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Hills’ Brewers’ Dinner a can’t-miss

By Lorie Hutson lorieh@spokesman.com(509) 459-5446

Wine dinners abound, but perhaps beer is more your style.

Make time to check out one of chef Dave Hill’s recurring Brewers’ Dinners at Hills’ Restaurant. The dinners predate the restaurant’s current location at 401 W. Main Ave., but cooking in a new kitchen makes it more fun for him now, Hill says.

For each event, Hill creates a menu to complement the offerings from a featured brewery. On Tuesday, the restaurant will feature brews from North Coast Brewing of Fort Bragg, Calif., alongside five courses.

The menu looks like this: prosciutto-wrapped asparagus with Scrimshaw Pilsner hollandaise, served with the Scrimshaw Pilsner; smoked chicken and portobello soup with Red Seal croutons, served with Red Seal Ale; and fried goat cheese salad with mixed greens and Acme Pale Ale vinaigrette, paired with Acme Pale Ale.

The entree is braised beef short ribs served with baked potato and Old Rasputin butter, served with Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. Top it off with a poached pear, handmade ice cream with Old Stock chocolate sauce, served with (what else?) Old Stock Ale, an old ale with 11.7 percent alcohol by volume.

The dinner is $45 and begins at 7 p.m. To reserve a seat call the restaurant at (509) 747-3946.

You can also get on their mailing list to find out about future dinners. The Web site is www.hillsrestaurantandlounge.com.

Wild salmon lunch

If keeping wild salmon on your plate is your concern, this meal is for you.

Author, fly fisher and conservationist David James Duncan will speak about wild salmon at the Spokane Club at noon on April 15.

Duncan, author of “The River Why” and “The Brothers K,” will talk about the value of the Snake River watershed to wild salmon populations, and opportunities to build alliances among fishermen, farmers, chefs and consumers to help restore wild salmon to the Columbia and Snake rivers.

He’s also one of the featured authors at the Get Lit! literary festival, and will speak the next day at Spokane Community College as part of SCC’s President’s Speakers Series. There is more information about that event at http://sites.scc.spokane.edu/ Speakers/.

Lunch at the Spokane Club is $20 and is sponsored by Save Our Wild Salmon.

It is open to the public.

Make reservations by calling or e-mailing Sam Mace, sam@wildsalmon.org or (509) 747-2030. Checks for lunch should be made out to Save Our Wild Salmon and mailed to 35 W. Main Ave, #200, Spokane, WA 99201.