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Operation Food Search has a way of working to fight hunger via lavish fundraising dinners that make you drool just hearing about them. "Operation Dine Original," happening Monday, Oct. 17, at Moulin, features chefs from more than 30 of the "St. Louis Originals" restaurants plating up the pride of their kitchens to benefit OFS, which collects food for those of us who could use a little help.
Have a gander at a partial menu for the soiree:
-House Specialty Cocktails from Absolutli Goosed
-Peanut Butter Cheesecake with Hot Fudge Glaze, plus Pumpkin Sponge Cake with Rum-Laced Whipped Cream from Cravings
-Pâte Maison, Eggplant and Manchego Bruschetta from Duff's
-Marsala-Braised Rabbit with Ricotta Gnocchi from Eleven Eleven Mississippi
-Duck Confit Crepes from Herbie's Vintage '72
-Pasta Station featuring Goat Cheese Ravioli with Vodka Tomato Cream Sauce, plus Crostini and Bread Sticks from LoRusso's Cucina
-Lemongrass Shrimp Banh Mi from Monarch
-Pulled Pork Pizza with House BBQ Sauce, Caramelized Onions, and Cole Slaw from PW Pizza
-Chicken Parmesan from Ricardo's
-Mini Pumpkin Ice Cream Cakes from Serendipity
-Shrimp & Grits from Square One Brewery
-Slow-Braised Pork Ragu with Bucatini Pasta and Shaved Parmesan from SqWires
-Hickory-Smoked Beef Brisket with Spoon Bread, Apple BBQ Sauce, and Horseradish Slaw from Sunset 44
-Seafood-Stuffed Mushrooms from Three Monkeys
-Escargot and Puff Pastry with Mushrooms and Parsley Cream from Vin de Set
-Arancini plus Eggplant Caponata Crostini from Vito's
-Lobster Mac & Cheese, plus Sliced Duck Breast with Bing Cherry Port Wine Demiglace from Wild Horse Grill
If you have not already started, you may now commence with the drooling.
Operation Dine Original also features an open bar, 12 wine vendors tasting almost 100 different wines, eight local beer vendors tasting over 50 different beers, and the obligatory silent auction.
Go here for tickets, priced at $75.
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Another Operation Food Search event is smaller in scale but should be just as special. Celebrated food-truck vendor and underground-event Chef John Perkins is parking Entre Mobile at OFS HQ (6282 Olive Boulevard in U. City) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15.
He says his lunch menu for the day includes the Entre Burger, which is "80 percent beef and 20 percent bacon, served with caramelized onions and dill pickles" (and optional additional bacon and cheddar); elote, or Mexican street corn featuring Mexican crema, cotija (hard cheese), and a chili blend with lime-zest salt; and a beer-braised hot dog finished on the grill with fried onions, peperonata, house-made pickles, apple mustard, and spicy aioli.
Perkins wants you to know he'll take a buck off each item you order for any donated canned goods, and that all are welcome to take free tours of OFS, too.
He also wants you to know that Entre Mobile has been doing a brisk business outside the newly opened Perennial Artisan Ales, and later that night he'll be offering the same menu at Perennial (8125 Michigan in the Carondolet neighborhood), with the additions of chicken and squash tamales; another kind of elote featuring corn off-the-cob, fried onions, and fried eggs; poutine with cider gravy; and s'mores made from spiced shortbread, Mexican chocolate, and smoked marshmallows.
I think we like you, Chef Perkins. We like you lots.
Call 314-726-5355, ext. 23 for more info on Operation Food Search or these events. Or click here.
