A Succulent Pork Tenderloin--and One Brewsky, Please!

The Fullerton Hofbrau is offering an interesting twist on the wine dinner this Sunday, with dishes prepared to accompany its own micro-brewed beers.

Chef Horst Voelsing will prepare Scottish smoked salmon with a creamed horseradish sauce, served with a summer brew, Hefe-Weizen. Following is a pork tenderloin brushed with a beer mustard sauce and green peppercorns, accompanied by Earl’s Ale.

Dinner begins with appetizers at 5:30. The price, $38 a person, includes tax and tip. Reservations are recommended.

323 N. State College Blvd. (714) 870-7400.

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Andreino DeSantis, who served as a chef for President Reagan’s 1986 inauguration in Washington, will make a five-course Italian dinner for the Robert Mondavi Wine & Food Center on Wednesday.

The main course is veal with mushrooms and spring vegetables, served with Pinot Noir reserve. Dessert is mixed fruit in Moscato wine and “cappuccino Andreino.”

The price is $125, tax and tip included, and dinner begins at 7:30.

1570 Scenic Ave., Costa Mesa. (714) 979-4510.

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Garden Bistro will play host to Fetzer Winery on Saturday for a four-course dinner accompanied by the vineyard’s wines. The menu includes baked eggplant with angel hair pasta, served with 1991 Pinot Noir. A bay shrimp Caesar salad follows, then pepper steak with asparagus and a 1990 Cabernet Sauvignon. Apple cinnamon blintzes with 1989 black Muscat are for dessert.

The dinner begins with a reception at 7. The price is $65 a person, plus tax and tip.

In the Crystal Court shopping center, 3333 Bear St., Costa Mesa. (714) 546-6004.

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Light drinkers and those who like to sample wines might want to check out the Sunset Grille & Bar, where they’re serving wine by the half-glass. The “flight size” glasses, as the restaurant labels them, are priced at half the cost of regular glasses (which generally run $4.75 to $6.25).

34150 Coast Highway, Dana Point. (714) 661-5220.