Legacy Village the destination for dinner, chili this month

Put Legacy Village on your menu for Legacy Village Restaurant Week 2018, running April 9 through 15.

At the Lyndhurst shopping complex, five restaurants will offer three-course prix-fixe dinner menus at $25 per person. The price is $38 at The Capital Grille, however.

Also participating are Bar Louie, Brio Coastal Bar + Kitchen, California Pizza Kitchen, Granite City Food & Brewery and The Melting Pot. The prix-fixe menu pricing does not include gratuity or tax, and full menus of all participating restaurants are always available.

Each participant also receives an entry to a drawing for a prize package that includes a $50 gift card to each of the six restaurants. Entry forms also have a coupon redeemable for free valet parking before May 15.

Get details at legacy-village. com.

ChiliFest at Legacy, too

Legacy Village in Lyndhurst hosts the fourth annual Beasts n’ Brews ChiliFest & Bluegrass Festival, presented April 29 by North Union Farmers Market.

Admission is $5 to the 1-to-5 p.m. competition among restaurants and farmers throughout the area.

Taste among the various chili concoctions and then cast your vote to choose the best chili in Cuyahoga County. Last year’s competition resulted in a tie between Doug Katz from Fire Food & Drink and Mickey Venditti of Zest Cleveland Catering.

While choosing your chili, taste plenty of craft brews or cocktails by Watershed Distillery.

Bubble making and a pedal tractor maze are a few or the attractions making this a family-friendly day. Dance the afternoon away to the music from three bluegrass bands.

Details: northunionfarmersmarket.org or legacy-village.com.

Duck demystified

Discover how tasty and unusual duck can be in a demonstration class at 6 p.m. April 13 with chef Tim McCoy at the Loretta Paganini School of Cooking, 8613 Mayfield Road, Chester Township.

Learn the method for creating terrines and sauces, procedures for pureed soups, pate a choux and pastry cream, as well as techniques for pan-roasting duck breast.

Menu for the 2.5-hour class includes duck terrine with pistachios, red currant preserves and baguette crisps; carrot-ginger soup with duck cracklings; frisee salad with duck confit, shaved green apples and maple mustard vinaigrette; roasted duck breast with dried cherry and pinot noir reductions sauce; roasted fingerling potatoes and Brussels sprouts; and chocolate eclairs with orange-scented pastry cream.

It’s $65 with registration available at 440-729-1110 or lpscinc. com.

Taste of Mentor

Mark your calendar for April 25 — that’s when the Taste of Mentor takes place in a new location — Noah’s Event Venue, 8200 Norton Parkway.

Participating restaurants include Billy’s Martini Bar, Chickfil-A, Fourk, Great Harvest Bread Co., Moe’s Southwest Grill, J’s Pizza Market, Marion’s Mediterranean Restaurant, Noosa Bistro, Euclid Fish Co., Pastina Rustic Italian Restaurant, Melt Bar and Grilled, Longo’s/Cater to You, Confectionary Cupboard and Verdi’s Italian Foods.

The event is sponsored by the Mentor Chamber of Commerce. Tickets, at $30 per person, include two drink tickets.

Details: tasteofmentor.com; 440-255-1616.