Upcoming food and drink events to keep an eye on

Eat Drink SLC spillover events

While the big foodie fest, EDSLC, sold out within days of the main ticket release, the organisers have a few ancillary events – featuring wineries headed to the state – in the week ahead. Here’s the scheduled slate for their Savor The Week programming:

St. Bernard’s @ solitude
September 13th, 6.00 p.m
Wine pairing dinner with Kelsey La Derriere of French Libations.
$170 food and wine
Tickets

East Liberty Tap House
September 15th, 6.00 – 9.00 p.m.
Offering Browne Family Vineyards pairings and flights  

Franck’s
September 15th, 6.00 p.m.
Five-course prix fixe with Lorenza wines
$135 food and wine
Tickets

Post Office Place
September 15th, 5.00 – 7.00 p.m.
Pouring exclusive Willamette Valley wines

Salt Lake Culinary Education
September 18th, 6.00 – 9.00 p.m.
Communal Brands wine and cheese pairings 

Brownstone 22 (pictured)
September 18th
Wine dinner featuring Turley Wine Cellars 

Mountain Beer Festival

This popular Deer Valley beer fest returns for 2026 with another two-day run. The event kicks off with a formal Brewmaster dinner as follows:

September 18th, 6.00 – 9.00 p.m.
$180
Tickets

Held at Silver Lake Lodge this “exclusive evening features a five-course dinner prepared by Deer Valley’s renowned chefs, with each course paired with a craft beer from one of the top five breweries, as voted by attendees at last year’s Mountain Beer Festival. Surrounded by the Wasatch Mountains and accompanied by live acoustic music, it’s the perfect way to begin a weekend of exceptional food and craft beer.”

September 19th and 20th, noon – 5.00 p.m.
$10 – $155
Tickets

The festival proper offers attendees “the chance to sample sips from more than 20 Utah breweries and cideries on The Lawn of Silver Lake Lodge. The two-day event will also feature scenic chairlift access, expanded family activities with a dedicated Kids Zone, dining options from Silver Lake Restaurant and new offerings from Deer Valley Creamery, Slopeside Sweets, and the Brined & Battered Nashville Chicken Trailer, guest shopping experiences, and live entertainment with headliners Dylan Catrone on Sept. 19, and G. Love & Special Sauce on Sept. 20. “

Hidden Ace whiskey pairing dinner

September 25th, 6.30 p.m.
Six-course prix fixe
$100
Tickets

Held at the Hailstone Terrace at Deer Valley’s new(ish) Grand Hyatt, the menu for this High West-focused pairing is as follows:

• Trio of citrus crudo
  • High West Double Rye
• Living harvest salad
  • High West Campfire
• Salt‑Baked Snapper, whole snapper baked in a sea‑salt crust, carved tableside
  • High West Bourbon
• Lemon & basil sorbetto
  • Interactive martini experience
• Juniper‑crusted venison loin
  • High West Rendezvous Rye
• High West Barrel house chocolate experience
  • A Midwinter Night’s Dram

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Stuart Melling

Hi, I’m Stuart, nice to meet you!  I’m the founder, writer and wrangler at Gastronomic SLC.  I’m a multiple-award winning journalist and have written in myopic detail about the Salt Lake City  dining scene for the better part of seventeen years.

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