By DineHuntington.com/Foodie@longislandernews.com

WINE PAIRING DINNER: Bin 56 (56 Stewart Ave., Huntington Village 631-812-0060 www.bin56.com) and Banfi Vintners will showcase estate wines of Chile at a Fall Harvest Wine Dinner on Monday, Oct. 18 at 6:30 p.m. The $75 per person menu begins with lobster tail stuffed with pecans and Manchego cheese over butternut squash puree, with scallion risotto cake, paired with an Amelia Chardonnay. Next is spice-rubbed petite filet mignon, roasted onion and parsnip puree, aged Gouda fondue, paired with a hearty Marques de Casa Concha Cabernet Sauvignon. Third course: roasted rack of lamb with Scotch bonnet and pear jam, mint fragrant Israeli couscous, paired with a Terrunyo Carmenere. Finally, for dessert, guests will enjoy white chocolate soufflé with raspberry sauce, and because even desert deserves its own wine, a Concha y Toro late-harvest Sauvignon Blanc. Reservations are a must.

FOOD FOR FOODIES: Where do you bring the folks who own the Food Network to dinner? For Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce, the answer was clearly Jonathan’s Ristorante (15 Wall St., Huntington village 631-549-0055 www.jonathansristorante.com). Representatives of Scripps Networks, owners of Food Network, Cooking Channel and Travel Channel, among others, were in town to oversee promotion and production of presentations by their stars as part of the Chamber’s Fall Festival this past weekend. They landed at Jonathan’s Friday, where host Roberto Oronato pulled out all the stops to serve up a delightful meal. The three were likewise impressed by a Saturday night meal at Prime (117 New York Ave., Huntington 631-385-1515 www.restaurantprime .com) before heading back to Knoxville, Tenn. on Monday.

EAT ’EM WHILE THEY LAST: The hot, dry growing season means apples are maturing weeks earlier than during a more temperate growing season, says Mediavilla Orchards (1501 E. Jericho Tpke., Huntington 631-897-3566) owner Mary Pombo. That means apples that would be expected later in the season are ready for picking – and purchase – now. It also means sweeter apples with higher sugar concentrations, and a vintage year for cider, at least in terms of flavor. On the down side, the higher sugar content in the apples means they won’t keep as long, so eat ’em while you can.

SO MANY RESTAURANTS… so little time. Huntington Restaurant Week is in the home stretch; the eight-day week wraps up Sunday. With 66 restaurants from Huntington Township and beyond participating, one would have to eat dinner eight times a night to get through them all, and you’d still have two left over!

DIDJA SEE? DIDJA HEAR? Dine Huntington Restaurant Week stories were all over last week, spreading word of the promotion far and wide. WLNY TV55’s cameras were at Besito last week to interview manager Colon Solis and Restaurant Week’s Peter Sloggatt, and film some smokin' guacamole-making; WCBS 880 Radio ran a piece by reporter Sophia Hall on restaurant week Sunday; web-based Patch picked the story up as well, and Newsday’s Feed Me food blog helped spread the word too.

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