Tickets available for open house, wine-tasting event

• By TOMMY C. SIMMONS
• Advocate food editor
• Published: Nov 5, 2009

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DENHAM SPRINGS — Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday for the annual Holiday Chef’s Evening & Wine Tasting set for Dec. 3 in the Antique District of Denham Springs.

Only 300 tickets for the event are available. In past years, the tickets were sold out on the first day.

Pat Genre, of Main Street Denham Springs, the merchants’ association and Main Street development organization that sponsors the Holiday Chef’s Evening & Wine Tasting, said several new restaurants are participating this year. Wine will be provided by Republic National Distributing Co., she added.

The event is actually an evening open house in the shops along Range Avenue in the Antique District in Denham Springs. Restaurants pair with the shops to offer tastings of their specialties for guests to sample while they browse and sip wine. The open house is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Restaurants and caterers participating include: K&L Caterine, Cambre’s Kitchen, Don’s Seafood Hut, Chili’s Bar & Grill, Cocodries Restaurant, Longhorn Steakhouse, DeAngelo’s, Raising Cane’s, Hooters, Lagrange’s, Desserts First, Crazy Bout Crawfish, Cook ‘n’ Cajun, La Carettas, Lashish Greek and Lebanese Restaurant, Taste of LA Café, Lagniappe Seafood and Steak and Fernando’s Mexican Grill.

Tickets are available through advance sales only and will be sold at Taste of LA Café, 105 N. Range Ave. in Denham Springs. Cost is $25 per person. Dress is party casual. Proceeds benefit Main Street Denham Springs.