SAN FRANCISCO – April 27, 2015 – KQED will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the popular local food show Check, Please! Bay Area at this year’s Check, Please! Bay Area Taste & Sip food and wine tasting, June 2, 2015 from 6:30-8:30pm at the San Francisco Design Center Galleria. To mark the milestone, the event will be the biggest to date featuring more than 40 restaurants.
“We’re celebrating this landmark season of Check, Please! Bay Area with our fans and a stellar lineup of chefs and wineries who represent the vibrant and diverse culinary community of the San Francisco Bay Area,” said Check, Please! Bay Area host Leslie Sbrocco.
Participating restaurants at this year’s event include: Bacon Bacon, Basque Cultural Center, Butterfly Restaurant, Capo’s, chiaroscuro, Chop Bar, Copita Tequileria y Comida, Davey Jones Deli: Inside the New Bait Shop, Della Santina’s Trattoria, DOSA, Dragon Rouge Restaurant, El Huarache Loco, El Metate Restaurant, encuentro, farmerbrown, Gamine, Hana Japanese Restaurant, Indigo Restaurant, La Costanera Restaurant, La Mediterranee Berkeley – San Francisco, La Ciccia, L’Ardoise Bistro, Le Charm Bistro, Lers Ros, Los Moles, M.Y. China, Mama’s on Washington Square, Marnee Thai Restaurant, Old Port Lobster Shack, Old Skool Café, Oliveto Restaurant and Café, Paradiso, Paulie’s Pickling, Pear Street Bistro, Pican, Poesia, Poggio Trattoria, Sapore Italiano Ristorante, Smoke Berkeley, The Fly Trap, Viognier Restaurant and Zatar Restaurant and Catering.
Wine vendors sampling include: Cairdean Vineyards, Giesen Wines, Iron Horse Vineyards, Jamieson Ranch Vineyards, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, McEvoy Ranch, New Zealand Winegrowers, Robert Oatley, The Hess Collection Winery and Wagner Family of Wine.
Check, Please! Bay Area host Leslie Sbrocco will be there with the production team and notable guests from 10 seasons of the series so festival attendees can meet their favorites and hear first-hand what it’s like to be on the show.
Check, Please! Bay Area is made possible by the generous support of Subaru, Integrated Resources Group, European Sleep Works, Oakland International Airport, Orion and CARS.
Tickets are $70 for KQED members and $80 for the general public and go on sale May 1 online at CityBoxOffice.com or by telephone at (415) 392-4400.
About Check, Please! Bay Area
Check, Please! Bay Area features guests and eateries as diverse the Bay Area itself. In each episode of the James Beard and Emmy Award-winning program, three local diners share their favorite spots and critique each others’ choices. They visit each restaurant anonymously – the restaurants are not notified that Check, Please! reviewers are present. After trying each others’ recommendations, the diners join host and moderator Leslie Sbrocco to discuss, dispute and celebrate their dining experiences with lively commentary.
About KQED
KQED serves the people of Northern California with a public-supported alternative to commercial media. Home to the most listened-to public radio station in the nation, one of the highest rated public television services, and a leader in interactive technology, KQED takes people of all ages on journeys of exploration—exposing them to new people, places and ideas. www.kqed.org
