Auburn Food and Wine Festival holds its first benefit dinners

The Auburn Food items and Wine Festival is back and prepared for newcomers. On Oct. 14 and 15, the Auburn Food and Wine Competition will be hosting reward dinners at a few diverse places to eat each and every night. 

On Thursday night, the profit dinners will be held at The Waverly Regional, Moores Mill Region Club and The Depot. For Friday evening, the gain dinners will be hosted at Acre, The Hound and Christine’s Endless. 

The Auburn Meals and Wine Festival gain dinners provides a likelihood for the group to emphasize the culinary scene in Auburn. 

This 12 months, Aaron Norris and Katy Blackburn acquired the festival from Christine Healey, who assisted start the Auburn Meals and Wine Festival again in 2019. Healey was a neighborhood chef and caterer who not too long ago retired and moved household to Canada.

With COVID-19 putting a halt on nearly anything going on in 2020, Norris and Blackburn did not want to enable a further yr go by with no holding an occasion. Consequently, the gain dinners had been established. This is the very first year they will arise.

“The first matter we want to do is benefit these places to eat,” Norris stated. “After the labor shortages and COVID, these dining establishments have been hit tough.” 

When Norris and Blackburn approached the dining establishments, they advised the chefs they could have innovative reign around the menus for the dinners and which beverages to pair with every. 

The profit dinners will be held with smaller teams at the eating places, where the chefs will walk by means of their menu.

Along with the profit dinners donating to community charities, participants will be able to partake in the East Alabama Neighborhood Ballet digital silent auction. Any one can choose aspect in the virtual silent auction, even if a person does not go to the benefit dinners. 

The Waverly Area will be benefitting the Foodstuff Bank of East Alabama’s Backpack Program. The Depot will be benefitting the Lee County Humane Society. The Hound will be benefitting Nourish. Christine’s Endless will be benefitting the Boys & Girls Club of Larger Lee County.

Tickets are going rapid, with Moores Mill State Club, The Depot, Acre and Christine’s Limitless currently staying sold out. On the other hand, tickets are still readily available for The Waverly Area and The Hound. 

Contributors who are able to go to both evenings of the gain dinners will get a price cut for the tickets at their obtain.