Guests spend their Saturday afternoon sampling food and drinks on stage at Sarasota Opera
By
Heather Merriman Saba
| 9:39 p.m. September 19, 2015
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Sarasota Opera hosted its 2nd annual A Taste of Downtown Food & Wine Festival on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Sarasota Opera. Guests enjoyed menu samplings from over 20 downtown restaurants along with beer and wine pairings from Gold Coast Eagle and HSW Spirits.
Destiny Beckham and Sarah Macrae
Dori Copeland, Ann Zeilman and Ryan Frymire
Bill and Patti Eckmann with Ray and Beverly Broth
Blue Rooster’s oven baked macaroni and cheese with white cheddar and smoked Gouda cheese
Current’s Ahi tuna poke over wakame salad with crispy wonton
Crepes Suzette
Rolando Garcci, Alyssa Nohren, Kathy and Dan Hoque and Dana Gaddis
Mary Harper, Nancy Wieland, Jill Caruso and Veletta Tusa
Winston Baugh, Lissette Eckert, Maxcine Baugh, Kim and Joe Peters and Darrell Eckert
John and Cheryl DeMatteo
Neal and Vanessa Finelli with Debbie Allen and Bernadette Gottschalk
Blue Rooster’s oven baked macaroni and cheese with white cheddar and smoked Gouda cheese
Mozaic’s Belgian dark chocolate Moelleux with passion fruit sorbet and black currant coulis
Mattison’s braised pork short rib on turnip mash
Louies Modern’s Kung POW chicken lolli-pops
Roast’s avocado, prawn and crab salad with Marie rose dressing
H20 Bistro’s seafood bouillabaisse
Mimi and John Greco
Lori Hagey, Shauna Malgieri, Barbara Curic, Lindsey Young, Sammi Calabrese and Sarah Wertheimer
Lea Mei, Jennifer Rust and Amanda Pileggi
Wood Powell, jenny Thomas and Eric Zampol
Amy Warren, Kelley Beall, Julie Chambers, Marcia Dove and Marcia Hoodwin
