An Evening on the Beach Serves Gourmet Bites in Support of Meals on Wheels

Nicole Surratt

An Evening on the Beach returns for its seventh year to the private Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica on August 4. There will be abundant amounts of food, wine, cocktails and music, all on the picturesque waterfront. Event sponsor Audi will present a showcase of luxury automobiles for attendees to view.

The evening will benefit St. Vincent Meals on Wheels, a program which delivers meals to disadvantaged homebound clients who cannot cook for themselves. Most care seniors, but the disabled and chronically ill are also served. Meals are even tailored for special medical needs.

Several dozen notable chefs and restaurants will be cooking bites on the beach, including the Wexler’s Deli’s smoked fish bar and CUT Beverly Hills, who will serve prime cuts with avocado wasabi and black garlic. 15 year old culinary prodigy Kai Kani, who now owns her own pop-up restaurant called, Kai, and Mimmo Bruno, the first artisan to make burrata in the U.S., will be bringing cheese from his artisan , Di Stefano Cheese. Self-taught pastry chef Genevieve Gergis of Bestia and Dahlia Narvaez of Osteria Mozza, who has worked hands-on with her mentor, Nancy Silverton, and most recently won the James Beard Outstanding Chef award, will be serving pastries.

Several wineries will pour their small batch wines, and talented mixologists will also be creating cocktails for guests. Among these, Shawn Lickliter, Bar Program Director at R‎épublique will be making his gin, sweet vermouth, egg white and raspberry “Clover Club” cocktail and Terrine’s Ryan Wainwright of Terrine will also be concocting drinks. Non-alchoholic creations will be available as well with Vittoria Coffee, all the way from Australia.

Festivities will last from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., and tickets are $185.

An Evening on the Beach will take place at the Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica on Aug. 4. Tickets can be purchased here.