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Pencil This In: Green Flash Dinner At Big Star

By Amy Cavanaugh in Food on Dec 9, 2012 5:00PM

2012_12_09_greenflash.jpg Big Star announced its latest beer dinner this week, and it's a collaboration with San Diego brewery Green Flash on December 18.

The four-course dinner will feature four beer pairings (plus a "welcome beer"), and there are two seatings, at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Here's the menu:

First: Hamachi Crudo, apple, pomegranate, chili, shaved celery
Beer: Belgian Blonde

Second: Pan roasted sweetbreads, piloncillo, orange zest butter, citrus salad
Beer: 30th Street Pale Ale

Third: Drowned fried oyster po’boy, salsify chips
Beer: Rayon Vert Belgian-Style Pale Ale

Fourth: Duck confit, chopped hazelnut-date salsa, sunchoke puree, cavolo nero
Beer: Double Stout Black Ale

Tickets are $70, and only available by going to the bar at the restaurant and buying a ticket. And while you're there you might as well dig into a few pork belly tacos.