Dayton Dining

Join The Society for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals (SICSA) for Brunch at Brio on Sun, March 7th from 11am – 2pm at the annual Bow Meow.  Brio will be serving up delicious golden brown stuffed French toast, housemade fluffy mini pancakes with fresh fruits, eggs and grilled breakfast meats. A sampling of different flavored housemade creme brulees, muffins and mini desserts. Brio Chef’s selections of housemade bruschettas, grogonzola lanb chops and Chicken Chipotle Panini. Served up  fresh juices, sodas, coffee, tea and a cash bar.

Tickets are $25 each or or 2 for $40 and can be picked up at Brio or SICSA or your can RSVP to Debbie at 937-294-6505 extension 12

Day of Caring is an ongoing effort to feed the hungry and homeless in our community. Their main fundraising event is an annual Pancake Brunch. The Pancake Brunch, held on the last Sunday in each February, is in fact many brunches held at various locations around the tri-state area.

Established in 1991 by Janaki Venkayya, Day of Caring is a grass roots organization made up of volunteers committed to increasing personal awareness and involvement toward confronting the ever-increasing national plight of hunger and homelessness.

From the first pancake brunch with 12 locations, to the 34 sites participating this year, Day of Caring is continually growing. As in the past, churches, community organizations, and public foundations host, prepare, and serve the annual pancake brunch. The hope this year is to raise $30,000 for local emergency hunger and housing coalitions. Many new sites have been added. In addition to Montgomery County and the City of Dayton, Greene, Preble and Clark counties are also involved. Sites in Cincinnati and Richmond, Ind., are also participating with money from ticket sales going back to the county in which they were raised.

Venkayya said the “Day of Caring” committee is now focused on increasing volunteers, especially younger people. More than 1,000 volunteers help out. During the past 13 years, the project has received about $1 million of in-kind donations — from paper napkins and coffee to orange juice and plastic utensils.

In philosophy, Day of Caring is similar to Thanksgiving, where one day a year we come together as a nation to give thanks for our good fortune. Likewise, Day of Caring, through its ever increasing number of volunteers, sets aside one day – the last Sunday in February – where we, the community, can come together to help our less fortunate neighbors.

A variety of churches and service organizations host a Pancake Brunch and all proceeds from these Brunches benefit the local community’s Hunger and Housing Coalitions. Cost of the brunch is $6 for an adult, $4 for seniors and children. we

At the House of Bread, thanks to Merrill Lynch, a free breakfast will be served. A complete list of brunch sites and the times they will operate can be found at the Day of Caring web site. For more information, call (937) 320-1687.

Financial support comes from various businesses and individuals through either underwriting of a Brunch site’s expenses or in-kind donations.

2010 Underwriters

A Soup Supper to benefit the Dayton International Peace Museum and Dayton FoodBank will be held on Sat, Feb 27th starting at 7pm, hosted by Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Guests will take home a beautiful handmade pottery bowl after enjoying soups (including vegetarian options. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children, with advance purchase reequired.

Delicious Soups donated by:

* Cafe Monet
* C’est Tout Bistro
* Coco’s Bistro
* Flavors Restaurant
* The Meadowlark Restaurant
* One Lincoln Park
* Savona Ristorante
* Thai 9
* Boosalis Baking Company
* Rahn’s Artisan Breads
* Reeve’s Catering
* Sisters’ Catering
* Boston Stoker

For Tickets call: 937-227-3223 or 937-436-3628
Email: [email protected]
or [email protected]

Information at websites:
www.DaytonPeaceMuseum.org
www.MVUUF.org

It so seems like the name of a special you’d see on the Food Network, doesn’t it? While it certainly could be, it’s also something you can attend right here in Dayton!  The exquisite five course dinner, with each course prepared by one of the Miami Valley’s most celebrated chefs and  complemented with sommelier-selected wines, will happen Sat, March 13th in the historic Dayton Masonic Center.  Just recently opened to the general public, the two story grand dining room is itself an architectural masterpiece.  The chefs for the evening will be:

♦ Chef Keith Taylor of Savona
♦ Chef Dominique Fortin of C’est Tout
♦ Chef David Glynn of the Wright-Patterson Club
♦ Chef Anne Kearney of Rue Dumaine
♦ Chef Jared Whalen of L’Auberge

The inspiration for The Masterpiece Ball is due in large measure to Chef Dieter Krug, who passed away this past fall.
Dieter, who left Germany in 1953, worked in hotels in Rome and Madrid before moving to the U.S. in 1956. Chef Krug worked for the Comisar family at The Maisonette in Cincinnati and the King Cole in Dayton before co-founding L’Aubere.  A mentor to many working chef’s today, his guidance during the creation of this event is being honored with  the menu for the ball.

