BETHEL – Crab cakes, barbecue cups, lasagna roll ups and raspberry bread pudding are some of the culinary specialties being dished up at Saturday’s Taste of Bethel.
From noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6, nine Bethel area restaurateurs and two introduction to cooking classes of Telstar Regional High School students will offer portions of their delicious specialties for 75 cents a sample in the high school cafeteria on Route 26.
“In essence, one can attend and enjoy a premier smorgasbord of the best food in our region,” said Robin Zinchuk, executive director of the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce.
Chamber employee Rosalie Holliday said the highly-popular 2-hour event annually draws from 250 to 300 people, who are “mostly locals.”
Zinchuk said the event, a pre-holiday tradition, gives Bethel area restaurants the chance to “strut their stuff.”
Besides two booths featuring students of Telstar’s cooking classes, other participants are Saturday’s Cantina of the Sunday River Ski Resort, S.S. Milton, The Good Food Store, L’Auberge Bistro, Sunday River Brewing Co., Sudbury Inn, Cho Sun Restaurant, Bethel’s Best, and the Bethel Inn and Country Club. Of the restaurants, Cho Sun, S.S. Milton (formerly Mother’s, now under new ownership), Bethel’s Best and L’Auberge Bistro are newcomers, Holliday said.
In addition to the mouth-watering morsels, people will have a chance to bid on decorated wreaths provided by Bethel area businesses. Known as the Theme Wreath Auction, the silent auction will be ongoing from noon to 2 p.m. High bidders will be announced shortly after 2 p.m.
Holliday said that as of Wednesday afternoon, the Chamber had received 23 wreaths and more were coming in.
The auction and the Taste of Bethel are “good fund-raisers,” she added. Money raised from the food-tasting event goes toward scholarships for culinary arts students at Telstar High School. Auction money helps the Chamber buy Christmas decorations to hang around town.
Telstar Regional High School is one mile south of Bethel village on Route 26.
For more information, call the chamber at 824-2282.
tkarkos@sunjournal.com
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