Wine, beer, music in Redlands this afternoon

The Wine, Beer and Music Festival will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. today (June 23) at Ed Hales Park at the corner of Fifth and State streets in downtown Redlands.

The event will include wine and beer tastings from Paxton’s Cellar, State Street Winery, The Dregs, Hangar 24, Weins Family Cellars, Time in a Bottle and Monte de Oro Winery, along with hors d’oeuvres from The Farm, Wild Rocket, Hundehaus and Time in a Bottle.

Tickets ($20) are limited and include wine tasting, a wine glass, light refreshments and entertainment.

They are available at Paxton’s Cellar, State Street Winery, The Dregs, Time in a Bottle or the city’s Development Services Office, 210 E. Citrus Ave.

Redlands Daily Facts reporter Kristina Hernandez has previewed the event, which you can read here.

Tweet your fresh & easy Kitchen to Go favorites to win

Neighborhood market fresh & easy recently introduced its chef-created Kitchen to Go line — over 150 appetizer, side, prepared meal bowls and family entre options.

The selection includes a variety of American, Italian, Asian and Mexican dishes.

Through Wednesday, fresh & easy is talking with customers on Twitter and getting feedback about the new line.

In return for suggestions, photographs and tips, the market is selecting customers daily to win fresh & easy gift cards.

Just be sure to tag your Twitter or Instagram pic with #kitchentogo and @freshandeasy.

For more, follow fresh & easy on Twitter.

Red Lobster coming to Palm Desert

The New England coast will meet the low desert when the newest Red Lobster opens at 11 a.m. Monday (June 25) at 72291 Highway 111 in Palm Desert.

The 5,900 square-foot restaurant will create about 160 new jobs and accommodate seating for 212 guests.

The chain’s current special is the Four Course Seafood Feast for $14.99, which includes one of the restaurant’s soups, salad, unlimited Cheddar Bay Biscuits and choice of one of seven entres – including the new Jumbo Coconut and Pineapple-Grilled Shrimp – and a dessert.

The Four Course Seafood Feast is available through August 10.

The new restaurant also features a number of sustainable design elements, including recycled building materials, enlarged windows to increase natural light, LED lighting, low-water landscaping and energy-efficient equipment.

These enhancements are part of the Sustainable Restaurant Design initiative launched by Darden Restaurants, Red Lobster’s parent company.

Have dinner and a movie with Joe Baca tomorrow night

New Frontier Family Farms, 7556 Eucalyptus St., Ontario, will host a barbecue dinner and potluck at 5 p.m. tomorrow night (June 23).

Congressman Joe Baca is scheduled to attend.

The event will also feature a screening of the documentary “Fresh.”

Attendees are asked to bring a suggested donation of $5 and a potluck dish for 10 people.

To attend, please RSVP via email to Heather Fike or via the Facebook event page.

Tomorrow’s Fairplex food trucks announced

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Fairplex has announced the food trucks scheduled for this week’s Food Truck Thursdays (although a little bird told us one already).

Here they are:

The trucks will be parked from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday (June 21) in the lower administration parking lot in front of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum.

Parking and admission are free.

For more information, click here.

Concert to help celebrate 75 years of Mitla Cafe

In 1937, FDR was still in office. Amelia Earhart disappeared. The Golden Gate Bridge opened. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was born. The first cartoon featuring Daffy Duck debuted. World War II was still a few years away.

San Bernardino’s Mitla Cafe opened.

After 75 years in business, Mitla Cafe is definitely a restaurant survivor.

The restaurant, recently the location of an New York Times interview, is celebrating that milestone, beginning with a concert.

Performing June 30 at the restaurant will be Tower of Power guitarist Bruce Conte.

Opening for Conte will be Jazz Junkies.

Doors open at 5 p.m.

Tickets, $30, include dinner and are available only at the restaurant, 602 N. Mount Vernon Ave.

Another anniversary event is planned for September.

Farrell’s returning to Riverside

Back in its heyday, Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour had a location in Riverside, on Magnolia Avenue behind what was then Tyler Mall, a location which eventually became a Coco’s.

Today we discovered via Nancy Luna’s Fast Food Maven blog, that Farrell’s is returning to Riverside!

It’ll be just down the street from the old location, at 3610 Park Sierra Drive, in what used to be a Black Angus Steakhouse.

At 8,700 square feet, the new location will be the largest for the reborn chain.

The new location is projected to open in the fall.

Click here to read more from Fast Food Maven.

Update: Farrell’s is currently seeking management positions for the new location, and will begin taking applications for other locations beginning in late September or early October.

They are looking to hire more than 130 employees.

Finally, The Yum! Festival

We can’t believe its almost here.

The Yum! Festival, originally planned for what seems like an eternity ago, but was actually March 25, is finally happening on Saturday (June 23).

The event, which will bring a whopping 51scheduled trucks (including the I.E.’s My Delight Cupcakery and Where’s the Fire? Gourmet Pizza) to Ontario Mills, will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in a northwest mall parking lot, near Fuddruckers and Carl’s Jr.

The original date was rescheduled due to a forecasted thunderstorm that didn’t quite materialize. Tickets purchased for the original date were refunded.

If you won free admission from us (or from any other site), you’ll still be able get in free on Saturday.

Presale tickets are $5 (plus $1.27 service fee) and are available here.

Tickets will be $7 at the door. Kids four and under are admitted free.

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For the current list of scheduled trucks, head over the jump.
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