The eighth annual event at the Metro State University of Denver campus starts Thursday and the grand tasting is Saturday.

Saturday’s grand tasting runs from noon to 4 p.m. More than 30 of Denver’s finest restaurants and hundreds of wines and spirits from around the world are included in the $95 general admission tickets per person. VIP tickets, which includes early entry at 11 a.m. and access to the Brown Palace catered VIP area, are $250 each. Tickets will be available at the door at 7th and Lawrence Streets.

To purchase Denver Food and Wine Classic tickets, visit here.

No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

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Restaurants Rock!

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More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

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Friday events include tickets to Restaurants Rock!

Bottomless Bellinis at Panzano

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Sneak Peek breakfast

Spiegelau glass seminar

Plenty of fun food options

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There’s still plenty of fun to be had this week at the 2012 Denver Food and Wine Classic, starting Thursday and running through Saturday at the Metro State University of Denver campus.

A tribute dinner to Dario Cecchini, the Mad Butcher of Panzano, Italy, starts off the three-day festival at 6 p.m. Thursday at Panzano restaurant at 909 17th St. Panzano chef Elise Wiggins has planned a special, four-course dinner with wine pairings to celebrate the Italian artisan butcher, chef and restaurant owner. Tickets are $95 per person and a special, limited chefs’ counter seating is available for $125. Call Panzano at 303-295-3525 for reservations.

Friday’s activities include three fascinating seminars, all at the Springhill Suites by Marriott at the new Metropolitan State University of Denver Hospitality Learning Center.

The dueling chefs seminar, 3:30-5 p.m., features Colorado chefs Kelly Liken and Jenna Johansen. Both chefs were featured on Bravo network, Liken on “Top Chef” and Johansen on “Around the World in 80 Plates.” The seminar is $20 per person.

A Spiegelau beer glass seminar will run from 3:30-4:30 p.m. and includes beer tasting, a four-piece Spiegelau glass set and a lesson in the importance of the beer glasses in serving your favorite hops. Tickets are $50 and the glass set are worth $49 alone.

The Riedel glass seminar, 5:30-6:30 p.m., is $75 per person and includes a $138 set of wine glasses from one of the world’s greatest glass makers. You also will enjoy four fabulous  wines and a discussion of Riedel stemware.

Also, all three seminars include entry to Restaurants Rock!

Restaurants Rock! concludes the Friday night fun for the eighth annual Denver Food and Wine Classic from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Liken and Johansen will co-host the party, which will feature wine, spirits, food from local restaurants and entertainment from local band, Opie Gone Band.

Denver Food and Wine Classic concludes with the grand tasting event from noon-4 p.m. Tickets are $95 per person. Besides tastings from 38 of the Denver-area’s finest restaurants, spirits and wines, the grand tasting event includes the Viking Culinary Chef Showcase. The showcase will feature two Colorado chefs, Elise Wiggins of Panzano and Daniel Asher of Linger and Root Down, and Dario Cecchini, the Mad Butcher of Italy in the first chef showcase at 1 p.m. at the Viking Stage.

VIP tickets, which include early entry to the grand tasting (11 a.m.), access to the Brown Palace Hotel catered area and more, are available for $250 per person.

To purchase Denver Food and Wine Classic tickets, visit here.

No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

Riedel wine glass experience

Restaurants Rock!

Original Wailers Wednesdays

Linger featured in L.A. Times

Ambria featured in Colorado’s Best TV segment

Brown Palace is the bees’ knees

Springhill Suites’ special DF&WC rate

Dueling Colorado celebrity chefs

More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

Little Man Ice Cream has a big heart

Salute to DF&WC sponsors

Friday events include tickets to Restaurants Rock!

Bottomless Bellinis at Panzano

Save $20 on DF&WC tickets

Sneak Peek breakfast

Spiegelau glass seminar

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Cost for the seminar is $50 per person and includes a four-piece set of Spiegelau beer glasses and admission to the Friday night Restaurants Rock! event at 6:30 p.m. that same night.

This seminar will forever change the way you think about serving and enjoying craft beer. Exceptional glassware is the key to elevating all facets of this delicious subject and the Spiegelau beer connoisseur tasting seminar shows you how. Learn firsthand how color, clarity, aroma, temperature and effervescence are all dramatically enhanced with Spiegelau glass versus the standard type of beer glasses. Enjoy craft beer the way it was intended to be and go home with a beautiful Spiegelau beer connoisseur four- piece set to keep ($49 value)! Featured beers will consist of Light Lager, Wheat, IPA and Belgian style brews.

