Your Chowder hounds have sniffed down the best culinary events in town. Check back every Friday for your weekly prix-fixe of foodie festivals, cooking classes, wine tastings, and more.
Salem Harvest Fest
Oct. 18, Session 1: 2-4:30 p.m.; Session 2: 5:30-8 p.m.
The Gathering, 217 Essex St., Salem, MA
When it comes to libations, we don’t discriminate. At the Salem Harvest Fest, sponsored by Pamplemousse and Magic Hat, we’ll be sipping on European and American artisanal brews, wines from South Africa, France, Italy, Spain, and New Zealand, and mead from the UK and Denmark. Beer before wine? Don’t worry, you’ll be fine.
Bowen’s Wharf Seafood Festival
Oct. 18-19, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Bowen’s Wharf, Newport, RI
Sit back and have your own shellfish shindig with lobster dinners, clam chowder, stuffed quahogs, clam cakes, shrimp, scallops, and raw oysters—all while listening to live music and entertainment.
Wellfleet OysterFest
Oct. 18-19, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Main Street, Wellfleet
The two-day outdoor celebration of the incredible, edible mollusk features a shuck-off, shellfishing exhibitions and tours—and barrel upon barrel of sweet Wellfleet oysters and clams, plucked fresh from the beds for your street eating pleasure. Continue reading “What’s the Dish?” »
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As everyone around me knows, I’ll soon be leaving my current digs in JP and moving across the city. And it’s starting to stress me out a little—not just the idea of packing and hauling all my stuff, but the fact that I still have a lot of eating to do before I go.
Free Tapas at Masa
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