Following dinner, guests can dance to the incomparable Marygolds show band, play a hand of blackjack in The Balcony Casino, or head to Après, our “cigars under the stars” venue featuring an extensive selection of single malt scotches, liqueurs and fine cigars.

Dayton Operan Guild Event Co-Chair, Katie Mitakides was so enthusiastic in explaining, “this isn’t some stuffy old ball -it’s an amazing party with spectacular food and lots of fun. We’ve even got a special price for first time attenedee’s and those under 40.”  Patron tickets start at $175/person and the discount for newbies is indeed significant- $50/person.  Click or more info or to reserve tickets.

Proceeds from the event help fund high school and college vocal competitions sponsored by the Guild.

A series of preview Happy Hour parties have been planned to show off the menu inspirations called Tempting Tastes. Tease your appetite by sampling the fabulous food prepared by our esteemed chefs at preview parties.

Join us at one or all of the remaining tastes from 5 to 7 p.m.

*Rue Domaine, Thursday, February 11

*L’Auberge, Tuesday, February 23

*C’est Tout, Monday, March 1

Cost is $15 per person in advance or $20 at the door. A cash bar is available.

Click here to make a reservation online. You can also contact Kimberly Robinson for more information or to make a reservation at [email protected] or on 937/294-6742.

Did you resolve to be “greener” this year?  Join Green Drinks to cocktail, meet and network with like-minded individuals who share your interest in building a sustainable society and planet. On Wed, Jan 27th from 6-8pm Green Drinks will take over the lounge area at Franco’s Ristorante Italiano at 824 E. Fifth Street.

January’s Green Drinks is generously sponsored by Energy Optimizers USA and Wat-Kem Mechancial. FREE APPETIZERS!  CASH BAR.

Dayton Green Drinks is a casual social event where emerging and established community leaders network and link ideas to create a concentrated effort of positive change for our region.

They have a lively mixture of people from academia, agriculture, government, non-profits and business. Come along and you’ll be made welcome. Just say, “are you green?” and they’ll look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It’s a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there is always a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organizing network.
Attendess have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. It’s a force for the good and we’d like to help it spread so bring a friend along!

According to Wikipedia  Green Drinks is an informal networking event where environmentally minded people meet over drinks. Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott and friends, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 223 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon. As of May 2009, there are over 525 Green Drink Chapters worldwide.  As of 15 February 2007, Melbourne, Australia holds the record for the world’s biggest Green Drinks. Over 1700 people attended an event held on the first evening of the city’s 2008 Sustainable Living Festival.

For some folks the rush to register for classes is just like being back in college, plotting out your schedule, hoping you’ll get in to the class you want before it sells out!  Pretty amazing that a grocery store’s cooking classes can evoke that can of excitement, but Dorothy Lane Market’s School of Cooking is indeed a unique place.  Offering over 60 classes for the winter/spring session,  including hands on classes with an average class size of 12 and demonstration classes for up to 30 at at time, DLM’s classses sell out more often than not. The classes range from basic knife skills to couple’s classes that pair food and wine.

According to Sandy Martz, the Director of the Cooking School, students bond with certain instructors and will over time take all the classes he/she offers.  Sandy works diligently at recruiting Chefs, cookbook authors and Foodies from all over the country to continuously offer different courses throughout the year.  In the summer, the focus is on children’s cooking camps.

DLM Corporate Chef Carrie Walters holds the distinction for the class that sells out the quickest and that’s the Girls’s Night Out.  So this term- they are offering two, one in Feb and one in May, but you better sign up quickly if you want to experience the fun!

Bon Appetit (imagine this being said in your best Julia Child impression)!