Seating is limited. Advance reservations and payment required. Buy tickets here.

No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

Riedel wine glass experience

Restaurants Rock!

Original Wailers Wednesdays

Linger featured in L.A. Times

Ambria featured in Colorado’s Best TV segment

Brown Palace is the bees’ knees

Springhill Suites’ special DF&WC rate

Dueling Colorado celebrity chefs

More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

Little Man Ice Cream has a big heart

Salute to DF&WC sponsors

Friday events include tickets to Restaurants Rock!

Bottomless Bellinis at Panzano

Save $20 on DF&WC tickets

Sneak Peek breakfast

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Tickets are just $25 and include breakfast and a tour of the new hospitality learning center at the Springhill Suites by Marriott on the Metro State campus afterward.

Xavier A. Teixido (left), chairman of the board of trustees of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation,  is the featured speaker. Teixido has served as chairman of the National Restaurant Association (2002-2003). In 1999, he was named
Delaware Restaurateur of the Year and was recipient of Delaware’s first Cornerstone Award in 2003.

The eighth annual Denver Food and Wine Classic will be held September 6-8, concluding with the grand tasting event from noon-4 p.m.

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Jill’s is one of 38 participating restaurants for the Denver Food and Wine Classic on September 6-8 at the Metro State University of Denver campus.

Each day, chef Laurent Mechin and his team create antipasti salads, homemade pizzas from Jill’s wood stone oven and a soup of the day. Many ingredients chosen for the Tuscan table are sourced locally and several include aromatics grown in the garden of the St Julien Hotel, where’s Jill’s is located.

Among the items featured on the Tuscan table buffet: soup, antipasti bar and salads, panini of the day, “create your own” pasta bar, pizza, strombolis, roast or fish of the day and chef’s selection of desserts.

No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

Riedel wine glass experience

Restaurants Rock!

Original Wailers Wednesdays

Linger featured in L.A. Times

Ambria featured in Colorado’s Best TV segment

Brown Palace is the bees’ knees

Springhill Suites’ special DF&WC rate

Dueling Colorado celebrity chefs

More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

Little Man Ice Cream has a big heart

Salute to DF&WC sponsors

Friday events include tickets to Restaurants Rock!

Bottomless Bellinis at Panzano

Save $20 on DF&WC tickets

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The friends and family package includes $20 off the general admission ticket of $95 for the grand tasting event on Saturday, September 8 on the Metro State campus at 7th and Lawrence Streets.

At the grand tasting event, you can sample more than 600 featured wines, signature spirits, cuisine from 38 of Denver’s finest restaurants, and featuring a Viking Culinary Chef Showcase, Bourbon Street Spirits Tent, Pernod Ricard’s “Perfect Mix” Lounge, Skyy Spirits, Patron Spirits, Kahlua, W.J. Deutch wines, Trinchero Family Vineyards, and silent wine auction.

No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

Riedel wine glass experience

Restaurants Rock!

Original Wailers Wednesdays

Linger featured in L.A. Times

Ambria featured in Colorado’s Best TV segment

Brown Palace is the bees’ knees

Springhill Suites’ special DF&WC rate

Dueling Colorado celebrity chefs

More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

Little Man Ice Cream has a big heart

Salute to DF&WC sponsors

Friday events include tickets to Restaurants Rock!

Bottomless Bellinis at Panzano

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Panzano is one of the 38 participating restaurants in this year’s Denver Food and Wine Classic at the grand tasting event on Saturday, September 8.  Panzano also is hosting a tribute dinner for Dario Cecchini, the “Mad Butcher of Panzano Italy,” on Thursday, September 6.

Try out the eye opener consisting of peach puree and Prosecco. Reservations: 303-296-3525 or online.

No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

Riedel wine glass experience

Restaurants Rock!

Original Wailers Wednesdays

Linger featured in L.A. Times

Ambria featured in Colorado’s Best TV segment

Brown Palace is the bees’ knees

Springhill Suites’ special DF&WC rate

Dueling Colorado celebrity chefs

More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

Little Man Ice Cream has a big heart

Salute to DF&WC sponsors

Friday events include tickets to Restaurants Rock!

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The dinner is the opening event for the eighth annual Denver Food and Wine Classic and will start at 6 p.m. at Panzano, 909 17th St. The dinner is $95 per person and includes dinner, wine, tax and gratuity. A limited chefs’ counter seating is available at $125 per person.

