Chaya’s birthday, Cooks County and craft beer, PickleFest

Chaya’s 30th birthday: From Aug. 5 to 31, Chaya will be offering a special tasting menu by chef Shigefumi Taachibe, who opened the restaurant in 1984. The menu includes a tartare flight with hamachi with wasabi dashi, halibut with fresh truffle, and tuna tartare; a seared wagyu beef sukiyaki bowl; sea bream with clam sake broth; and green tea shaved ice. Available at dinner only, the meal is $60 per person. 8741 Alden Dr., Los Angeles, (310) 859-8833.

Cooks County Craft Beer: Each Tuesday from Aug. 6 to 27 and Sept. 10 to 24, a different craft brewery will be coming to Cooks County for a series of beer-centric dinners. Every dinner will consist of five courses, each one paired with a beer from the featured brewery. For example, the first dinner with Cismontaine Brewing Co. will be potato chips with a pilsner-cured salmon roe served with the Mesa, 75% pilsner and 25% Riesling; beer-battered fritto misto with The Citizen California Common; salad of melon, white shrimp and wild greens and Oxalis Sour Blond Ale; ale-soaked rabbit leg, lentils and house-cured pancetta with Coulter I.P.A.; and a tiramisu with beer — a Beeramisu — paired with Black’s Dawn Imperial Stout. After the Cismontaine Brewing Co. on Aug. 6, the following breweries will be Craftsman Brewing Co., The Bruery, Eagle Rock Brewery, Almanac Beer Co., Strand Brewing Co. and Ladyface Ale Co. The dinners will range from $45 to $50 per person. 8009 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 653-8009.

PickleFest: To celebrate the 19th year of the Beverly Hills Farmers Market, the market is hosting a pickle festival Aug. 4. Admission to the festival is free and includes a pickle toss, pony rides, a petting zoo, book signing by Kevin West of “Saving the Season” and Joseph Shuldiner of “Pure Vegan,” and a pickling contest. The contest will be divided into two categories -- Best Dill Pickle and “I Can Pickle That!” -- in which you can enter any pickled produce grown in California. (310) 285-6830.

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