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July 23
The Palm will host a four-course tequila paired dinner featuring Casa Herradura. Corporate executive chef Tony Tammero has created a four-course menu offering colossal lump crab and a cantaloupe margarita; tequila and lime marinated Nova Scotia lobster salad; and a choice of aged filet mignon with three potato hash with poblano peppers, wild mushrooms and anejo cream sauce or oven roasted cumin crusted mahi mahi filet with cilantro rice, honey-lime dressing, and black bean and corn relish. Dessert options include fresh mangoes with vanilla ice cream and tequila-cinnamon glaze and a trio of sorbets served margarita style. A reception begins at 7 p.m., with dinner to follow at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $95 per person, exclusive of tax and gratuity. Guests will receive special gifts and a chance to win an exclusive bottle of limited-edition Selection Suprema, Herradura's finest tequila. For reservations, please call 617-867-0333. The Palm, The Westin Copley Place, 200 Dartmouth St, Boston, MA 02116, 617-867-9292.
 

ONGOING EVENTS

Mondays
Make the most of Mondays at Red Rock Bistro & Bar, whose bar serves up oysters, shrimp skewers, corn dogs and sliders for $1 each from 11 a.m. to midnight. Red Rock Bistro & Bar, 141 Humphrey St., Swampscott, MA 01907, 781-595-1414.
 
Mondays
Monday night is Sandwich Night at POPS, where an à la carte array of noshes not otherwise offered–including an Italian sausage baguette with broccoli rabe and tomato sauce, a fried-egg BLT with pepper aïoli on an onion roll and a grilled eggplant panino with mozzarella, hummus and walnuts–will be available for eating in or taking out before the big game, accompanied by homemade potato chips. POPS, 560 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02118, 617-695-1250.
 
Fridays
Aujourd’Hui’s Bubbly Bar is back: every Friday beginning at 5 p.m., the lounge serves up $10 glasses of sparkling wine, along with complimentary hors d’oeuvres, to well-heeled meet-and-greeters. Aujourd’Hui, Four Seasons Hotel Boston, 200 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116, 617-351-2172.
 
Chocolate Bar Saturdays
Indulge in chocolate dreams at Café Fleuri’s Saturday Chocolate Bar at the Langham Hotel in Boston from noon-3 p.m. The Chocolate Bar is an all-you-can-eat chocolate affair will feature sweets that hew to this year’s theme of the four elements: air, fire, water and earth (think cotton candy, white-chocolate arancini, a chocolate fountain, and black forest cake–get it?–respectively). Reservations are recommended. Cost is $35; $18 children 5-12; free for children 4 and under. CafĂ© Fleuri, The Langham Hotel, 250 Franklin St., Boston, MA 02110, 800-791-7764.
 

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