happy hour: hausbar farm, 4/19/2012

April 13, 2012

Date: Thursday April 19, 2012, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Hausbar Farm, near 3278 Govalle Ave, Austin, TX 78702
RSVP: karlal@slowfoodaustin.org
Slow Food Austin will host our seasonal third thursday farm Happy Hour at Dorsey Barger and Susan Hausman’s Hausbar Farm. The evening will feature food sourced directly from the farm and prepared by [...]

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slow session: the essentials of refrigerator pickling, 4/11/2012

April 3, 2012

Date: Wednesday April 11, 2012  6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Chef Sonya Cote’s Urban Kitchen: 2104 Rosewood Avenue, Austin, Texas 78702
(It’s a blue house on top of the hill just past Chicon as you are heading east from downtown.)
Recommendations for Parking:
Parking is available on Northwestern (free street parking)
The Learning Center parking lot on the corner [...]

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austrian wine dinner, 3/27/2012

March 21, 2012

Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 6:30 pm
Location: Springdale Farm, 755 Springdale Road, Austin, Texas
Tickets: 5 Course Seated Dinner $65 a person (includes wine) THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.
Please Join Slow Food Austin for a very special 5 course dinner at Springdale Farm featuring incredible biodynamic wines from Austria paired with a locally sourced Austrian meal [...]

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farm tour: indian hills farm, 3/18/2012

March 7, 2012

Date: Sunday, March 18th, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Indian Hills Farm, 267 Big Bow, Smithville, Texas  78957
Tickets: $20, purchase online
Slow Food Austin is happy to announce the return of farm tours for the 2012 season. Please join us on an educational tour of Indian Hills Farm, where we will meet Hersh and [...]

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slow session: slow down with food on wheels: austin’s food trailers, 3/14/2012

March 6, 2012

Date: Wednesday, March 14th, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Habitat Suites Conference Room, 500 East Highland Mall Boulevard  Austin, TX 78752
RSVP: Please email Chelsea Staires at chelsea@slowfoodaustin.org
We know you love Austin’s delicious and thought-provoking trailer food movement as much as we do.  So we invite you to join us as Tiffany Harelik, founder of Austin’s [...]

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Kallari Chocolate Tasting and Educational Presentation, 2/26/2012

February 9, 2012

Date: Sunday, February 26, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Center 61, 2921 E. 17th Street in East Austin 78702
Tickets: $10 for Slow Food members; $15 for non-members (Seats are limited)
Proceeds benefit the Kallari Association

Learn about regional flavor profiles of chocolate from cocoa seedlings to chocolate bars:

Participants will savor gourmet chocolates from around the world during the [...]

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happy hour: foreign and domestic, 2/16/2012

February 8, 2012

Date: Thursday, February 16, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Foreign and Domestic, 306 E.53rd Street, Austin, TX 78751

Our  monthly Happy Hour will be Thursday, February 16th at Foreign & Domestic 5:30-8pm featuring a special charcuterie menu prepared by Chef Ned Elliott and a $5 Slow Drink Menu featuring beer from St. [...]

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slow session: the mighty cocoa bean, 2/8/2012

February 2, 2012

Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Gallery Black Lagoon, 4301 A. Guadalupe Street, Austin TX, 78751 (Parking is available in the shared parking lot with The Parlor Pizza Restaurant next door, as well as 70 parking spots below the office building directly behind the gallery.)
RSVP: Please email Chelsea Staires at chelsea@slowfoodaustin.org
See the [...]

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buying local in american business

January 23, 2012

This MSNBC video describes how the local economy benefits from the interdependence of food businesses. Austin’s own Green Gate Farms, Greenling, and Slow Money Austin appear in the video.

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happy hour: contigo austin, 1/19/2012

January 17, 2012

Date: Thursday, January 19th 2012, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Contigo Austin, 2027 Anchor Ln Austin, Texas 78723
RSVP here

Slow Food Austin’s monthly Happy Hour will be Thursday, January 19th at Contigo from 5:30 pm until 8:00 pm featuring a very special menu prepared by Chef Andrew Wiseheart and a $5 Slow [...]

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