Cecchini  has been an artisan butcher for 37 years and he operates Antica Macelleria Cecchini in the Tuscan town of Panzano. Cecchini also will be featured at the Viking stage on Saturday, September 8 at the grand tasting event of the Denver Food and Wine Classic at the Metro State University of Denver campus.

A portion of the proceeds for the tribute dinner will benefit Colorado ProStart, a high school hospitality education program of the Colorado Restaurant Association and the Colorado Hotel & Lodging Association. To reserve a seat, call Panzano at 303-296-3525.

No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

Riedel wine glass experience

Restaurants Rock!

Original Wailers Wednesdays

Linger featured in L.A. Times

Ambria featured in Colorado’s Best TV segment

Brown Palace is the bees’ knees

Springhill Suites’ special DF&WC rate

Dueling Colorado celebrity chefs

More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

Little Man Ice Cream has a big heart

Salute to DF&WC sponsors

Friday events include tickets to Restaurants Rock!

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Restaurants Rock! is a three-hour party starting at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, September 7  at the Springhill Suites by Marriott on the Metropolitan State University of Denver campus.

Two Bravo network celebrity chefs – Kelly Liken (“Top Chef”) and Jenna Johansen (“Around the World In 80 Plates”) will host the  Restaurants Rock! party at the newly-opened Springhill Suites by Marriott. The three-hour party costs $35 per person and raises money for the Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Colorado Restaurant AssociationEducation Foundation‘s ProStart program – a nationwide, two-year program that unites industry and the classroom to develop the best and brightest talent into tomorrow’s restaurant and food service leaders.

The party will feature entertainment by local band, Opie Gone Bad, wine and spirits provided by Southern Wine & Spirits of Colorado and food samplings from celebrated local restaurants.

The first of three seminars before Restaurants Rock! is a Dueling Chefs culinary battle (3:30-5 p.m.)  featuring  Colorado chefs Kelly Liken and Jenna Johansen. Liken  (“Top Chef”) and Johansen  (“Around the World in 80 Plates”) were featured on Bravo network programs. The seminar is $20.

All three seminars and Restaurants Rock! will be held at the Springhill Suites by Marriott on the Metro State University of Denver campus.

No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

Riedel wine glass experience

Restaurants Rock!

Original Wailers Wednesdays

Linger featured in L.A. Times

Ambria featured in Colorado’s Best TV segment

Brown Palace is the bees’ knees

Springhill Suites’ special DF&WC rate

Dueling Colorado celebrity chefs

More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

Little Man Ice Cream has a big heart

Salute to DF&WC sponsors

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During the grand tasting event on Saturday, September 8, visitors to the eighth annual event can experience to cooking wisdom of three of the world’s best chefs. Renowned chef and Italian butcher Dari Cecchini (left) will kick off the Viking Culinary Chef Showcase at 1p.m. on Saturday, September 8. Cecchini, dubbed the “mad butcher of Panzano,” is an eighth-generation butcher and restaurant from the Tuscan town of Panzano in Italy. Cecchini will be feted at a tribute dinner at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 6 at Panzano  restaurant at 909 17th St. in downtown Denver.

Panzano restaurant’s Elise Wiggins is the second chef featured at 2 p.m. September 8 at the Viking Culinary Chef Showcase. Daniel Asher, chef at Linger and Root Down, two fine Denver restaurants and Denver Food and Wine Classic participants, will finish the

showcase at 3 p.m.

The showcase is sponsored by Viking ranges, Whole Foods Markets and the Seattle Fish Co. The showcase is included in the $95 ticket6 to the final-day grand tasting event, which will be held on the campus of Metro State University of Denver.

Ticket for the grand tasting, the Dario Cecchini tribute dinner and other events of the Denver Food and Wine Classic can be purchased online and will available at the door.

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No one will go thirsty

Food choices galore

Organizations benefit from three-day event

Buy your tickets today

Riedel wine glass experience

Restaurants Rock!

Original Wailers Wednesdays

Linger featured in L.A. Times

Ambria featured in Colorado’s Best TV segment

Brown Palace is the bees’ knees

Springhill Suites’ special DF&WC rate

Dueling Colorado celebrity chefs

More than 600 wine choices at DF&WC

Little Man Ice Cream has a big heart

Salute to DF&WC sponsors

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