{"id":1748,"date":"2016-09-23T00:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T00:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/food\/music-tastes-good-s-epic-farm-to-table-dinner-menu-announced-get-ready-to-drool\/"},"modified":"2016-09-23T00:05:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T00:05:54","slug":"music-tastes-good-s-epic-farm-to-table-dinner-menu-announced-get-ready-to-drool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/music-tastes-good-s-epic-farm-to-table-dinner-menu-announced-get-ready-to-drool","title":{"rendered":"Prepare to Drool: Music Tastes Good’s ‘Epic’ Farm-to-Table Dinner Menu Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"MTG\"The much-anticipated menu for just one of the components of the Music Tastes Good Festival has been released, offering some sweet and savory dishes to test and ultimately satisfy your palate during the festival\u2019s unique dining experience on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Officially called the \u201cFarm-to-Taste Experience,\u201d Saturday\u2019s farm-to-table dinner will be held on the second night of the three-day festival in downtown Long Beach, specifically at the Latin-inspired gastro-pub Padre\u2019s Restaurant.<\/p>\n

The meals will feature locally-sourced food prepared by six top Long Beach chefs who will team up with guest chefs of their choice, according to longtime Long Beach resident and event organizer Josh Fischel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lola\u2019s Luis Navarro said he wanted to bring a powerhouse from Mexico City, so he reached out to his friend and private chef Diego Isunza Kahlo, who is also the great-grandnephew of legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe come with a very long working history together,\u201d Navarro said of Kahlo. \u201cI\u2019m very fortunate to call him my friend and when this opportunity came across I couldn\u2019t think of anyone better than him to showcase [the food].\u201d<\/p>\n

For Navarro, taking part in the dining experience was a no-brainer. He saw it a way to highlight Long Beach as not only Los Angeles\u2019 sister or sister-in-law, but also solidify Long Beach as a food destination.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just felt that with our experience, Long Beach always gets overlooked, so whenever it comes to media, food coverage, even the restaurants through our retail boutique, we always get overlooked,\u201d Navarro noted.<\/p>\n

It seems as if Long Beach is a bit too far north from Orange County and just a little too far south for Los Angeles County, Navarro remarked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to flex our muscle and really trying to flex and showcase this is Long Beach,\u201d Navarro said. \u201cWe are Long Beach, these are our ties, these are our friends who we cook with on our down time and it stretches further than LA, further than San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to organizers, guests of the \u201ccasual outdoor urban dinner experience\u201d will not only get to experience six amazing courses, but they will do so with chef interaction, beverage pairings with Greenbar Distillery using its small batch, organic liquors and liqueurs, and special guest DJ sets from DJ Maseo of De La Soul and Andres Renteria, who is the drummer for Jose Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

Check out the menu and the chefs that will prepare the tasty concoctions below:<\/p>\n