I talked to one of the managers at the Saucer last night, and wrote down the menu for the beer dinner next Friday, July 23. Here it is:
First course: Cioppino (seafood soup)
Second course: Mozzarella, proscuitto and melon salad
Third course: Lasagna
Fourth course: Young’s Double Chocolate Stout ice cream float
Each course will be paired with a beer, and there will be four bonus beers. A cicerone (whatever that is) will lead everyone through the dinner, telling you how to taste the beer to bring out the flavor in the food. As I’ve said before, if you’re still skeptical whether beer can really be paired with food, you need to give this a try. They usually provide paper so you can write down what you thought of each beer.
Here’s a link to Wikipedia’s article on cioppino, for those who have never heard of it before. I had it at Bardog one time, and it is delicious.
The fourth course is like a root beer float, except without the “root.” Ice cream in beer. Chocolate-flavored beer.
Tickets are $35 if you’re a member of their UFO Club, $40 if not. They’re limiting attendance to 50, and the manager told me last night that ticket sales are already in the 20s. If you want a ticket, just go to the Saucer and ask your server, bartender or manager.