February 17, 2015 – Edible Monterey Bay is excited to invite all of our readers to two parties in March—one at Jacks Lounge at the Portola Hotel & Spa in Monterey and the other at Soif Restaurant and Wine Merchants in Santa Cruz.
Both parties will celebrate the release of our new Spring 2015 issue as well the winners of our 2015 Local Heroes Awards, which we’ll disclose in the new edition!
First up is the party at Jacks on Thursday, March 12 from 4–7pm. Guests will be treated to complimentary small bites from Jacks’ new happy hour menu, which includes Pacific Cod Ceviche, Risotto Fritters, Roasted Garlic & Meyer Lemon Hummus, Corned Beef Sliders and Soy Marinated Beef Skewers with Korean-style Green Onion Slaw.
Jacks, which is located at 2 Portola Plaza in Monterey’s historic downtown district, will also offer drinks at its regular low happy hour prices of $3 for bottled beer, $4 for house wines and well drinks and $6 for barrel-aged cocktails.
To enter a drawing for dinner for four at Jacks as well as a few other prizes, RSVP here by March 9 at midnight.
Meanwhile on Friday, March 13, Soif will open its doors to Edible readers for a similar party from 5-7pm. Watch this newsletter, our blog, Facebook and Twitter feeds for more. Soif is located at 105 Walnut St. in the center of Santa Cruz. RSVP here by March 9 at midnight to enter prize drawing.
About the author
SARAH WOOD—founding editor and publisher of Edible Monterey Bay—has had a life-long passion for food, cooking, people and our planet.
She planted her first organic garden and cared for her first chicken when she was in elementary school in a farming region of Upstate New York.
Wood spent the early part of her career based in Ottawa, Canada, working in international development and international education. After considering culinary school, she opted to pursue her loves for writing, learning about the world and helping make it a better place by obtaining a fellowship and an MA in Journalism from New York University.
While working for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, she wrote stories that helped farmers fend off development and won a state-wide public service award from the New Jersey Press Association for an investigative series of articles about a slumlord who had hoodwinked ratings agencies and investment banks into propping him up with some early commercial mortgage securitizations. The series led Wood to spend several years in financial journalism, most recently, as editor-in-chief of the leading magazine covering the U.S. hedge-fund industry.
Wood now lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she is a freelance writer and manages communications for Samaritan Ministry, an antipoverty and antiracist nonprofit that provides struggling Greater Washington residents with highly personalized and compassionate life counseling and coaching.
