OFSCA Fundraiser: A Culinary & Libation Journey through the East Bay

Join us to support small/local/minority owned restaurants, wineries and breweries for a date night treat from the comfort and safety of your own home on Tuesday, March 16, 2021!

The Oakland Fukuoka Sister City Association (OFSCA) is teaming up with alaMar Kitchen & Bar/Sobre Mesa and Côte West Winery for a digital event featuring their food and wines and also raise funds for their upcoming sister city 60th anniversary.

Dine in with us on March 16, 2021, with a prepared meal kit (serves 2) to finish at home and enjoy legendary wines while watching Chef Nelson German demonstrate our meal and winemaker Bret Hogan discuss his wines via a one-hour Zoom virtual webinar devoted to the chef and winery.

Chef Nelson German will be a contestant on Top Chef: Portland (Season 18), premiering in April!

EVENT DATE: Tuesday March 16, 2021 from 4-5pm Pacific (Zoom link will be sent to all registered attendees)

DEADLINE TO RESERVE: Thursday March 11, 2021

PICKUP DATE/LOCATION (Meal Kit & Wine): You may pick up your meal kit and wine orders on Sunday, March 14, 2021 at alaMar Kitchen, 100 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA between 3-7 pm.

**Please note: while pickup of the food & drink takes place on Sunday 3/14, the chef event takes place on Tuesday 3/16.

MEAL KIT: The meal kit for two features PERI PERI CHICKEN with roasted jerk casava, sweet plantains, and braised greens. This dish can be easily prepared within 30 minutes. All elements are prepped and sometimes pre-cooked to cut down on cooking time. The chef will demo how to cook the meal on the webinar, and you may follow along from your own kitchen.

We regret that a vegetarian/vegan option is not available for this special event. No substitutions can be made in this prepared meal kit.

TICKET OPTIONS:

• $100 – 1 alaMar meal kit (serves 2) and webinar access
• $130 – 1 alaMar meal kit (serves 2), webinar access, and one bottle of Côte West wine (either Chardonnay or Grenache - see details below)
• $155 – 1 Alamar meal kit (serves 2), webinar access, and two bottles of Côte West wine (one each of Chardonnay and Grenache)

MEAL HIGHLIGHTS:

alaMar/Sobre Mesa: The chef will provide us with a Meal Kit for two people of PeriPeri chicken, sweet plantains and braised greens. The meal showcases Afro Latino Cuisine and the deep history and ties to Africa by utilizing ingredients that were brought from Africa, incorporating Latin Flavors.) The chef will demo step by step how to prepare the meal. Attendees are encouraged to cook along in the kitchen with the meal kit in front of them.

Côte West Wines: If you would like to add wine to your meal experience, you may choose either or both of the following vintages:

• 2016 La Cruz Sonoma Coast Chardonnay: Medium body, pleasant acidity, and notes of green apple, citrus, and caramel.
• 2019 Mounts Dry Creek Valley Grenache: Ripe raspberries and velvety notes of strawberry, with a touch of white pepper. Soft tannins.

Questions: Contact us at ofsca1962@gmail.com, www.oakland-fukuoka.org.

Featured Presenters

About Chef Nelson German

Top Chef: Portland (Season 18) Contestant

Chef Nelson shares the story of his culinary journey through his cooking. Born and bred in uptown Manhattan’s Washington Heights, in Uptown Manhattan, German worked countless hours in New York City restaurants, including Joseph's Citarella and Gramercy Park Hotel.

He spent time studying the art of simple Mediterranean cuisine through his travels to Spain, France and Italy. He learned local, seasonal, sustainable California cuisine at SupperClub SF.

AlaMar, a Michelin-recommended seafood spot in Oakland, marked the first venture born from German's love and passion for creating art with his food. His talents have garnered rave reviews from San Francisco Chronicle and Oakland magazine and earned him spots at the prestigious Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival and Chefsfeed Indie Week Portland. He was also commissioned to showcase California Cuisine in Mexico City by Visit California.

German’s successful bar program at alaMar spurred a passion for creating art from cocktails and stoked a desire to bring something unique, vibrant and beautiful to his chosen home of Oakland. So, as an ode to his Latin American roots, German opened the Afro-Latino cocktail bar, Sobre Mesa, in March 2020. The term Sobre Mesa (literally “on the table”) refers to what you do after your meal, when drinks continue and meaningful conversation begins.

Sobre Mesa was forced to close as a result of San Francisco Bay Area’s strict shelter-in-place order just two weeks after opening. When Sobre Mesa reopens in early 2021, German expects it to be an even more personal and multi-dimensional experience, with private cooking classes, weekly food & cocktail pairings and outdoor dining.

About Bret Hogan

Côte West is a family-run urban winery based in Oakland, California. We seek out special vineyard sites and use minimal intervention in the winery to highlight the unique characteristics of our sources. The result is Old World-style yet undeniably Californian wines.

Bret Hogan is the co-founder and winemaker. Growing up in Carmel Valley, he developed an early appreciation for the natural beauty of the California landscape. He received a Masters degree in Viticulture & Enology from UC Davis and got his hands dirty interning at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in Napa and Domaine des Comtes Lafon in Meursault Burgundy. Upon returning from France, he set out to combine that tradition-steeped approach with his training at Davis in order to create Old World-style yet undeniably Californian wines.