We're Deeply Suspicious of LA's First Food & Wine Week

September 19, 2011 at 2:37 PM | by Omri | Comments (0)

It's no secret that we have a love/hate relationship with Restaurant Week-style events. Sometimes the food travel events are opportunties to score great meals at great prices. Other times they're an excuse for people like these douchebags to pretend that the lemon chicken they're eating and the wine they're overpaying for are the height of bourgeois sophistication. As Dennis Miller once famously said about drug use, the problem isn't the drugs themselves but the people you have to do them around.

So consider us somewhat skeptical about the Los Angeles Food & Wine week, due to launch October 13-16. A joint initiative sponsored by the likes of American Express Dining and Lexus Automobiles, the project involves dozens of gastronomic events sprinkled with "talent"—their word, not ours—drawn from the world of famous chefs and sommeliers. Feel free to browse all of the events here.

You can buy tickets to the events individually, starting with a $2,000 Founders' Dinner at a private residence in Bel Air. If that seems a little too forced—or way too expensive—you have the option of going the other direction and purchasing "VIP Access - HEAT - LA's Spiciest After Party" for $350.00. Or if you're not into the club scene, there are events like the $500 "Daniel Boulud - Tribute To A Culinary Master" or the $100 "Caviar, Bacon & Bubbles With [our old friend] Master Sommelier Andrea Robinson."

So no matter what kind of BMW you drive to compensate for your dead soul or what kind of unfulfilled office romance you fantasize about to get through your interminable suburban existence, there's an event made specially for you.

That said, we're honestly we're kind of intrigued by how the program has more than 15,000 fans for their Facebook page. Either somebody hired a really good social media firm, or there's something we're just plain missing about the attraction.

[Photo: LA Food and Wine]

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