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Where: Coffee Bar, 1890 Bryant (at Mariposa), 551-8100

When: Thu., April 14; seatings at 6 and 8 p.m.

Cost: $35 for three courses; optional $15 wine pairing

The rundown: "Why is Lauren Kiino cooking dinners at Coffee Bar?" SFoodie once asked. Answer: Kiino lives near Coffee Bar, and the monthly pop-ups give her a chance to stretch out, with dishes more intricate than the ones we love at beautifully rustic Il Cane Rosso. That's good enough for us.

Menu highlights: slow-roasted spring lamb with farro, fennel, and green olive salad; English pea risotto with Crescenza and sorrel; pistachio financier with poached rhubarb and crème anglaise

Reservations: e-mail info@canerossosf.com, indicating number of guests and first and second choice of seatings

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See ya, Roger.

Where: "Somewhere different and unique" according to the event listing; exact location to be revealed via Twitter or e-mail

When: Sat., April 2, 6-11(ish) p.m.

Cost: $37 at the door, $33 in advance

The rundown: Roger Feely's packing up the Volvo and getting out of town. For weeks, fans of Soul Cocina and Feely's other food ventures have been waiting for word from the daddy of especially vivid street food about whether he'd join his family in Chicago or stay on in S.F. Today, they have their answer ― Feely's circulating word of Saturday's "Last Supper," a farewell pop-up at a yet-to-be disclosed location. "The menu will be Indian," Feely writes, "mostly vegan with a chicken curry option for you knuckleheads that simply can't do without your meat."

Menu highlights: crispy fried green garbanzos with Soul masala and tamarind popcorn ($4); bhel puri ($5); pessaratu with plantain flower curry and gunpowder podi ($14); ube gulab jamun ($6)

Tickets via Eventbrite, or RSVP on Facebook

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Off the Grid returns to Fort Mason Center. See Fri., Mar. 18.

Off the Grid Ft. Mason Center Returns
Ft. Mason Center, Marina Blvd (at Buchanan), 5-10 p.m.
New truck additions, tent vendors, and alcohol purveyors (Magnolia Pub and the Alembic), as well as most of your favorites from last year, make their return to this crowd favorite. Complete description here.

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Where: Zaré at Fly Trap, 606 Folsom (at Second St.), 243-0580

When: Sun.-Tues., Mar. 20-22, 6:30 p.m.

Cost: $85; $35 for optional wine pairing

The rundown: Between St. Patty's Day and Purim, we hope you didn't forget that Persian New Year is right around the corner. That's right, Nowrouz (aka Norooz or Nowruz) coincides with the arrival of spring, and Zaré at Fly Trap is unrolling its annual upscale dinners to help you celebrate the arrival of year 2570. Owner/chef Hoss Zaré has prepared an elaborate multicourse menu to help you usher in the new light of the vernal equinox. Of course if you prefer to celebrate with "banging house music," then you have options, but Zaré has the subdued musical stylings of Farzad to help you digest a veritable Persian feast. You know where we'll be.

Menu highlights: Ash anar (pomegranate soup with french lentils and duck meatballs); mirza ghasami (stuffed zucchini with elephant garlic, tomato, and quail egg); abgusht (lamb with potato, garbanzo, tomato, and a roasted garlic-preserved lime broth); baklava with Persian cream, salt, rose preserves, and pistachios

House Kombucha

Scallop crudo.

Where: House Kombucha, 498 Natoma (at Sixth St.)

When: Sat., Mar. 19, 7-10 p.m.

Cost: $48

The rundown: At the intersection of live cultures and cultural experience, the earnest apostles at House Kombucha are teaming up with the arty foodsters of Oakland's Canvas Underground for a dinner you never you knew you wanted. With eyebrow-raisers like kombucha bacon with green tea soba noodles; tomatillo and avocado soup with white tea/orange blossom kombucha; and scallop crudo with beet tartare and a kombucha-serrano chile mignonette, this event begs the question: Are you ready to trip the light kombucha?

RSVP at Eventbrite

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Kenney Cottage Garden.

Where: eVe, 1960 University (at Bonita), Berkeley, 510-868-0735

When: Sun., Mar. 20, 6 p.m.

