Once again, Hai over at Ngon Bistro has lined up quite the tasting menu for New Years Eve for only $40.

First Course: Coconut Cream & Acorn Squash Soup, candied walnuts and house-cured bacon
Second Course: House Cured Lamb Belly & Daikon Cake, local greens in a wasabi sauce
Third Course: Wild rice crusted Star Prairie Trout & oyster mushrooms with a spicy quava mint sauce
Fourth Course: Five spice Braised Fischer Farms Pork Shank with sweet potatoes & pickled greens

For an extra charge, your meal can be paired with your choice of wine ($20) or beer ($15)–but given that they’ll be tapping Surly Darkness, Surly Five & a firkin of Lift Bridge Farm Girl with Asian plums, I’d opt for the beer.

Reservations can be made at their website or their Facebook page, but make yours today, its sure to fill up!

Senor Wong in St. Paul will feature a four course, five beer dinner with Goose Island on November 9th. ?Read on for a menu. Sounds tasty! Makes me want to crack a Matilda right now…

First Course

Opah and Rock Shrimp Ceviche

Red onion, serrano chili, cucumber, cilantro, fresh orange, yuzu juice.

Served with Goose Island Sofie

Second Course

Caramel Apple

Slow-cooked pork cheek, miso-caramel sauce, granny smith apple-chive salad, rice vinegar dressing.

Served with Goose Island Matilda

Third Course

Duck, Duck, Goose…Island

Sichuan pepper crusted breast, duck & foie gras xiao long bao (soup dumpling)

miniature bok choy, oyster mushroom, carrots, black cardamom jus.

Served with Goose Island Pepe Nero

Fourth Course

Chocoflan

Hazelnut cajeta (goat milk caramel), pepita & maria cookie streusel, ripe bananna ice cream.

Served with 2008 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout.

http://senorwong.com/beerdinner.html.

Great Waters is hosting a five course beer dinner that includes some seasonal beers and plenty of tasty eats. Tickets are $65/person, or $55/person if you are a MBA member. Stop in or call 651-224-2739. They are also giving away two tickets to the event to one lucky winner who posts which course they think sounds the best on their Facebook page.

Beer Dinner Menu

Course 1:
Stout & Goat Cheese Soup with The Blackwatch Oat Stout

Course 2:
Wild Rice Walleye Cakes and a Rosemary Mandarin Vinaigrette with The Golden Prairie Blonde

Course 3:
Banana Leaf Wrapped Pork and Vegetables in Guajillo Sauce and Basmati Rice with New Centurian Mild Ale spiked with Cocoa Nibs and Ancho Peppers

Course 4:
Shrimp and Scallops over Fettuchini in a Poblano Cream Sauce with Scotch Ale

Course 5:
Triple Chocolate Mousse Cake with Belgian Bruin