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“Fish Heads, Eel Bones and Beer at EN, Chocolate for a Cause, Organic Wine Dinner at Tangled”

Fish Heads, Eel Bones and Beer at EN!  

In a Japanese restaurant kitchen nothing gets wasted. Cooks make magic even with humble ingredients like fish heads, bones, vegetable peels, and scraps of rich wagyu beef, turning them into delicious, irresistible dishes. But not dishes for the us, the customers—this is meal for the cooks themselves. These wondrous restaurant-family meals, called makanai, have inspired EN’s Chef Hiroki Abe to cook a lustrous tasting menu of tasty treats rarely found on a Japanese restaurant menu.

Join EN Brasserie this Saturday (and every first of the every month) at 10 pm, to enjoy Chef Abe’s creations the way his team does at the end of a busy shift—relaxed, with beer in hand (in your case, all you can drink Sapporo, at $45 per person). To reserve, call 212.647.9196.

EN is located at 435 Hudson Street (at Leroy).

2 Chicks With Chocolate and The Chocolate Library Host Chocolate Tasting to Benefit LGBT Community Center
 
2 Chicks with Chocolate and The Chocolate Library are hosting a free tasting on Saturday, March 5th from 12pm-6pm at the Chocolate Library (111 St. Marks Place). You’ll be able to meet 2 Chicks chocolatier Stephanie Vazquez, a gifted Chocolatier and Pastry Chef who was trained under renowned Master Chocolatier Patrick Coston, and indulge in your love of chocolate, while making a positive contribution to the LGBT community. Stephanie Vazquez and 2 Chicks with Chocolate will be donating 10% of all sales proceeds to the LGBT Community Center.
 
Fire and Ice Hot Cocoa and a selection of chocolates will be served, while Dark Chocolate Passion Fruit, Caramel Dark Chocolate, Spice White Chocolate, Strawberry Dark Chocolate, Raspberry Milk Chocolate, Cinnamon Caramel Milk Chocolate and the Berry & Spice Collection will all be available for purchase.
 
2 Chicks with Chocolate is an award-winning New Jersey-based mother/daughter owned chocolate company most recently named as one of the Top 10 Chocolatiers in America by Dessert Professional magazine. The Chocolate Library is located at 111 St. Marks Place, between First Avenue and Avenue A.  

An Organic Wine Dinner at Tangled
To celebrate its first anniversary, The Tangled Vine Wine Bar & Kitchen (434 Amsterdam Avenue, 646-863-3905) is throwing a series of fun events all month long. This Sunday at 7:30 they will host the Natural Winemakers’ Week Taste of the Mediterranean wine dinner with Flos de Pinoso and Domaine de la Patience, two organic wine producers from France and Spain presenting a selection of white and red wines that will be complemented by Tangled Vine Chef David Seigal’s Mediterranean feast.
 
One of the pioneers of organic winemaking in the region of Valencia, Flos de Pinoso has been making wines the natural way since 1997. Presented wines will showcase indigenous grapes such as Macabeo, Airén and Monastrell. On the other side of the border, in Costières de Nîmes in the South of France, Domaine de la Patience takes its name from a wild local herb that grows in the vineyard. The winery is headed by winemaker Christophe Aguilar who, having taken over his family’s winery in the 1990s, has in recent years moved to organic farming. Christophe will be in attendance at the event.
 
Bridging southern France and Spain, chef David Seigal, who worked in Barcelona, will offer a succession of dishes such as pissaladiere, a pizza-like pie from the South of France, mussels Provencal, selection of tapas: patatas bravas, Spanish olives, charcuterie, gambas al ajillo garlic shrimp, chorizo a la plancha, and the piece de resistance – a large paella. The food and wine will flow over the course of the festive and casual but fun evening, and you’ll be able to meet and speak with the wine producers.

Seats are $49 per person, unlimited food & wine. Reservations at 646-863-3896 or vica@tangledvinebar.com.
 
Happy Weekend!

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