Sweet and savory confections from last year's edition

"Every dollar of the $65 ticket price goes to a carefully-selected community organization," says Chris Schiavone, Founder of City Square. "This year's beneficiary is  Tutoring Plus, an organization that supports and encourages the academic, personal, and social growth of children and youth in our neighborhood. We're especially excited about the event this year, because the proceeds have been earmarked to help support a new program that Tutoring Plus has launched in collaboration with Lesley University: Girls and Media."

Ellen McLaughlin, the Executive Director of Tutoring Plus, explains: "This wonderful program will provide young girls an opportunity to attend college one night a week for seven weeks. Imagine getting on a school bus as a young 6th, 7th or 8th grade, and attending your first college class! As a young girl, you are in the process of forming your own opinions about social and print media, and music but you do not yet have the tools for examining the messages you are receiving daily. How do you make good choices? Well this college class at Lesley provides them with a chance for their voices to be heard and an opportunity to learn new tools to analyze and process information about the messages they are receiving."

"This is one of the things that really attracted us to Tutoring Plus," says Schiavone, who is also the Co-Founder of BostonChefs.com. "Both of our businesses--BostonChefs.com and City Square Associates--are deeply involved in the media world, both digital and traditional. The kids that Tutoring Plus serves are not only media users themselves; they are also the media professionals of tomorrow, and we're thrilled to play some small role in helping them leverage the power of media to enrich and change people's lives."  

Fall's harvest...with a chef's touch

UpStairs will be joined by Cambridge newcomers Bondir, Area Four, and Catalyst, as well as by perennial favorites like Sandrine's, Henrietta's Table, Evoo, Harvest, Bergamot, Garden at the Cellar, and Russell House Tavern. Michael Scelfo of Russell House captures the essence of the event perfectly when he says, "It is important to us to use the freshest seasonal and local ingredients on our menu daily, so we're excited to create a special dish for Flavors of Fall using the very best that our New England fall harvest has to offer." 

And, as if twelve different takes on the New England harvest weren't enough, the ticket also gives guests the opportunity to enjoy a unique cocktail created by Noir; wines poured by the purveyors of fine wines Dreyfus, Ashby & Company; beers from Brooklyn Brewery; and coffee and ice cream from local roaster J.P. Licks. In keeping with the musical heritage of Regattabar, the Rollo Tomasi Quartet will serve up its unique blend of jazz. Tickets are available for purchase online, and for those unable to attend the event in person, the opportunity to sponsor a ticket for a worthy volunteer, or to make a donation is also available. 

Since the first Flavors event in 2004, City Square, together with co-sponsors BostonChefs.com and The Charles Hotel, have raised nearly $75,000 for a wide range of Cambridge-based community organizations. "Most of these organizations," says Executive Editor of BostonChefs.com Honor Lydon, "have used the proceeds to build out new programs and increase their impact in the community. This year we've set up a place online--we're calling it FOF HOF (Flavors of Fall Hall of Fame)--where folks can read about the amazing accomplishments of these small but mighty important community-based organizations."

To order tickets online, click here.

Or, if you can't get to Cambridge for the event, to sponsor a ticket for a worthy volunteer of the organization, click here.

And remember: The $65 per person ticket price--which goes entirely to support the good work of Tutoring Plus--includes food, beverages, live music and a generally excellent evening of Fall Fun.