Who is the Foodie? It doesn’t really matter. Bacon is god. Wine cures anything. If you believe those two facts, then we’re going to get on fine. This means you have discovered the power of food to make life better. This knowledge is imperative to the art of living well.Beer vs. Wine Dinner.
It was bound to happen, with all the hype around beer being just as good a pairing with food these days. Tokara host a beer vs. wine dinner this Tuesday night, using the best of wine from Tokara and craft beer from Brewers & Union. Naturally chef Richard Carstens has spent the last few weeks thinking up the perfect four-course menu as a platform for this standoff.
Now if you think this is going to just be a seriously indulgent night with way too much booze, you’re wrong. It’s going to be a seriously indulgent night with way too much amazing food and booze. Guests will be elegantly stuffing their faces and taking generous sips of beer, then repeating the process but with wine. Then long discussions will follow about the merits of each. Possibly. Perhaps more likely is that guests will just sit back and submit to a flavour festival like no other. Either way, it’s going to be awesome fun.
Tickets are R450 per person, which for a double-pairing and four-course meal by one of South Africa’s top chefs is pretty damned good, if you ask me. Since I have a deep love for beer, wine and anything edible, I’ll be there, trying to maintain some sort of decent decorum amongst the feeding frenzy. Or is that maintaining a feeding frenzy amongst the decent decorum? Let’s see what happens…
She said wine, he said beer! Tokara Restaurant, 6 September 2011. Bookings +27 (0) 21 885 2550 or email reservations@tokara.com. More info here.
