Cactus restaurant in Kailua is holding a “Tequila and Farmer’s Dinner” on Thursday featuring Jessica Escobar of Karma Tequila and Tristan Reynolds of Hawaiian Fresh Farms.
Chef Thomas Borges and guest chef Bob McGee of Link Handcrafted Meats are preparing a six-course meal based on the ingredients they will gather just before the event.
The dinner is $115, with drink pairings available for $25. If six courses are too many, diners may order the courses a la carte.
Two seatings are available, at 5 and 7:30 p.m., and reservations are required. Call 261-1000.
TV series will feature island farm
Hawaii’s own MA‘O Organic Farms will get some screen time 9 p.m. Tuesday on KHET when the PBS series “Off the Menu: Asian America” visits Oahu to see how local folks are working to make our food system sustainable.
The road trip-style documentary by filmmaker Grace Lee explores the Asian-American experience through food. Other stops include Houston, home of “the sushi king of Texas” and the inventor of tofu tamales; Manhattan, N.Y.’s Lower East Side, where Jonathan Wu cooks food based on his upbringing and his French culinary training; and Milwaukee, at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, site of a 2012 shooting, where cooking is a means for the community to heal.
The show repeats 7:30 p.m. Dec. 25 and 10 p.m. Dec. 26.
Halekulani chef to cook Indian feast
Start off the new year with a culinary bang: Get a seat at chef Vikram Garg’s Indian street food dinner 6 p.m. Jan. 31 at the Halekulani. The meal is a fundraiser for the Hawaii Culinary Education Foundation.
On the menu: samosa, pakoda, uttapam, kathi kebab, meen curry, pork vindaloo, daal makhani, naan, kulfi and gulab jamun.
Price is $185, which includes wine, gratuity and valet parking. To make reservations, visit indianstreetfoodadventure.eventbrite.com.
For information, email hawaiiculinaryfoundation@gmail.com.
