Whole Hog Dinners, 2012

Tuesday, February 7, through Friday, February 10
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Our thirteenth annual Whole Hog event will soon be here. Over the past twelve years Oliveto’s Whole Hog dinners have become a spectacular array of pork preparations, a delicious extravaganza, but also somewhat excessive, and in recent years much copied and well…very 2007. So Chef Jonah’s decision to [...]

St. Valentine’s Day 2012 Dinner Menu

Five-course special menu. $85 per person. Wine pairings available. SEE MENU

Convergence

DINNER FOR NEW TUSCAN OLIVE OIL––OLIO NUOVO––AND PANEL DISCUSSION ON OLIVE OIL WITH OLIVE OIL PRODUCER ROBERTO STUCCHI, AUTHOR TOM MUELLER, AND HOST MAGGIE BLYTH KLEIN

Saturday, January 14, 2012
Discussion: 4:30 Dinner: 5:30 throughout evening
Athena smiled on us when the schedules of two internationally known olive oil experts enabled us to invite [...]

New Year’s Eve at Oliveto

The panini tartufati of Procacci, Florence’s beautiful old food shop, are little brioche sandwiches filled with truffle butter. This became the starting point from which Chef Jonah began to devise a menu. To the panini he added risotto alla Milanese, and, of course, if you’re going to serve risotto alla milanese, then you’ve got to serve osso buco….

Dinner With Patricia Wells

Saturday, November 12, 2011
World-famous cookbook author and expert on French cooking Patricia Wells will be dining at Oliveto at 6:30 on Saturday, November 12, 2011, as she celebrates her latest book, Simply Truffles. A precursor to our own white truffle dinners, which will commence on November 16th and continue through the 19th, the dinner [...]

2011 Truffle Report #2

Aldo Vacca from Produttori del Barbaresco was taught that proper truffle shaving meant completely covering the dish. Here he demonstrates. This was a block-buster truffle. We ‘re at Trattoria Antica Torre in Barbaresco, famous for their hand-cut tajarin, that is made with only flour and egg yolks….

First Truffle Report for 2011

Oliveto co-owner Bob Klein and General Manager Shane Walker depart in less than a week for Italy in pursuit of truffles for our upcoming dinners. We’ve already heard some preliminary reports about the start of the season from a few of our contacts. Bad news first: Our friend Aldo Vacca in the Piedmont says…

Truffle Dinners 2011

Wednesday, November 16th through Saturday, November 19th
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We first got the idea of going to Italy to obtain the truffles for our truffle dinners sixteen years ago, after a shipment of specially selected truffles with Oliveto’s name and address on it got lost in Heathrow Airport. Although the truffles [...]

Look Who’s Coming To Dinner: Randall Grahm

Monday, September 19th

Last year, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Bonny Doon’s Le Cigare Volant, Randall Grahm’s great Rhone Valley blend that has contributed so much to California’s wine palette. More importantly, we celebrated Randall’s newest adventure–his latest efforts in reinventing the way he makes wine.
Here’s some background on what he’s up to.
As for [...]

Menu for Late-Season Tomato Dinners 2011

The second of two dinners to celebrate the range of the 2011 tomato season. This is Oliveto’s 22nd annual Tomato Dinner. Tuesday, Sept. 13 – Friday, Sept. 16…