The Week In Eats

Get Out!

by Nikki Volpicelli

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Chef Joe Palombo of Mirabella Café is teaming up with holistic nutritionist Tammy Hughel to promote healthy cooking with a three-course tasting. The hands-on class will feature a simple salad with heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers and lemon-olive oil dressing; broccoli rabe; whole wheat linguine with fresh vegetables; and chocolate-covered strawberries for dessert. Students are encouraged to bring a bottle of wine; all recipes will be available in take-home format so you can replicate them for the fam. Reservations recommended. Mirabella Café, 210 Route 70 East, Cherry Hill, N.J., 856-354-1888, mirabellacafe.com.

Each year, Chestnut Hill College and the Northwest Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network, a nonprofit devoted to providing food and shelter to the region's homeless, team up to put food in our bellies. Sample food from participants — Adobe Café, McMenamin's, Cafette, White Dog Café and Solaris Grille, to name a few — in hand-crafted clay bowls you get to take home. All of the night's proceeds go to NPIH, which raised more than $10,000 at last year's event. Sorgenti Arena, Chestnut Hill College, 9601 Germantown Ave., 215-247-4663, chc.edu.

Pop's Playground, a new skate park in Kensington, is an example of what can happen when a community comes together to back a positive project. But with the renovation of the park comes expenses, which pile up for donation-driven projects like this. That's why orgs like the New Kensington Community Development Corp. and Franklin's Paine are taking action with this hungry man's fundraiser. Roast beef, ziti, meatballs and salad will be provided by Primo Pizza with additional catering services from Peggie's Pantry. Beer will be provided by Philadelphia Brewing Co. (there'll also be a full cash bar). All proceeds benefit Pop's. Call or go online for tickets. VFW Post 22, Frankford Avenue and Sergeant Street, 215-668-3340 or 267-746-9428, popsplayground.org.

Join executive chef Matthew Levin and sommelier Eric Simonis for this four-course hunter's delight dinner at Lacroix. A 2007 St. Urbans-Hof Riesling will be paired with a Scottish hare terrine, followed by partridge paired with "Cuvee des Ardoises" from Chateau des Erles. Wild boar belly will be served with cabbage, raisins, sage and a Bonarda from Argentina. The coup de gras: a citrus crêpe with Obtuse from Paso Robles, Calif. Call for reservations. Lacroix, Rittenhouse Hotel, 210 W. Rittenhouse Square, 215-790-2533, lacroixrestaurant.com.