Ethnic Enrichment Festival & Other Weekend Possibilities

The Q39 Burnt End Brisket Burger

Eat your way around the world at the Ethnic Enrichment Festival, today through Sunday. Whether you’re craving crepes or sticky rice, there’s a host of food booths that’ll make you feel like Epcot Center got transplanted to Swope Park for a weekend. There’s a host of live acts, including traditional dancing and music performances. The EEF…

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Donuts & Coffee-Infused Beers & Other Weekend Possibilities

Tapcade NKC

Maybe you’d like a donut with your beer? Tapcade NKC (1735 Swift Avenue, North Kansas City, Missouri) is hosting a Donuts and Coffee-Infused Beers event with Cinder Block Brewery on Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m. Cinder Block will be randalling (a device that allows beer to be infused with a given spice, herb, or…

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Tomato Tasting, BLT Challenge & Other Weekend Possibilities

A BLT

Give summer a proper sendoff with a pair of tomato-focused events. The ninth annual tomato tasting is at Local Pig (2618 Guinotte Ave) from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday. Think of it as a tomato potluck — bring a tomato dish or ripe tomatoes from your garden — and then dive into the bounty of fruit. Later…

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KC Cocktail Club at Lifted Spirits & Other Weekend Possibilities

Lifted Spirits Distillery

Wine and cheese, please. Discover how to pair wine and cheese with The Better Cheddar’s Wine & Cheese 101 class ($50). Wine sommelier Matthew David and Lincoln Broadbrooks lead a lesson and tasting on from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at The Better Cheddar (604 W. 48th St.). [FLEX-CONTENT] Learn to make cocktails and tour a…

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Kansas City’s Big Picnic & Other Weekend Possibilities

‘Darby O’Still,’ the focal point of North Kansas City's Restless Spirits distillery, is a 500-gallon, onion-shaped, copper pot still specifically designed to produce Irish whiskey. (Photo: Jonathan Bender | Flatland)

This is the time of year when you gather the whole city for a picnic. Kansas City’s Big Picnic is Sunday on the lawn of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak St.). The event will celebrate the Department of Parks and Recreation’s 125th anniversary and runs from 4 to 8 p.m. Enjoy live music, art…

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