DATEBOOK

TODAY

Sushi Demo: Learn to make California rolls, salmon rolls, vegetarian rolls, tuna rolls, hand rolls and nigiri rolls. 7 p.m. Whole Foods Market in the Rolling Hills Plaza, 2655 Pacific Coast Highway, Torrance. (310) 257-8700. $10.

FRIDAY

Beer Dinner: American Home Brewers judge Charles Hiigel details the beers poured at this reception and five-course meal. Dishes include beer-braised bratwurst with German potato salad and sauerkraut and veal cutlet with a mushroom and brandy demiglace. Beers include a Bohemian Spaten Pilsner, a Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest and a Schneider Aventinus Weizenbock. 6:30 p.m. Eric’s Restaurant & Bar, in the Clarion Palm Garden Hotel, 495 N. Ventu Park Road, Thousand Oaks. (805) 716-4100. $59 prepaid.

SATURDAY

Chinese Moon Festival: Lion dance troupes, lantern parades, moon viewings and moon cakes characterize this Chinese festival celebrating that big white orb. Phoenix Bakery demonstrates how to make the moon pastries filled with lotus-seed paste, mashed red beans, nuts and/or a salty egg yolk at 3 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The Moon Festival runs 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and begins at the New Chinatown Gateway at Caesar E. Chavez Avenue and Broadway in Chinatown. L.A. moon-cake demonstrations and other activities take place at Historic Central Plaza, 943 N. Broadway, L.A. For information call (213) 680-0243 or visit https://www.chinatownla.com. Free. Also Sunday, 2 to 9 p.m.

SUNDAY

A Liquid Lunch: Tour the San Antonio Winery in downtown L.A., try the wines and eat lunch at Maddalena restaurant. Noon. San Antonio Winery, 737 Lamar St., L.A. (323) 223-1401. Make reservations through The Flask Liquor, (818) 761-5373. $27 pre-paid.

A Day With Lawyers: If spending an entire afternoon with young lawyers appeals to you, try this fund-raising event for the Beverly Hills Bar Assn. Barristers. It’s a wine, beer and food-tasting event with restaurants such as Delmonico’s Seafood Grille, Encounter Restaurant, Il Fornaio, Jer-ne, The Knitting Factory, Lawry’s The Prime Rib and McCormick & Schmick’s. 1 to 5 p.m. The courtyard of Greystone Mansion, 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills. Call Knock-Out Productions for tickets, (818) 986-7990. $65.

Bonny Doon Dinner: Six Bonny Doon wines are poured with hors d’oeuvres, jumbo prawns, spinach salad, filet of beef stuffed with sun-dried tomatoes and an apple tart by Chez Melange. 7 p.m. The California Room, the Palos Verdes Inn, 1716 S. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach. (310) 540-1222. For reservations, call the restaurant or the catering office, (310) 316-1566. $75.

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