We Painted The Town…
Okay not quite. But we did go and enjoy the charity event at Vinings Gallery - in fact, we made it quite a nice date night out for us on a Saturday.
We started our night at the bar at South City Kitchen in Vinings. We knew the event was supplying appetizers, but not knowing what that meant we didn’t want to go hungry - and why not make a full evening of it. I enjoyed a delicious champagne, but unfortunately the wine menu isn’t online so I can’t tell you what it was - I liked it so much though I had two glasses. I really enjoy starting a night with champagne instead of ending with champagne, and it was meant to be as you will read later in this post.
We sampled some delicious appetizers - my favorite being the Farmstead Gouda Fritters - wow did those melt in my mouth. And we decided to throw a dessert in at the end and really enjoyed the double chocolate bread pudding. I enjoy South City Kitchen and their wine selection for a nice dinner out.
After our dessert we headed over to the gallery. The night was filled with looking at art, drinking wine and talking to other couples and it was very nice. The silent auction didn’t really interest us although than one piece of art by Joline Pol, but we weren’t really willing to go high enough. There were a couple of things in the live auction that interested us, and this is the one thing about the night that really … was unfortunate. The guy on the mic is the owner of Melting Pot, having taken it on from his dad - and we started bidding on one of the items (a magnum bottle of Revana signed by Heidi Barrett) and while our first couple of bids are taken, someone else is outbidding us. Who apparently is friends with the guy on the mic - and so he says to them - I’ll throw in this bottle of such and such if you just give me $x right now. Um, excuse me? Is that how an auction is supposed to go? They never even looked at us again - I was somewhat… upset. However, I guess it was karma that instead of paying lots of money for something mainly because it was for charity - I had bought a $10 glass of champagne that came with a raffle ticket and I won! Jewelry! And I’m very excited to go pick it out - a wonderful Atlanta designed called Mickey Lynn.
All in all, we had a great time and I recommend the event for next year. We’ll probably go again, just with more realistic expectations of the live auction.
Oh and while I don’t know which wine it was, we were drinking a La Crema Pinot Noir that was wonderful - we have some in our cellar as well so I’ll open one up soon to compare.
This weekend we are headed to see the Duttons and will try really hard to take notes on what we drink, so we can post here.
Have a great weekend,
Kelly
PS On Amelia’s blog, I did a post about what would I do with 12 hours in Atlanta, a question asked of his readers by The Amateur Gourmet - check it out!