NVOH Announces Dinner is Served 2010 Benefit, Held 2/25/2010

The Napa Valley Opera House League is pleased to announce its tenth annual Dinner is Served fundraiser on February 25, 2010. For one special evening, more than 45 restaurants throughout Napa Valley and beyond will offer a value-priced dining experience, including tax, tip, corkage and a donation to the Napa Valley Opera House.

Each participating restaurant will serve a three-or-more-course meal. Many plan special menus for Dinner is Served and some include wine pairings. There are six price points from $50 to $500 per person. The price includes tax and tip, and corkage fees are waived. A portion of every ticket may be tax-deductible.

Participating restaurants include:

$500
The French Laundry (Chef's Tasting Menu)

$200
Auberge du Soleil, La Toque (Tasting Menu with Wine pairing), The Restaurant at Meadowood (Wine Pairing)

$150
Bottega, Cole's Chop House, Etoile at Domaine Chandon, Farm at the Carneros Inn, Martini House, Redd

$125
Arnold Palmer's (Palm Desert)

$100
ad hoc, Angèle - Bistro Jeanty  Bouchon  Brix - Celadon  Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen  Cuvée ESTATE (Sonoma)  Go Fish  Hurley's  Kokkari Estiatorio (S.F.) Lark Creek Steak (S.F)  Mustards Grill One Market Restaurant (S.F.)  the girl & the fig (Sonoma)  Ubuntu  Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant at the CIA  Zinsvalley

$75
Allegria  Annaliên  BarBers Q Bounty Hunter Wine Bar & Smokin' BBQ  Fumé Bistro & Bar.  Market Neela's  Pearl  Rutherford Grill  Siena at the Meritage Resort and Spa  The Grill at Silverado Uva Trattoria Italiana  ZuZu

$50
Azzurro Pizzeria & Enoteca  Compadres Rio Grille

TICKETING POLICIES: To give participants a chance to check out the options and make up parties, please review the Dinner is Served website at www.nvoh.org/DIS. Participants are encouraged to print out the order form and fax or mail it before seats officially go on sale on December 4. Restaurants with more requests for reservations than seats available will be allocated on the morning of December 4. Larger orders are given priority over smaller ones. Therefore participants are encouraged to make the event a party by signing up for all the seats a restaurant has offered. Ties will be broken by drawing lots. After December 4, sales will revert to first-come, first-served for the remaining seats.

The League is issuing plaques this year to the restaurants, reflecting their "Dinner is Served" participation over the last 10 years. A few will proudly show a perfect 10. They are a token of appreciation for consistent support of the Napa Valley Opera House and this fund raiser. We hope the restaurants will hang them with pride and that the public will look for them.

Be a part of Dinner is Served 2010 and eat out for the Napa Valley Opera House. For more information and to receive the reservation form, please go to www.nvoh.org/DIS or call 707.603.2333.

ABOUT THE NAPA VALLEY OPERA HOUSE LEAGUE: Founded in 1989 by Cathy Ball and the late Veronica diRosa, The Napa Valley Opera House League is an organization consisting of women who are dedicated to supporting the Napa Valley Opera House. The primary purposes of the League are:
• to support the performing arts productions and educational activities of the Napa Valley Opera House by organizing and implementing fundraising events
• to help the Napa Valley Opera House Board of Directors in its fundraising efforts
• to promote the Napa Valley Opera House through community ambassadorship
• to foster and encourage strong personal ties among League members and to function as a support group to members
Since its inception in 2001, Dinner is Served has made over $192,000 for the Opera House.