Enjoy A Stimulating Dinner Party With Fear No Art

By Lorna Juett in Food on Nov 24, 2012 7:00PM

You know those dinner parties that wind for hours, with a guest list carefully curated for lively conversation, evocative topics, and raucous laughter? You can be a part of one this Monday November 26, as a guest of Fear No Art’s Dinner Party. For $25 you can join SNL alum Tim Kazurinsky, Peter Sagal of "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" and violinist Rachel Barton Pine over tasty morsels created by Jared Van Camp of Nellcote at Mayne Stage Chicago.

The Dinner Party is Fear No Art’s live-streaming 90-minute show that incorporates luminaries from food, wine, music, art, and acting to come together and participate in wine-fueled discourse, moderated by host Elizabeth Alfano. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the dinner party starting at 7 p.m.

Guests of the event not only enjoy lively conversation, but also enjoy wine pairings provided by Hirtzberger/Vin Divino with chocolate from Chicago favorite, Vosges. The menu includes appetizer tastings of chestnut agnolotti made with house-milled flour with butternut squash, crispy Brussels sprout leaves, braised duck and artisanal gouda cheese and entree tastings of speck-wrapped sturgeon with fennel sauerkraut, mustard knefla and quince gastrique.

If you’re there by 6:30 p.m., you will be treated to music from vocalist Lynne Jordan. Artist Dimitri Samarov sketches live throughout the night.

Can’t make it to the show? You can watch live online here, or catch up with them on YouTube.

Mayne Stage is located at 1328 W. Morse Avenue, tickets can be purchased here.