Winter Waters Kickoff Weekend: Newport
February 2-4th, Newport
Starting off the Winter Waters Seafare Series, our Kickoff Weekend in Newport, Oregon, will feature 3 days of seafood-centric programming, including an educational experience at Central Coast Food Web’s Yaquina Lab, a pre-fixe dinner at Local Ocean Seafoods (sold out) with Chef Enrique Sanchez-Rodriguez and guest chef Luis Cabanas, the former Executive Chef at Paley's Place. Plus, there will be a family-friendly, free event at the The Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
Book with the Newport Belle Feb 1st-5th for a 15% discount with code WinterWaters15. Bonus: Newport Belle will donate 5% of the room sale to Oregon Kelp Alliance.
A huge thank you to our sponsors: Newport Chamber of Commerce, Discover Newport, Lincoln County Historical Society, Local Ocean Seafoods, Oregon Albacore Commission, Oregon Coast Visitors Association, and the Central Coast Food Web.
See information about each day’s festivities, below.
Central Coast Food Web at Yaquina Lab
Friday, February 2nd, 11am-3pm, Yaquina Lab, Newport
Join us in Newport to celebrate Oregon's delicious seafare and the talented, hard-working people that harvest it sustainably. Enjoy a variety of beverage and seafood samples, cooking demos, and more while exploring the Central Coast Food Web Yaquina Lab facility. Find out what the CCFW is doing to build a more resilient coastal and regional food system.
This in-person event will take place at the Yaquina Lab in Newport, where you'll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the unique food culture of the Oregon Coast. Bonus: there will be a pop-up seafood market!
This Friday event is the first in a series of three events with Winter Waters in Newport over the weekend of Feb. 2nd-4th. Tickets are required, so please register ahead of time. There will not be tickets available for sale at the door. Click the ticket link below to see the event agenda.
SOLD OUT - Local Ocean Seafoods Dinner
Saturday, February 3rd, Local Ocean Seafoods, Newport
Join us at sustainable seafood-centric restaurant Local Ocean Seafoods for a a seaweed-focused 5-course pre-fixe dinner with Local Ocean Executive Chef Enrique Sanchez-Rodriguez and guest chef Luis Cabanas, the former Executive Chef at Paley's Place.
In addition to the chef powerhouse collaboration, representatives from OSU’s Oregon Sea Grant and Ecotrust will be there to share key findings from their recent frozen seafood shelf life study, funded by a NOAA grant. This two-year study at the Food Innovation Center in Portland ran 5 tests with over 600 different seafood-eating consumers (~120 consumers per test) assessing the quality of frozen seafood over time and learning about consumer perceptions of seafood. After 24 months, results show that all attributes tested including the appearance, aroma, texture, flavor, sweetness, firmness, moisture content, aftertaste and overall quality were liked equally or more than at time 0 months. Frozen seafood has many advantages, including to allow small fishing businesses, restaurants, and retailers to avoid the volatility inherent in the fresh-fish market, extend the shelf life of their catch, reduce waste, lower carbon emissions, and deliver what seafood eaters are demanding: delicious food.
A portion of the proceeds form this dinner will be donated to Central Coast Food Web, to further its mission to make it easier for people to find and buy local produce, meat, and seafood.
SOLD OUT - Seaweed Cooking + Dungeness Cleaning Demo
SOLD OUT
Sunday, 2/4, 10am-11am, Local Ocean Seafoods
Seaweed farmer and Winter Waters Co-Founder Alanna Kieffer will post up next to the Local Ocean Seafoods fish counter for a FREE seaweed tasting and cooking demo featuring Pacific Dulse from Oregon Seaweed. Additionally, Katie Wiley will demonstrate how to use the Crack’n Crab Cleaner to dispatch Dungeness crab. She’ll explain why this is her preferred way to process and clean crab. Newport is the Dungeness Crab Capital of the World, so we thought it only appropriate to have an educational event featuring this much-loved crustacean.
Local Ocean’s seafood counter will be open for business so folks can stock up on fresh, frozen, and smoked fish and shellfish. There’s also wine by the bottle and other ready-to-eat food options available for sale. The restaurant opens at 11am, so stay for lunch or head over to our next event: Family Free Day at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, which is on from 11am-4pm.
Family Free Day at Pacific Maritime Heritage Center
Sunday, February 4th, 11am-4pm, Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, Newport
Family Free Day at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center will feature the newly re-designed Beautiful & Wild Oregon Fisheries: 150 years of Innovation exhibit celebrating the legacy and world-renowned sustainability standards of our fishing industry. Explore the museum while you enjoy the stunning views of Newport's working bay front. There will also be kids activities, so make sure to bring the whole family! Enjoy coffee, tea, and shortbread-seaweed cookies made with Oregon Seaweed’s Pacific Dulse, which is farmed in Garibaldi.
