• Durham's Four Square Restaurant is celebrating its ninth anniversary with a wine dinner to benefit the Nasher Museum of Art. At 6 p.m. Sunday, they will be serving four courses, from duck with pears to roasted rack of lamb, for $125 plus tax and gratuity. For more information, see www.foursquarerestaurant.com or to make a reservation, call 919-401-9877.
• Chapel Hill's Lantern is teaming up with Chapel Hill Creamery and Italian winemaker Alberto Cordero di Montezemolo to offer a five-course Italian menu at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8. The menu includes Braeburn Farm beef braised in Barbera with Anson Mills polenta. The cost is $120, excluding tax and gratuity. For information, see lanternrestaurant.com. To make a reservation, call 919-969-8846.
• Raleigh's Zely & Ritz is hosting a five-course dinner featuring ales from Big Boss Brewery and brewmaster Brad Wynn at 7 p.m. Oct. 15. Diners will be served such items as steamed middleneck clams and king mackerel gravlax for $65 per person plus tax and gratuity. To learn more about the event, see www.zelyandritz.com. To make a reservation, call 919-828-0018.

Fall wine show

Weaver Street Market Cooperative is hosting its Fifth Annual Fall Wine show starting this weekend.

The wine tastings are:

• 1 p.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, at the Carrboro store.
• 1 p.m.-5 p.m., Oct. 11 at the Southern Village store.
• 1 p.m.-5 p.m., Oct. 18 at the Hillsborough store.

Tickets for the tastings cost $5. The wines also are available for sale at a discount of up to 50 percent.

The events raise money for the cooperative's community fund, which gives annually to local groups focused on sustainable agriculture, organic food, hunger, social issues, environmental protection and cooperatives.

Finger foods

Cary cooking instructor Sandra Gutierrez is teaching a class called "Finger Foods of the Americas" at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at A Southern Season in Chapel Hill. The menu includes beef flautas with roasted tomato sauce and mini-Cuban pork sandwiches with ham, pickles and mojo mayonnaise. The class costs $50.

To register, go to www.southernseason.com or call 877-929-7133.

Pumpkin festival

The Carrboro Farmers' Market is ending this season's Wednesday markets with a pumpkin festival.

On Oct. 15, the regular farmers' market will feature pumpkin painting, children's activities on the green and Lantern chef Andrea Reusing cooking in the gazebo. It lasts from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

For information, go to www.carrborofarmersmarket.com.

Andrea Weigl

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