit & lemon)
    Thu Sept 12th, 5 p.m.
    Tieton Cider Night
    Tap List:
    *all Tieton Ciders made with blends of their own farm-grown fruits.
    1. Apricot (crisp, tartness of apricot, notes of fresh and dried apricot)
    2. Cherry (A well balanced apple cider blended with Cherry w/big mouth feel & long finish)
    3. Wild WA Apple (w/pineapple aroma & pronounced mineral quality that gives the cider a lively mouth feel. Notes of green apple & preserved lemon)
    4. Yakima Valley Dry Hop (aroma of fruit-forward nuttyness followed by a citrusy palate)
    5. Special Surprise Randallized Cider