CULINARY CALENDAR

Consiglio’s Cooking Demonstration and Dinner: Thursday and Sept. 28, 6:30 p.m., Consiglio’s Restaurant, 165 Wooster St., New Haven, 203-865-4489, $65 (beverages, tax and gratuity not included, reservations required). Preparation of a four-course meal is demonstrated. Each course is shown, step by step, and then served. Learn how to make one of Consiglio’s trademark dishes: Cannelloni filled with seasoned ricotta and meat, spinach salad with prosciutto with chianti vinaigrette, steak pizzaiola, blueberry cobbler vanilla gelato.

Mushroom Farm to Table Wine Dinner: Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Chatfield Hollow Farm, 10 Firetower Road, Killingworth, 860-591-WINE, bit.ly/2wfKM2Z, $125. Wine Institute of New England welcomes autumn with a farm-to-table wine dinner inspired by the mushrooms and other fresh edibles of Chatfield Hollow Farm. A cocktail reception will kick off a 4-course dinner, with each course expertly paired with wine by director Renée Allen.

Consiglio’s Murder Mystery Dinner: “The Ides of September”: Sept. 29, doors at 6 p.m., dinner and show at 7, Consiglio’s Restaurant, 165 Wooster St., New Haven, 203-865-4489, bit.ly/2cyB02Y, $55 includes dinner and show (beverages, tax and gratuity not included). An interactive comedy show that goes on as you enjoy a three-course dinner. The cast mingles from table to table, dropping clues for a mystery only you can solve. Two rival actors and their spouses are here for the big casting announcement. Will someone kill for the part?

Brats & Beer Cruise: Oct. 5, 5:15 p.m., Essex Steam Train & River Boat, 1 Railroad Ave., Essex, 860-767-0103, 21 and over, bit.ly/2gNIjWE, $60 advance/$70 walk-up (pending availability). Beer, bratwurst and beautiful fall foliage on the Connecticut River. Tastings of carefully selected craft beers and ride the Becky Thatcher Riverboat on the Connecticut River.

Fall Food and Wine on the Shoreline Dinner: Oct. 19, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Guilford Mooring, 505 Whitfield St., Guilford, 203-458-2921, bit.ly/2xDbxyJ, $65 per person, not including tax & tip ($5 from each ticket will benefit Relay for Life of the Shoreline, American Cancer Society). Hosted by Guilford’s Dave “The Wine Guy” Brause, the event will feature a five-course meal, each paired with a wine or cocktail.

A Day of Wine & Roses presented by The North Haven Rotary Club of CT: Sept. 24, 1 p.m., Forget Me Not Flower Shop, 39 State St., North Haven, bit.ly/2x7hIt7, $35 in advance, $40 at door. Food tastings from many local restaurants, wine tasting, musical entertainment as well as raffle items and a silent auction.