Beer, Food, & Music! What else can you ask for?

With the new year its always great to shake things up a bit, and what better way to do it than with some of our favorite indulgences, beer, food, and music. The 7 course beer tasting party was a thrill and a pleasure to have all those of you who came over.

After getting ready all day our diet consisted of popcorn and whatever else we could get our spare hands on.

Waiting for the arrivals.

The setup this time was meant to be more interactive, casual, a party where you had home-cooked food with well-sourced high quality ingredients, diversity in beer styles, and great tunes that set the tone for the party from Dj Angel.

Kevin worked really hard on the menu design and it looked amazing!

1. Salt cod ravioli with a fish fumét paired with Telegraph White Ale
2. Chilpachol soup paired with Deschutes Winter Ale
3. Cochinita pibil tacos paired with Alpine Willy Ale
4. Vietnamese fried egg rolls paired with Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale
5. Shanghainese Berkshire pork belly paired with Jolly Pumpkin Maracaibo Brown Ale
6. Brillat Savarin, home-made biscotti, blood orange & pomegranate compote paired with Dogfish Head Midas Touch
7. Chocolate Earl Grey tartlets & lemon mascarpone paired with Stone Vertical Epic 9.9.9

A little Genmai Cha before the madness begins.

Jeff from Ballast Point whom always supports our events with beer. This time we had a 15g of Calico and the crowd pleaser, Sculpin IPA. I asked Farra at around 7 for a pint of it and she came back saying "its gone", of course!

Cochinita pibil's steam coming out. Cochinita pibil is usually cooked underground, but due to not wanting to dig a hole in my backyard I opted for the more conventional aproach, the oven.

Beer geeks in deep conversation. Hey did you try the Maracaibo brown ale? I know huh, its amazing. Rock on!

One of my favorite things of the night was seeing people with their forks & spoons in their shirt pockets or jean pockets. Its like the skull and bones of food.

Vietnamese fried egg roll wrapped around red leaf lettuce.

Shanghainese style Berkshire pork belly with home-made Napa cabbage kimchee.

Since we are sooooo sophisticated, why not implement the French cheese course before dessert?

Chocolate Earl Grey tartlets in their beauty.

Ethan, the certified master pourer.

Thanks to DJ Angel for complimenting the mood with his hand picked songs. We had everything from Sergio Mendes, to psychedlic Chilean music, to Santana, to Rick James, and a plethora of lounge music.

Our lovely ladies.

Dance party, well a mini mini one that is.

Obviously this is not a food pic, but gotta love the color scheme. Hmm, who could that be?

Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support. It is a true honor and pleasure for us to be able to host you and create an intimate and unique La Mesita experience. Many thanks to Jeff from Ballast Point, DJ Angel, Ethan, Laurel our impromptu photographer, and to our La Mesita group. The next one will be a different one of its kind, brunch anyone?

Special thanks to Omar at "The Best Damned Beer Shop". For those of you who drive up to Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido for those hard to find bottles, drive no more. Check these guys out in downtown and tell them we sent you.