A Taste of RVC

This Friday night, Jan. 29, The Rockville Centre St. Patrick’s Parade Committee will host the sixth annual Food and Wine Tasting from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the St. Agnes Parish Center, on N. Village Avenue.

Over 30 local restaurants and businesses have agreed to donate food, wine and beer to the event. Each restaurant’s food will be available for sampling at a six foot linen-covered table with a distinctive sign. To date, the participating restaurants and businesses include Busco’s Deli and Catering, Cabo, Cannon’s Blackthorn, Churchill’s, CJ’s Coffee Shop, CJ’s Rib Crib, DeBono’s, Front Street Bakery, Gabrielle’s, George Martin, Happy Hostess Caterers, The Healthy Italian, Kasey’s Kitchen & Cocktails, Kookaburra Coffee Company, MacArthur Park, Monaghan’s Irish Pub, Palace of Wong, Plaza Seafood, R.J. Daniel’s, Roe’s Casa Dolce, Sal’s Pizza, Stingers, Village Liquors and Wander Inn.

In addition, live music will be provided by Rockville Centre’s very own Jerry and the Newcomers, and the Hagen School of Dance will perform Irish step dancing. The entrance fee for all of this is $30, and entry is available to all adults 21 and over.

Part of the parade’s mission is to promote and financially support three charities each year and it has distributed over $550,000 to 39 separate charities in the 13 years of its existence. The 2010 charities that are supported by the parade, scheduled for March 20, are the Greater New York Chapter of the Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), which is based in Rockville Centre, the Mollie Biggane Melanoma Foundation, also called Mollie’s Fund and the Long Island Gaelic Athletic Club, Inc.

To learn more about “The Parade that Cares and Shares,” and the events that support it, visit www.rvcstpatrick.com.