Seattle Food Events Calendar Highlights Dec 27 – Jan 2

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Once again, relatively slim pickings out there for food-related events as we close out the 2007 holiday season.  Even the Cajun-Zydecko events calendar (you didn’t even know that existed, did you, Reader?  Well I did, because I care) is looking kind of bare.  And I really could have and should have gone all out compiling New Year's Eve options but...I didn't. 

Highlights!!  See the Seattle Food Events Calendar for full details and contact info.

Thursday, Dec 27: FareStart Reservations available for Christopher Hartfield from Marianna's by the Market.

Friday, Dec 28

• Another Port and Chocolate event at Theo Chocolates.  Might be last of the season.
• Viva Las Vegas starts a short run at dinner-and-a-movie-in-one-spot Central Cinema. 7pm and 9:30pm Friday-Sunday.

Monday, Dec 31

• What do you want from me?  I couldn't be bothered to research all the restaurants offering prix fixe special menus, but OpenTable's undoubtedly paid content producers did. Link in event.
• BUT I did see a couple events on Craigslist that were, at least, something different than yer average four-courses for $XX...
  • A "Bellydance Bash," which includes performances by "Delilah, Dahlia and House of Tarab," live music with open dancing, champagne and baklava at midnight, a henna artist and psychic to tell you if 2008 is going to suck as much as all the finance and economics people are saying it's going to.  In Bothell, see Calendar for reservation contact.
  • Bollywood New Year in Redmond.  With Bollywood music and "gourmet Indian buffet." Again, see Calendar for deets.

Tuesday, Jan 1: Take your pick; how do you want to kick off 2008?  Being...

• ...gluttonous/slightly queasy? Hangover Brunch at 0/8 Seafood Grill.  (Some part of me feels mildly nauseated at the idea of putting the words "hangover" and "seafood" in the same sentence, let alone sending a hungover person to be in a place called "Seafood Grill" but I assume they will have appropriate hangover food - i.e., fatty eggs and cheese - and they were the only hangover event I found.)
• ...or virtuous/mildly self-flagellating?  Resolution Run and Polar Bear Dive: 5k run, kids fun run and optional dip in Lake Washington for the insane/dare-susceptible.  Only marginally a food event, but there will be a beer garden!  And chili, hot cider and hot chocolate. 

Wednesday, Jan 2: New Urban Eats special promotion starts.  20 newer Seattle restaurants offer special prix fixe menu with appetizer, entree and dessert for $30.  Focuses on fine-dining restaurants under 3-years-old, with "independent concepts," have average major review of 2 stars or above (or are too new to have been reviewed) and whose prices skew above average.  See link in event for full list of restaurants. Caveat from The Stranger: "With the prices at many of these restaurants, $30 for three courses is basically like getting a free dessert (while being limited to dining on certain days from a 'special menu'). If you’re not a big fan of punctuating your meal with a sugar fix, N.U.E. isn’t that great of a deal."  So maybe take a look at the menu for the restaurant before deciding to eat there through the N.U.E. dealie.