 | LaBORatory Night at The Food Gang
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| Date: | Sep 15, 2008 (Mon) | | Time: | 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM | | Cost: | $30 per person, plus tax and gratuity | | | | | | Place: | The Food Gang
9472 Harding Ave
Surfside, FL 33154
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September 15 LaBORatory Night at The Food Gang
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"It's not a gang, it's a club!"
-Cheech & Chong
Greetings Fellow Wine Vagabonds!
Well, which is it, a gang or a club? It's even more confusing than usual this month, as our LaBORatory Night club meets up with The Gang... The Food Gang, that is. Thanks to our good friend and longtime Lab Night victim, Nuccio Nobel, for suggesting the venue.
Food Gang proprietor, Patrick Charpentier, who relocated to South Florida from Paris, has agreed to host our intrepid crew of wine drinkers at his year and a half old restaurant/tapas bar/market. Patrick has created a casual chic, modern and unpretentious haven for foodies along Surfside's Harding Avenue(yes, you heard me... We're having a Lab Night in Surfside!)
And since the evening will have a definite French flair, it seems appropriate that we'll have a special guest with us, Mr. Colin Sherrifs, Export Manager for Chateau de l'Orangerie, in Bordeaux, who will be in town to introduce the brand new "To the Glory of the Cat" wines, whose labels feature comic character "Le Chat," created by artist Philippe Geluck.
Although little known in the US, the "Au Gloire du Chat" comics are hugely popular in France and Belgium and Mr. Sheriffs will tell us all about this beloved character.
With a bit of luck, he may even give us a taste of these enjoyable new Bordeaux wines!
The FoodGang Restaurant
LaBORatory Night Dinner September 15th 2008
AMUSE BOUCHE
APPETIZERS
Beef Goulash Soup
Or
Fried Calamari Tossed With Fresh Herbs, Lemon Pepperoncini Aioli
Or
Day Boat Scallop Served In A Pastry Shell, Light White Wine And Cream Sauce
INTERMEZZO
Chilled Home Made Limoncello
ENTREES
Breast of Chicken “Tuscan” Filled With Fresh Spinach, Sun Dried Tomatoes And Mozzarella
Or
Seafood Ravioli Nantua Sauce, with Shrimp, Calamari, Scallop Tomato and Clam Juice
Or
Hanger Steak With Beurre Maitre D’Hotel, Sage, Gratin Dauphinois
DESSERTS
Dark Chocolate Mousse, Home Made Chantilly
Or
Home MadeLavender Crème Caramel
Or
Crepe Purse, Cognac Flambé Banana, Godiva Chocolate Sauce
Of course, we'll also be bringing our own "bagged" wines and, as usual, other than the customary white zinfandel prohibition, the LaBORatory Night Governing Committee is imposing no limitations on the type of wines that you can bring for the evening's festivities.
We hope that you'll join us at The Food Gang and partake in our good food, plenteous wine and festive camaraderie.
Here are the logistics:
7:30pm
Monday, September 15, 2008
9472 Harding Avenue
Surfside
Tel: (786) 228-9292 (Please do not call The Food Gang to RSVP)
Parking: Plenty of metered street parking and a metered lot nearby.
$30 per person price-fixe, includes your meal, soft drink, coffee or tea. Tax and tip are additional! The Food Gang has graciously agreed to waive its usual corkage fee for Lab Night guests.
RSVP's are a must. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND DIRECTLY TO The Food Gang! Email affirmative responses only to GrapeWiz@aol.com by Friday, September 12, and let me know how many will be in your party. Please also include a phone number in your email.
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LaBORatory Night (so called for its experimental spirit and pronounced La-BOHR-atory... think Boris Karloff in the old Frankenstein movies) is an ongoing tradition of more than seventeen years, born at the now defunct but never forgotten Biscayne Wine Merchants Bistro in North Miami. Our ragtag crewof wine drinkers continues to meet about oncea month, always on a Monday night,asan alternative to watching Monday Night Football.
Our now itinerant gathering is held at a continually evolving roster of dining establishments straddling Dade & Broward counties. Every person or couple brings a bottle of wine, masked by a paper bag or other wrapper, which they think would be interesting to share with the group during dinner. Unless you thrive on verbal abuse, no white zinfandel, please.
Depending on the group's size and earnestness, sometimes we have a serious discussion and analysis of the wines. More often than not, we just drink them.
Our original ground rules remain - three topics are verboten for discussion on Monday LaBORatory nights - sports, religion and politics. If you feel compelled to raise any of these topics, please come back on Tuesday. All other subjects are fair game.
Guests, spouses and designated drivers are welcome and encouraged. It's about as much fun as you can legally have on a Monday night.
Feel free to forward this email to your friends so that the circle of LaBORatory Night victims, errr, participants, continues to expand.
If this announcement has been forwarded to you by a friend, and you would like to be notified directly for future LaBORatory Night gatherings, or if you would like tobe removed from this list, please email grapewiz@aol.com
Your support of LaBORatory Night is always greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Alan Kratish
LaBORatory Night
Jan Boxer-Sitko
LaBORatory Night
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