The Florida Foodie
Nothing Says “I Love You” Better than Food: Fun, Foodie Things to do as a Couple
February is all about love with Valentine’s Day celebrated right in the middle of the month. What is more iconic than taking your significant other out to dinner of the day of love? Food and Valentine’s Day go hand in hand, whether it be a night out at your local steak house or a giant box of chocolates. Nice, yes, but if you are looking for something different this year, why not shake things up a bit and try one of these unique and interactive foodie experiences? Food is the language of love and what better way to say I love you than sharing a culinary adventure with the one you love?
Taste History Culinary Tours
http://tastehistoryculinarytours.org/culinaryfoodtours.html
561-243-2662 or 561-638-8277.
E-mail: [email protected]
Take a 3-4 hour cultural-historical-culinary tour of one of the many locations Taste History offers:
The Taste History Culinary Tour is an enjoyable cultural culinary journey that is three-hours to four-hours and a combination of bus riding and 4 to 6 blocks of walking, approximately. At least three to four eateries are visited for food tastings and some eating experiences are standing-only. The tour also includes trips to historic buildings or art galleries.
Taste History is offering their Lake Worth/Lantana tour on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14th. The cost is $45.00 per person and reservations are a must! These tours fill up fast so don’t delay in making your reservations. The company strives to make each tour an intimate and enjoyable event so participant numbers are limited for each tour to 15 to 20. At least 3-4 locally owned, family-run restaurants are visited during each tour. I am a big fan of Taste History’s dedication to focus on local, small-businesses that reflect the unique flare and flavor of each area the tour visits. Eateries are announced the day of the tour, but you can review previous tours to get a feel for where you will visit. The tour bus boards in the Macy’s parking lot at the Boynton Beach Mall. Most tours begin at 11:00am.
In The Kitchen: Cooking Classes & More!
Gallery Square North, 389 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta, FL 33469
561.747.7117 [email protected]
The couple that cooks together, stays together. In the Kitchen is a unique cooking space that offers something for every cook and foodie in your life.
In the Kitchen stocks unique gifts for all your foodie friends. At the heart of our shop is a beautiful demonstration kitchen where a variety of cooking classes are offered. Learn new techniques, improve your skills, or just sit back and have a great time! Join hands-on, interactive classes where the participants prepare and create incredible dishes along with our chefs, or, choose a demonstration class where our chef does all the cooking and you do all the tasting!
In The Kitchen specializes in REAL FOOD featuring fresh, natural ingredients. Seasonal, local and organic produce is used whenever available, and the finest quality meats, poultry, seafood and artisan products are on the table regularly.
In The Kitchen will offer a “date night” cooking class on Friday, February 13th featuring French cuisine. The class runs from 6:30pm to 8:30pm and costs $90.00. This is an opportunity to learn some great culinary skills and cook with the one you love. I, for one, believe nothing is more loving than to feed one another. In the Kitchen also has a retail store and provides catering.
Alton Brown Live! The Edible Inevitable Tour at the Kravis Center
Friday, February 6 at 8:00 PM in the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall
701 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
561-832-7469 www.kravis.org
A night at the theater is always good, with food as the theme, it’s even better! A night with Alton Brown is sure to delight!
With his upcoming tour, Alton Brown Live! The Edible Inevitable Tour, Alton Brown brings his brand of quirky humor and culinary-science antics to the stage. The two hour show is a unique blend of stand up comedy, food experimentation, talk show antics, multimedia lecture, and, for the first time…live music. Audience interaction is strictly enforced throughout the evening though; if you’re called upon as a culinary assistant, you’ll definitely want to take the lab coat Brown offers as things tend to get messy. Brown has worked his weird magic on live audiences across the nation for over a decade but this is the first time he’s actually hit the road with a live tour.
Though not on Valentine’s day, this show is not to be missed. Arrive early and dine at the KravisCenter’s Bistro Teatro café’. The café opens approximately an hour and a half before performances in Dreyfoos hall and offers casual light fare. Or try one of City Place’s endless options for dinning. The free trolley service will ferry you to and from the Kravis to City Place and Clematis. I strongly suggest parking at the Kravis and using the trolley or walking since parking is free with your performance.
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In her previous life, Sarah, a Palm Beach County Native, spent ten years working in various high-end eating establishments around South Florida. She is currently a fiction thesis candidate in the MFA program at Florida International University where she also teaches creative writing and rhetoric. If that is not enough, Sarah is also the owner of Cakes by Sarah, a local custom cake shop. Sarah lives in Lake Worth with her husband and two beautiful boys. “Food, fiction, and family are my life.”