Cost: $40 ($10 goes to Kenney Cottage Garden)

The rundown: Picture the farmer, gazing out on acres of ripe vegetables as a handful of moist, nutrient-rich dirt sifts through her fingers. Pretty image, no? We think that's what the creators of Berkeley's Dirt Dinner Series were picturing when they came up with the name ― anyway, that's a nicer image than a plateful of potting soil. This Sunday marks eVe's second Dirt Dinner, a six-part series that sources each meal from a different community garden. The dinners are simple, natural affairs, served communally to ensure you make new friends. This month's menu highlighting Kenney Cottage Garden includes garden salad; broccoli soup; braised pork shoulder; peas with leek and onions; glazed beets with pecans and orange; and citrus, honey, and ricotta pie. Gardeners from Kenney Cottage will be on hand to discuss their produce, their mission, and (we're guessing) their dirt. Ten dollars from your dinner goes directly back to the garden.

To reserve a spot, call 510-868-0735.

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Where: Tartine Bakery, 600 Guerrero (at 18th St.) 487-2600

When: Tues., Mar. 22, 8 p.m.

Cost: $35

The rundown: Think back to high school. If you're anything like SFoodie, the hippest people with the swankest soirees were always a bit out of reach. Wouldn't everything have been easier if your social life had been determined by lottery? At the upcoming Tartine Bakery Afterhours, Times-certified cool kid Samin Nosrat of Pop-Up General Store fame teams up with the Tartine posse for a chic dinner party you might actually get invited to. For this three-course family-style meal in the bakery's cozy confines, invitees will be picked randomly out of a hat. And if you're one of the chosen, it won't matter whether you're a nerdster or a fashionista (as long as you have $35 and an appetite). This is what democracy looks like.

For your chance to attend, send an e-mail to tartine.afterhours@gmail.com with your name, contact information, and number of people in your party. You'll hear back if you're chosen.

Eating About Beer

Where: CommonWealth Café and Public House, 2882 Telegraph (at 29th St.), Oakland, 510-663-3001

When: Sun., Mar. 13, 7:30 p.m.

Cost: $50 for six courses, including homebrew pairings

The rundown: Do the members of the homebrew alliance that calls itself Eating About Beer pair food with beer or the other way round? Might as well try to tease out the chicken-and-egg conundrum. For its third drink-and-chew event, EAB's planned a winter menu with an apparently seamless connection between liquid and solid. Note: Show up at Commonwealth restaurant in San Francisco on Mar. 13 and you'll be SOL; this CommonWealth's in Oakland. Set your GPS tracker accordingly.

Menu highlights: Umeboshi onigiri and marinated daikon; butter-poached lobster with Sichuan lemon-pepper gastrique; beer--braised duck leg with potato-celery root purée; bananas foster brulée

Tickets at Eventbrite

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Where: La Victoria Mexican Bakery and Café, 2937 24th St. (at Alabama), 642-7120

When: Fri., Mar. 18, seatings at 6:15 and 9 p.m.

Cost: $60 for five courses; BYOB

The rundown: Pop-up chef and Whole Beast impresario Kevin Bunnell turns all anthro-folk in his description of this month's ears-to-cottontail prix fixe at La Victoria: "Around the world, the rabbit has been honored and idolized as a symbol of abundance and sometimes as a trickster spirit, using only cunning and speed to escape its prey." Though, let's face it ― the bunnies Bunnell's turning into offal stew and sugo for pappardelle promise to be more about abundance than escape. Right?

Menu highlights: Offal Stew with yellow eye beans, black turnips, and rapini; fried shoulder with black mustard and carrot puree; braised leg pappardelle with roasted baby artichokes; carrot sponge with fennel-thyme Bavarian

Tickets via Eventbrite

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Where: Outerlands, 4001 Judah (at 45th Ave.), 661-6140

When: Mon., Mar. 21, 6 and 9 p.m.

Cost: $60, cash only

The rundown: When does spring start around here? Hard to say, when 70° days in February give way to 40° ones in March, and street trees in full-on pink flower are stripped bare by pinging hailstorms. One undeniable measure is the spring equinox, which rolls around on Mar. 21 whatever the weather happens to be. Another vernal threshold: spring menus, like the beautiful one Cooking with Leif's Leif Hedendal has planned for his vegetarian pop-up at Outerlands the night the season turns.

Menu highlights: Dave's levain toasts with Bellwether sheeps'-milk ricotta and black trumpet mushrooms; soup of Knoll green garlic, English peas, stinging nettle, dulse, sencha, and matsutake dashi; Little City Gardens magic mesclun with icicle radishes, blood orange, and argan; rhubarb-fennel galette with honey, lemon thyme, and crème fraiche

RSVP to cavolonero@gmail.com with seating preference and number of guests