The Stockton Conference & Visitors Bureau is looking for restaurants to participate in a city-wide promotion of fine cuisine, culinary diversity and simply great food. Restaurants across Stockton’s dining scene will come together for what has become one of Stockton’s most anticipated culinary events, Stockton Restaurant Week, to be held September 19-25, 2010. During Stockton’s second annual week-long event, participating restaurants will offer special three-course menus that will showcase so...
full story

This Valentine’s weekend – Saturday, Feb. 13, and Sunday, Feb. 14 – is also the date of the annual Wine & Chocolate Weekend in Lodi. Once an experimental promotion by Lodi’s few existing wineries 13 years ago, Wine & Chocolate has grown just as the wine-producing industry has taken off. At least 40 Lodi Wine Country venues are part of this year’s local vintage tasting and sampling weekend. The weekend event, set for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, typically draws 3,000 to 3,200 attendees from th...
full story