Petaluma Road Butler, Quinua restaurant team up
Petaluma’s Road Butler and Quinua Cocina Peruana have teamed up to offer a winter special. Juan from Quinua and Mark, of the Road Butler food delivery service, are joining forces to offer 15 percent off any delivered order. This is a great way to enjoy Quinua’s incredible food, delivered straight to your door by Road Butler. Call 217-5238 to place an order.
Fall Beer Festival
The 3rd annual NorCal Beer Geeks Festival will take place on Saturday, Nov. 5 from 1:30 to 5 p.m. at the Petaluma Veterans Memorial Building. Participating breweries and cideries are a who’s who of local breweries, as well as some lesser known, yet equally tasty up-and-comers.
Pouring all their best will be Petaluma Hills Brewing Company, Lagunitas, 101 North, Cooperage, Fogbelt, St. Florian’s, HenHouse, Third Street, Lost Coast, Bear Republic, Ruth McGowan’s, Faction, Temescal, New Glory, Barrel Brothers, Anderson Valley, Out of Bounds, Hermitage, Barley Lodge Brewing, Firestone, Cider Brothers, Sonoma Cider and many more.
General admission tickets include unlimited beer tastings from more than 25 breweries and cideries, a tasting glass and an automatic entry into the main raffle. VIP tickets include all general admission perks plus entry one hour earlier, a tasting glass lanyard and two food samples. There will be live music and food will be available for purchase.
The event benefits Sonoma County Vet Connect, a nonprofit assisting veterans in locating the services they have earned during their military service.
Learn about bee keeping
Keller Estates invites those interested in bee keeping, or those who want to sample some great wine, to join them on Sunday, Nov. 13 from 1 to 2 p.m. as their friends from Planet Bee Foundation help harvest honey from Keller’s bee hives. This is the perfect opportunity to learn more about bees, whether for your own beehive project, or simply to broaden your knowledge of how important bees are to our environment.
Keller Estate supports Planet Bee Foundation in its efforts to produce the next generation of environmental stewards. Tickets are available at www.kellerestates.com for $5 per person.
Sausage Sandwich of the Month
Although their sausage special changes month to month and year to year, Yanni’s Sausages of Penngrove always offers the fan favorite “Thanksgiving in a Link” sandwich during the month of November. Nestled in a Full Circle Bakery bun, their “Thanksgiving in a Link” (turkey, celery, onions, and dried cranberries) is topped with Yanni’s fresh cranberry sauce and grilled onions.
Don’t wait until Thanksgiving week to give this one a try because Francesca and Johnny take that week off so they can spend time with their kids and grandkids. My family has been so enamored by this sandwich that we’d been joking for years about buying them in advance and bypassing the hassle of making a full-blown Thanksgiving dinner.
Well, last year our matriarch followed through and surprised the family by making them for us at home. As fellow New Yorkers, Francesca and Johnny were nice enough to invite my mom out to the shop to give her a lesson on how to make this delicious sandwich at home.
It is pretty simple, but requires strict adherence to the ingredients list, including Yanni’s sausage links, which can be purchased in bulk, and Full Circle Bread, which is made just down the block from Yanni’s, at the corner of Old Redwood Highway and Petaluma Hill Road.
Last year she surprised us, but this year the family voted unanimously to do it again.
Dempsey’s changes
Dempsey’s held a “Handover Hootenanny” on Oct. 18, where long-time customers could bid a fond farewell to founders and long-time owners Bernadette and Peter Burrell while meeting to the new owner, Robert Moxley, a Santa Rosa resident and partner in Sonoma Muffin Works in Sebastopol. With the help of new head brewer, Andrew Floraday, who brewed for Sebastopol’s Woodfour Brewing Company for the past three years, Moxley plans to update the current beer lineup with some new editions.
Dempsey’s was the first brewpub in Sonoma County, opening in 1991, and has been offering locals one of the best outdoor dining spots ever since. One of Petaluma’s oldest continually operating restaurants, Moxley says he doesn’t plan on changing the food menu, but I hope this isn’t true. Although Dempsey’s menu is great, change is good, especially when trying to put your own brand on a newly acquired restaurant.
The Ultimate Wine Cruise
Wine lovers set sail on March 23, 2017, for seven days of cruising along France’s Rhone River, visiting ancient Roman ruins, medieval villages, and of course tasting the region’s best food and wine.
UPDATED: Please read and follow our commenting policy: