Wine Dinners; Online Shopping for Produce

EVENT PLANNING- Swirl Wine still has a few spots available for their Italian wine dinner at Vegas Tapas on Thursday, August 16, at 6:30 p.m. The dinner is $80 per person including tax and tip. [Eater Wire]

BORGNE AGAIN- Not in the mood for Italian? Borgne is having a wine dinner tomorrow, August 15, with Louisiana cuisine and an "undercurrent of Spanish flavor." Cost is $65, starts at 6:30 p.m. [Gambit]

HAPPY HOUR- "Our signature drink is the Onetini, which has the meat of an orange, ginger, mint, lime juice, simple syrup, Absolut Citron and a touch of Prosecco splashed on top of that," Lee McCollough, owner of ONE in the Riverbend, told the Gambit today. half-priced signature cocktails and appetizers are offered during happy hour 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Monday through Thursday. [Gambit]

FARM MOUSE CLIQUE-The Times Pic reports that Louisiana Market Maker, a little known website, "merges Internet-age shopping habits with the traditional approach of buying your daily dinner fixings straight from the fishmonger or tomato grower." Consumers can search a database of over 1500 fisherman and farmers offering goods to choose from. [TP]