Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto is hosting the 10th Annual Crabby Chef’s Seafood Festival. Listen to live music, buy crab cakes from local food vendors and get fish for dinner at a mobile retail fish store, which just happens to be on an 18-wheel truck. The highlight is an Iron Chef style competition, which begins at 2 pm. Chefs will create dishes that will feature crab and a secret ingredient, which will be unveiled at the last minute. A team of judges, including yours truly, will pick the winner. Proceeds benefit the Cal Recreational Sports Development Fund’s Camp Scholarship Program.
1919 Fourth Street, Berkeley
510-845-7771
Sun, 10/17, 11am – 4pm
free admission
photo: Berkeley Homes
Street food vendors (Skylite Snowball, Jon’s Street Eats, Chairman Bao, etc.) local restaurants (Sea Salt, Cioccolata Di Vino, Saturn Cafe) and artisan food purveyors (INNAjam, Live For More Fudge, etc) are the focus of the 8th Annual Spice of Life Festival. And ,it wouldn’t be complete without chef demos, live music and activities for the kids.
Shattuck Ave. from Rose to Virginia St, Berkeley
Sun, 10/17th, 10am-6 pm
free admission
Chop Bar’s monthly pig roasts will go on hiatus during the winter, so you might want to stop by on Sunday. They’ll also have plenty of veggies for the herbivores and PieTisserie will bring the sweets.
247 4th Street, Oakland
510-834-2467
Sun, 10/17, 5:30pm
$15
There’s not one, but two Iron Chef style competitions in the East Bay this week: Crabby Chef and the Seasonal Dinner Showdown. In the Showdown, 2 chefs from FIVE restaurant (Banks White and Scott Howard) will be up against 2 chefs from Pican (Dean Dupuis and Charlie Copley). The theme is Deep South, so the 5 course dinner will include cornmeal crusted catfish and sock-it-to-me cake. The teams will serve a dish for each course, side by side, and diners will score them based on creativity, taste and presentation. An optional beer pairing is available from Drakes Brewing.
2086 Allston Way, Berkeley
510-225-6055
Thurs, 10/21, 7pm
$62, $70 with beer pairings
The Oakland Museum’s Día de los Muertos celebration is included in the regular price of admission. Walk through the exhibition, watch the dance performance, make masks and watch Meso-American arts and foods demonstrations. Local food vendors will be there to sell tacos, tamales and other Mexican specialties. The museum’s Blue Oak Café plans to serve tacos (carne asada, pollo asado, carnitas and veggie), agua fresca, horchata, elote con crema y queso (grilled corn with sour cream and cheese), tres leches bread pudding and flan.
1000 Oak Street, Oakland
510-238-2200
Sat, 10/23, 12 – 4:30pm
$12 general, $9 students and seniors, $6 youth, free for kids under 8
photo: Oakland Museum
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