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Pasadena Greek Festival returns to Santa Anita Park

Leave your bags behind and take a quick trip to Arcadia from Sept. 16 to 18 for a taste of Grecian culture with the return of the Pasadena Greek Festival.  The weekend will include entertainment from the “Olympians,” visual art, … Continue reading

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Carmela expands its ‘adult’ flavors with splashes of wine

Carmela Ice Cream has paired up with wine retailer Domaine547 to create summer sorbets sure to please wine drinkers.  In its collaboration, the frozen dessert shop created two new flavors using Raventos i Blanc Sparkling Cava (Spain) and Caluna Malbec … Continue reading

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Your guide to Bring Your Own Wine Wednesdays in Pasadena

Through August 31, participating restaurants in Pasadena are offering corkage-free Wednesdays. The Bring Your Own Wine (BYOW) Wednesdays program is sponsored by the Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau, and it aims to drum up dine-in business for local eateries on … Continue reading

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Pasadena wine tasting to feature hundreds of pinot noirs

The Pasadena PinotFest is getting better with age. Wine-guy-about-town Mike Farwell and his partners from Noir Food & Wine are taking their third annual wine festival to new heights this year, with a capstone Grand Public Tasting to be held … Continue reading

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The Royce restaurant at The Langham debuts tonight

Tweet After an extensive renovation, The Langham Huntington’s former Dining Room opens tonight as The Royce, with celebrated chef David Fau heading up the kitchen. True to his roots, Fau’s inaugural menu (click to view, at left) is full of … Continue reading

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2 Foothill cities, 2 wine and jazz benefits, this Saturday only

Tweet And there’s no reason to miss either free-flowing, beat-filled soiree. Organizers of the Pasadena Wine Festival will offer free admission to anyone who shows a ticket for the nearby Sierra Madre Wine and Jazz Walk benefiting City of Hope. … Continue reading

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Nose Diving: French ros winemakers seeking foothold in U.S. market

To find a local constituency fluent in the language of ros wines, one need look no further than a gathering of French food professionals. And Club Culinaire, which earlier this summer put on its Picnic des Chefs to raise money … Continue reading

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Nose Diving: TastingRoom’s tiny wine bottles have big tech behind them

In an operations center near the Sonoma County Airport, highly sensitive liquids are handled in a meticulous process that prevents their contamination. Exacting scientific standards require the most unpolluted environment possible: a semiconductor clean room, devoid of oxygen, into which … Continue reading

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You’re invited: Join Rose Magazine, along with the Star-News and Pasadena POPS, for a very special kick-off event

More details here. See you there!

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Nose Diving: It’s a wine world (after all) at Disney’s California Food & Wine Festival

Nose Diving is a feature column, in which a novice wine writer fumbles toward grace. My feet are dangling freely as we coast, hang-glider style, over the vast expanse of California below us. It’s a gloriously sunny day as we … Continue reading

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