[title type="h3"]Virtual Summer Mediterranean Cruise, Vega Tapas Cafe.[/title]
Vega Tapas Cafe is back on its annual summer Tour Of The Mediterranean. It's the seventeenth year for this eight-week-long odyssey through all the major cuisines along the shores of the Med. Great idea, since all those places--despite their tremendous cultural and geographical differences--have many flavors in common. Each menu consists of four tapas-size courses and a specialty cocktail for $35.
The logical cruise begins this week in Israel. Next week, it moves to Greece. Here's the rest of the schedule:
[title type="h5"]July 20: Morocco
July 27: Italy
Aug 3: Egypt
Aug 10: France
Aug 17: Tunisia
Aug 24: Spain[/title]
All the special menus are offered at dinner Monday through Saturday. Paired wines are available at a reasonable price. I don't know whether they're stamping special "passports" to show how many of the dinners you attended.
Although there's been a change in owners since last year's Med cruise, chef Will Sampson is still in the kitchen, and the good eating has not been interrupted.
Old Metairie: 2051 Metairie Rd. 504-836-2007. www.vegatapascafe.com.
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