Enjoy an extended happy hour tonight at Waldo Thai Place (8341 Wornall Road), featuring the famend Italian bartender and entrepreneur Giancarlo Mancino, proprietor and founding father of Mancino Vermouths. Mancino will be running along with Waldo Thai bartenders Darrell Loo and Mari Matsumoto from five p.m. All cocktails, featuring vermouths, Chinato, and aperitifs, will be $7. Glad hour plates will be available at the bar area at some point during the event. No tickets are required.
Wednesday, June 19
Lidia’s Kansas City (101 West 22nd Street) is hosting a mini rosé festival tonight from 6-eight p.m. Enjoy six styles of rosé, along with paired appetizers and a live song. The occasion is $45 someone (specific of tax and gratuity), and reservations are helpful; however, no longer required to secure a spot, name 816-221-3722.
The American (2 hundred East Twenty-fifth Street) is supplying an unprecedented opportunity to examine from the government chef Andrew Longres at some stage in a 3-course demonstration dinner in its storied Crown Center area. Chef Londres will demonstrate prep and cooking techniques for two savory dishes — marinated tomatoes with goat cheese and basil and French saffron dressing; a slow-roasted bass with marinated zucchini caponata-stuffed squash blossoms — and one dessert. Guests will then devour the one’s dishes alongside paired wine picks. The event is $ eighty-five for someone, along with food, drink, tax, and gratuity. Call 816-245-7331 for reservations.
A pair of beer occasions mark this 12 months’ summer solstice. First, there’s the Solstice Party at City Barrel Brewing Company (1740 Holmes Road). The brewery releases its most recent kettle sour, named Sunshine!, and is throwing a tiki party to have a good time. Each forte takes a domestic tiki glass (beer-blanketed) and is $10. Further east, Crane Brewing Company (6515 Railroad Street) is throwing its annual “Longest Day on the Taproom” occasion. From 2-10 p.m., a portion of all beer income will benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.
Sample plenty of local wine, beer, and meals in an idyllic small-town Kansas setting at Baldwin City’s Wine & Brew (715 High Street). Each $25 price ticket includes samples from local wineries and breweries, inclusive of Smoky Hill Vineyards & Winery, BlueJacket Crossing Vineyard & Winery, Haven Pointe Winery, Wyldewood Cellars, White Tail Run Winery, and Vineyard, Happy Basset Brewing Co, Wichita Brewing Co & Pizzeria, Wakarusa Brewing Company, Radius Brewing Company, and Not Lost Brewing. Several meal vehicles and live tunes will also be on hand. Snag tickets through Eventbrite.
Bluestem (900 Westport Road) welcomes Suntory Brand Ambassador Damon McCracken for a 5-course Japanese spirits dinner offering Suntory Toki whiskey and several other spirits. The meal consists of a cocktail reception at 6 p.M., with dinner following at 7 p.M. A couple of sample dishes: Faroe Island Salmon served with pickled fennel, lemongrass, miso, and horseradish; and grilled ribeye served with koji, corn, bone marrow, kohlrabi, snow peas, and a rice cracker in veal jus. The meal is $100 a person (not such as tax and gratuity). Make your reservations through Tock.
Saturday, June 22
Out in Lawrence, the Bourgeois Pig (6 East Ninth Street) is marking 25 years in commercial enterprise with the Big Pig, a street competition offering stay track, masses of meals, and of course, espresso and drinks. Food and refreshments can be available from Apothecary Food Truck, Mass St. Fish House, Leeway Franks, Lark a Fare, G’s Jamaican Cuisine, Repetition Coffee, and the Direction of the Pig. Musical artists performing for the occasion’s duration include Heidi Gluck, Arthur Dodge, and the Horsefeathers, amongst others. The birthday party is loose and runs from 2 p.m. To midnight.
Head out to the Renaissance Festival Grounds (633 N 126th Street) for the annual Brew-B-Q meals truck and craft beer pageant. Barbecue food trucks wear it out for top honors while visitors sample beers from expanding nearby and countrywide breweries—this year’s occasion functions as a Game of Thrones topic. Tickets are $35 for adults (and encompass unlimited beer), plus the food is available for purchase. Tickets for specified drivers are $five.
