Category: Wine & Food

• Three Little Pigs Charcuterie: build the house with the best apéro hour…

  

  Your home is lovely. It’s filled with your stuff–and more importantly than that–it’s filled with your memories. You have a sofa. You have a few books. Maybe a painting or a fruit basket. You have meals eaten with people you cherish. The spot on the carpet from where your best friend spilled Merlot; perhaps you…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  July 17, 2025

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #charcuterie, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #martini, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #relax, dinner, food

• Rune x Daylily Estates: everything is sunlight…

  

  “Wine is sunlight held together by water.” Solid quote. Thanks, Galileo. It’s poetic yet scientific, reverent and kind of cheeky at the same time, but did you know that he dropped even more knowledge in the next sentence? It might not fit on a cross stitch but check it: “The light of a sun, with…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  January 19, 2025

  A Love Story, Pairings, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, food, wine, wine-tasting, winery

• First Love, Then Wheat: the lingering taste of loss…

  

  I spent my summer saying goodbye to things that I had previously believed held permanent placements in my life. First love, then wheat. Loss is a terrifying thing because, more often than not, we don’t see it coming. One night, you’re falling asleep soundly after receiving a ‘Sweet Dreams’ text from the person you trust…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  January 5, 2025

  A Love Story, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLocal, #Wine, food, gluten-free

• Draft TaproomxDom’s Mob Wife Dinner: it’s a hit…

  

  A little black dress can be many things. Sometimes it’s a weapon–wielded like a machine gun. Whether it’s to boost the confidence of the one wearing it or as artillery when taking out a hit on someone who broke your heart: the little black dress delivers. It can cut like a knife. It can sting…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  May 20, 2024

  Pairings, Reviews, Wine & Food

  #Beer, #cheese, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #ItalianFood, #Kombucha, #LocalBeer, #LocalKombucha, #LocalWine, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #MobWife, #Pasta, #pizza, #SupportLocal, #Wine, food, italian

• Daylily Estates: they’re here to do it better…

  

  Sometimes we live our lives accepting the status quo because we don’t know any better. Then a disruptor comes along and paints our world in the technicolor of possibility–and suddenly nothing will ever be the same. Calling Daylily Estates a ‘disruptor’ feels a little funny, because there’s nothing particularly rebellious about what they’re doing. I…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  April 22, 2024

  A Love Story, Reviews, Wine & Food

  #Brianna, #Catawba, #CleanWine, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #petnat, #RegenerativeFarming, #SupportLocal, #Traminette, #Wine, wine, wine-tasting

• Bistro Nota & Scarpetta Wine Dinner: either you already know that there are remarkable things happening in the culinary scene in Fort Wayne or you’re wrong…

  

  Three chefs. Five courses. Five wine pairings. One unforgettable evening. If you haven’t attended a wine dinner at Bistro Nota yet, then I guess I’m sorry that your life is so sad and empty. The food is always faultless, the atmosphere cozy, and the pours generous. Honestly, I live for wine dinners at Bistro Nota–because…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  March 31, 2024

  Pairings, Wine & Food

  #food, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #Italianwine, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #ScarpettaWine, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, food, wine, wine-pairing, wine-tasting

• Rune: perfection in the 07…

  

  Rune is the newest darling of the 07. Headed by local James Beard nominated Chef Sean Richardson: maybe you’ve attended, or at least heard of, the Rune pop-ups that he’s delighted Fort Wayne diners with over the last few years. Well, this is the brand new brick and mortar home for his sensational cuisine. With…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  March 30, 2024

  Reviews, Wine & Food

  #farms, #FarmtoTable, #FoodandWine, #foragedfood, #foraging, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #localfarms, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLocal, #Wine

• Junk Ditch French Pairing Dinner: oh là là!

  

  I love French food. It’s special, bordering on magical. There’s something astonishing about simple ingredients transfigured to become greater than the sum of their parts through skillful technique. An ordinary chicken becomes extraordinary, elegant even, when prepared with French style. When it comes to la cuisine française, an emphasis is always placed on quality ingredients,…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  March 26, 2024

  Pairings, Wine & Food

  #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #FrenchFood, #FrenchWine, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, food, wine

• Venturi Pizza: pizza is the glue that temporarily holds a broken heart together…

  

  Some people love Valentine’s Day. They yearn all year long for the annual return of February 14th–bringing with it a storm of cheap chocolates and polyester rose petals. But when the corporate-constructed pink and red haze sets in on my city, something inside me screams to get out of dodge. So, I listen to that…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  February 14, 2024

  A Love Story, Pairings, Reviews, Wine & Food

  #DOC, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #Neapolitanpizza, #pizza, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, food, italian, italy

• Junk Ditch Mardi Gras Pairing Dinner: pass a good time…

  

  Monday nights used to be for starting the work week, steeling yourself for the slog ahead, and mentally preparing to not punch that one really tedious coworker in the face–no matter how much they maybe might have deserved it. Mondays aren’t like that anymore since Junk Ditch started hosting hella hype-worthy monthly Monday night dinners.…

  Plonk&Pleasure

  January 30, 2024

  Pairings, Reviews, Wine & Food

  #bananasfoster, #bigeasy, #Bread, #chianti, #Creole, #FoodandWine, #FortWayne, #FortWayneBlogger, #FortWayneFoodie, #MidwestBlogger, #MidwestFoodie, #NOLA, #redbeansandrice, #SupportLocal, #Wine, #WinePairing, dinner, food, soup