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Event ID #405368

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Tags:   Food   Wine   Sit Down Dinner   Entertainment  

Join us as we celebrate our annual Mardi Gras-style Carnevale wine dinner on “Fat Tuesday”, February 21, 6:30PM.  Enjoy a 5-course festive Italian feast from Chef Davido with matching wines courtesy of special guest David Servello of David Vincent Selections.  Come in costume if you wish, enjoy live entertainment, and indulge yourself as the Italians have for centuries. $90.00pp.  The restaurant will close its dining room for the event to accommodate the large crowd. 

Carnevale (Mardi Gras in the US) is a festival which traces its roots back to the Roman Saturnalia, a festival to honor the god Saturn with feasting, gift giving and role reversal.  Catholics found a way to work the festival into their own liturgical year.  One commonly accepted derivation of the word "carnival" is the Latin "carne vale" or "farewell to meat." Carnevale was the final hurrah as winter headed towards spring, and the long Lenten season of fasting and abstinence, which begins the next day on Ash Wednesday.

While Carnevale has a rich history and ancient roots in Italy, the festival remains a vital and contemporary celebration. One of the common elements found throughout the tradition has remained the Carnevale masks and contemporary costumes.  Guests traditionally come to the Paesano’s event in full costume.