Sample food featuring local ingredients from 20 Boulder restaurants and wine from 25 Colorado wineries at the Boulder Food & Wine Festival, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday in Central Park (Broadway and Canyon).
Participating restaurants include Laudisio, Mateo, Leaf, Flagstaff House, The Kitchen and Q’s Restaurant. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door, and include unlimited wine and mead tastings and five food coupons.
At 1, 2 and 3 p.m., teachers from the Culinary School of the Rockies will demonstrate cooking techniques; on the half-hour, wine experts will talk about pairing wine and food.
In the waiter’s race at 2 p.m., service pros will run while carrying trays of glasses full of red wine.
The Swingin’ Seven Dance Orchestra, an eight- piece big band, and Ginga, a Brazilian band led by Boulder guitarist Bill Kopper, will perform.
Proceeds go to the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, which will have adoptable pets at the event.
Tickets are available at , or at the event itself, and include a $5 coupon valid toward the purchase of a bottle of wine, food and wine samples, a keepsake wine glass and buffet plate, and a Colorado wine canvas tote. Wine sample bracelets are available only to those 21 and older.
–Kristen Browning-Blas
