B&B Ristorante Farmers Dinner; Lagasse's Stadium Dinner

VENETIAN — B&B Ristorante throws its final summer dinner this Thursday at 7 p.m. featuring local farmers. The menu includes an heirloom melon salad with sorrel, ricotta salata and basil chili vinaigrette; farm egg tagliolini with summer squash and herb pesto; rabbit "porchetta" with sweet potato puree; and apple and pear "calzone" with oatmeal cinnamon gelato. [EaterWire]

NORTH LAS VEGAS — El Pollo Loco opened its 18th location at 1985 N. Martin Luther King Blvd. today. [EaterWire]

PALAZZO — Lagasse's Stadium has a beer-pairing dinner with Samuel Adams on Friday Sept. 12, at 6 p.m. The menu is priced at $55 per person and includes an organic arugula, sliced Fuji apple and duck confit salad paired with Samuel Adams Angry Orchard Crisp Apple; a crab and sweet corn chowder with toasted crostini paired with Samuel Adams Harvest Saison; herb-crusted salmon on Andouille sausage and shrimp jambalaya paired with Glaze Samuel Adams Boston Lager; grilled pork loin on braised Southern greens paired with Samuel Adams Oktoberfest; and pumpkin cheesecake with vanilla ice cream paired with Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale. For reservations, call 702-607-2665. [EaterWire]
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