Category: events

Date: Thursday August 18th, 5:30pm – 7:30 pm
Location: The ABGB, 1305 W. Oltorf Austin, TX 78704
Cost: $15 suggested donation, payable with cash or credit card
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For our August Happy Hour, meet us at The ABGB for local, craft beer and seasonal pizzas and lots of other great drinks and snacks too! We’ll be celebrating our Austin delegates to Terra Madre as they prepare to attend the Slow Food International event in September in Turin, Italy. Donations will benefit our Terra Madre delegates and Slow Food Austin, and with a donation you will receive a ticket good for a beer, a glass of wine, or a can of Argus cider.

Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto is Slow Food’s largest international gathering that happens every two years in Turin, Italy. It brings together farmers, chefs, writers, educators and food producers from over 150 countries to discuss and celebrate edible biodiversity and the future of food. It is the largest food festival on earth and perhaps the most diverse – attracting the Slow Food Movement’s vast Terra Madre Network of indigenous food communities from around the word. It is designed so that everyone from a First Nations farmer to a Michelin-starred chef can eat together and exchange ideas. Through its many lectures, exhibitions, panel discussions, dinners, and tasting workshops – Terra Madre is an educational experience for Slow Foodies to learn more about the cultures that surround food, international food policy issues (such as land grabbing and seed patenting), and sustainable solutions for the future. Slow Food Austin helped select the group of Austin-area delegates who will represent the U.S. this September at Terra Madre 2016 and share the ideas our city has to offer with the world. Our group of delegates are leaders in Austin’s sustainable food movement, and we are confident that they will each use the wisdom and experiences they glean from Terra Madre to benefit our community. Help us support our delegates at this life-changing global gathering!

Date: Thursday, July 21st, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: L’oca D’oro, 1900 Simond Ave, Austin, TX 78723
Cost: $10 suggested donation, payable with cash or credit card
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Summer is here, and it’s time to relax and enjoy happy hour fun at one of Austin’s newest restaurants. Join us at L’Oca d’Oro for happy hour on the third Thursday of July. There will be bar snacks and a menu of icy cold cocktails, wine, and beer. Donations will benefit Slow Food Austin and our scholarship program. Come out to help us welcome this new restaurant to the local food scene.

Date: Thursday, June 16, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Independence Brewing Co., 3913 Todd Ln. Ste 607, Austin, TX 78744
Cost: $15 suggested donation, payable with cash or credit card
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For this month’s happy hour, we’re going to the source. Join us at Independence Brewing Co. for cold beer and snacks from BENTO + PICNIC. A suggested donation of $15 will get your first beer and a Bento snack. Proceeds will benefit Festival Beach Food Forest and Slow Food Austin. Festival Beach Food Forest is currently raising $15,000 in order to meet requirements to receive a $65,000 grant. The funds will go toward accessible pathways, park benches, educational signage, and 1000 edible understory plants. Come out to show support for the project and help them reach their goal!

Date: Thursday, May 26, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Olamaie, 1610 San Antonio Street, Austin, TX 78701
Cost: $10 suggested donation, payable with cash or credit card
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Start your Memorial Day weekend fun on Thursday May 26th with Happy Hour at Olamaie. They’ll have a happy hour menu of cocktails and appetizers. The suggested donation of $10 will benefit Dewberry Hills Farm and Slow Food Austin. On Saturday, April 30th a massive thunderstorm devastated their small, sustainable, pastured poultry farm. 75-mile-an-hour winds and torrential rain destroyed the movable chicken tents, flooded pastures, and many birds were lost. All of this, after financial loss due to damage from a tornado on December 13th. The farm is raising funds to be able to make significant infrastructure changes and be better prepared for any future weather events. Join us for happy hour and to show support for another farm in need.

Date: Thursday, April 28th, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Barley Swine, 6555 Burnet Rd Suite 400, Austin, Texas 78757
Cost: $10 suggest donation payable with cash or credit cards
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Come out to celebrate spring at our Happy Hour on the patio at Barley Swine on Thursday April 28th. A special happy hour menu of cocktails and small plates will be offered. The suggested donation of $10 will benefit Tandem Farm Co. and Slow Food Austin. Tandem Farm is a family run livestock farm just outside of Austin, Texas. In a recent storm, the farm lost 375 meat birds which was a considerable loss of investment and future sale and was absolutely devastating to this farm.