TAMPOPO Screens at the Tenacious Eats ‘Movies for Foodies’ Event September 10th

TAMPOPO is a beloved Japanese film from 1985 that is a paean to the joys of food. It will be screened next Tuesday, September 10th, as part of Movies for Foodies, a regular film series put on by the chefs at Tenacious Eats. This is a one-of-a-kind event where food is prepared and plated in front of you while you watch a film on the big screen. Tenacious Eats only works with locally produced food procured by them and hard-to-find ingredients imported from places that specialize in them. For each new film, the folks at Tenacious Eats write a new menu specific to that movie’s story. Sometimes the menu is literal and sometimes it is inspired interpretation. In all cases, each dining experience is different because each film is different. By integrating film and food, Movies for Foodies creates an original experience, a feast for the senses, an event that brings food and film, chefs and diners together. The location for the event is Meyer’s Grove at 4510 Manchester in ‘The Grove’ neighborhood of St. Louis. The doors open at 6pm, and TAMPOPO begins at 7pm.

TAMPOPO tells of a trucker named Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo, a sweet young woman who has her heart in the right place, but not her noodles, set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old woman who terrorizes a shopkeeper by compulsively squeezing his wares. Each interlude is insightful in some way about the role of food in Japanese life. Memorable scenes include ordering lunch in a French restaurant, a teacher at a finishing school trying to show a group of young women how to eat spaghetti Western style, a family eating the last meal made by their dying mother, and an jaw-dropping scene featuring a gangster, his moll and a raw egg yolk.

So join Chef Liz Schuster and the Tenacious Eats gang at Meyer’s Grove Tuesday night for a five course TAMPOPO-inspired meal as well as five cocktails – preceded by music from the hot gypsy jazz band, Coco Rico!

All tickets are $55.00 per person in advance and $65.00 at the door. Reservations are highly recommended. Seating is limited. Surrounded by sounds, smells, sight and passion, a Movie for Foodies dinner is the immediate gratification of the senses.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at Brown Paper Tickets HERE

http://tampopo.bpt.me/

The Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/549522155104028/