13th Annual Alagasco Corks & Chefs: Food & Wine Tasting Event

This highly anticipated food & wine extravaganza, now in its 12th year, is the only ticketed event at the 25th Annual ONB Magic City Art Connection contemporary art festival, held April 25-26, 2009 in Linn Park. Corks & Chefs provides a tented environment for patrons to enjoy 8 artful dishes each day that were created especially for the food & wine event by some of Birmingham’s finest restaurants & chefs, all partners of the Birmingham Originals. In addition, Corks & Chefs features over 100 unique wines from around the world to sample as well as sit-down Wine Tasting Seminars conducted by knowledgeable wine experts. Favorite culinary features in 2007 included Hot and Hot Fish Club's Hot and Hot Shrimp & Grits; Daniel George's Braised Chicken Tamales with Cilantro Cream and Black Bean Relish; Standard Bistro's Wild King Salmon Cake with Cucumber Salad, Red Onion, Capers, Lemon & Dill; Homewood Gourmet's Braised Lamb with Tapenade White Beans; Sol Y Luna's Roasted Corn and Pork Tamal with Pinto and Black Bean Sauce; V. Richard's Mediterranean Seafood Salad; Icon Restaurant & Bar’s Passion Fruit and Tamarind Marinated Flank Steak Sushi; Continental Bakery’s Warm Bread Pudding with Bourbon Hard Sauce and Whipped Cream; Little Savannah's Gulf Shrimp Ceviche and Local Green Tomato Pico de Gallo; Chef Clayton's Black Eye Pea Risotto with Shitake Mushrooms, Zeigler Smoked Bacon with Parmesan Bread Crisp; Ocean's Tomato Butter Glazed Shrimp and Sweet Corn Pudding; Nabeel's Cafe & Market's Grilled Shrimp Penne Pasta; Catering by LaNetta’s Kenya Coconut Chicken with Steamed Rice Flatbread, City Hall Diner’s Ravioli with Crawfish & Andoille Sausage, or Nonna’s Roasted Portabella Stack, Fresh Mozzarella Sweet Bells, Chiffonade of Basil Drizzled as a Balsamic Infusion. TICKETS CAN BE ORDERED in March/April by phone @ 205-595-6306 or through the MCAC website @ www.MagicCityArt.com. We recommend pre-ordering your tickets for 2009, as Corks & Chefs has become a very popular event and it holds only a limited amount of door tickets. Tickets are $25 Advance / $30 at the door.