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Kiss Summer Goodbye: The Red Hot holds its last beer garden today featuring an outdoor screening of Breaking Away and New Belgium Brewing in the house.

New Menu: Panera Bread released its fall menu featuring a barbecue chicken chopped salad, Napa almond chicken salad sandwich, breakfast power sandwich, fudge brownies and macadamia blondies.

Fall Line Up: Primo Grill in Tacoma has released it’s fall cooking class schedule: The Cuisine of Tuscany, Sept. 12; Grilling with NW Harvest Bounty, Sept. 26; The Cuisine of Spain, Oct. 24; The Cuisine of Northern Italy, Nov. 7; A NW Holiday Feast, Nov. 21. Classes are held Saturday afternoons between 2 and 4 p.m. The $65 fee includes recipes and instruction, lunch with a glass of wine, tax and gratuity.

Eat The Puyallup: There’s food, beer and wine at the Puyallup Fair.

Really?: 25 million Britons have been injured by tea biscuits, paper reports.

Today’s South Sound Specials

• SessionFest, all day, The Red Hot, 2914 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.779.0229.
• Wine tasting, noon to 5 p.m., Tacoma Wine Merchants, 21 N. Tacoma Ave., Tacoma, 253.779.8258.
• Thurston Wolfe Winery tastings, 2-5 p.m., Water to Wine, 9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor, 253.853.9463.
• Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Harbor Greens Wine Bar, 5275 Olympic Dr. N.W., Gig Harbor, 253.858.8033.
• Wine tasting, 1-4 p.m., $5-$7, Swing Wine Bar, 825 Columbia St. S.E., Olympia, 360.357.9464.
• Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.564.1101.

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide