Join Taste Catering's Executive Chef  Chris Borges for a delicious three course dinner featuring their newly unveiled "Taste" tomato, and highlighting the bounty of summer at the farmers market. This flavorfull nightshade is a combination of the Maglia Rosa and Zucchero varieties bred by Baia Nicchia Farm & Nursery and designed to meet size and taste qualities favored by Borges.

Baia Nicchia Farm & Nursery is located within the The Sunol Water Temple AgPark, a mutual interest of Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE) and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Guests will mingle with chef Borges and tomato breeder Niccia over hors d'oeuvres, and go on to enjoy a three course meal, served family style in a long row down the cellar of Macy's in Union Square. The meal is prepared and served by Taste Catering, and all ticket sales benefit CUESA.

Full details of the mouth-watering menu are below:

Passed Hors d’oeuvres
Taste Tomato, Almond, & Sumac Salad in Cucumber Cup

Mini Corn Tacos with a brunoise of Taste Tomatoes, Haas Avocados and Yellow Corn Relish

Pepper Crusted Ahi Tuna with Taste Tomato Puttanesca on Caramelized Onion Flat Bread

Lamb and Taste Tomato Picadillo Empanadas with a Yogurt Mint Dipping Sauce

First Course

Blood Mary Summer  Salad of  Taste Tomatoes, Poached Celery, Horseradish Leaf Salsa Verde, Garlic

Chips, Vodka Vinaigrette, Mature Padron Peppers

Bread Basket of  Taste Tomato Focaccini Rolls, Flatbread, Breadsticks, Taste Tomato Romesco, Singer

Olive Oil, Straus Butter

Family Style Entrée

Marin Sun Farms Top Sirloin with Sauce Bordelaise, Taste Tomato Chutney

Taste Tomato, Toybox Squash, Squash Blossom and Chevre Tart

‘BLT’ – Taste Tomatoes, Bacon and Erbette Chard Gnafron

Stewed Kentucky Wonder Beans, Taste Tomato Confit with House Golden Cayenne Vinegar

Dessert
Taste Tomato Napoleon

Pan Roasted Taste Tomato ‘a jus’

Crispy Honey Phyllo, Burata, Taste Tomato Jam,

Sicilian Pistachio