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St. Valentine’s tea

It will be tea time on Valentine’s Day at Partners Village Store & Kitchen in Westport. From 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, enjoy a spot of traditional English tea with delicious sweets and savories served elegantly in Partners’ Tea Room café. The cost is $9.95 per person. Call 508/636-2572 for reservations. Partners is located at 865 Main Road, Westport.

Valentine tea benefit

The Little Compton Village Improvement Society is holding a tea to benefit the historic Brownell House. The Valentine event is at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at Brownell House on the Little Compton Commons. Scones with clotted cream and jam, tea sandwiches, desserts and pots of flavored tea will be served with a surprise favor for each participant. The cost is $12 per person. For reservations, call Penny at 401/635-2642.

Toast the animals

Hearts for Paws, an annual wine tasting to raise funds for the Forever Paws Animals Shelter in Fall River, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at Vintage Barn Wine & Spirits, 580 GAR Highway, Swansea. Ticket donations are $21 per person. For more information, call 401/624-4480 or 508/678-0804.

Indoor farmers’ market

The indoor farmers’ market at Mt. Hope Farm, 250 Metacom Ave., Bristol, continues Saturday, Feb. 11, from 9 a.m. to noon. Vendors in the barn will include Wicked Natural Products, Maplewood Farm, The Coffee Guy, The Cupcakerie, Foxboro Cheese, The Local Catch, Aquidneck Honey, Aquidneck Farms, Provencal Bakery, Windmist Farm, Mapleville Farm, Wishing Stone Farm, The Reynolds Farm, Hill Orchards and Wholly Granola.

Vineyard valentine

Sakonnet Vineyards, 162 West Main Road, Little Compton, hosts a Valentine Open House on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 1-4 p.m. Enjoy tasty treats from various vendors, barrel tastings with the winemaker and mulled wine by the fire. For more information, call 401/635-8486 or visit www.SakonnetWine.com.

100 years of food

Richard J. S. Gutman, director and curator of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University, says that when it comes to food fads, “What’s new is old.” He’ll talk about food trends over the last 100 years in a lecture at the Newport Art Museum on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 2 p.m. The cost to attend is $10 for museum members and $15 for non-members. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The museum is located at 76 Bellevue Ave., Newport. For more information call 401/848-8200 or visit www.NewportArtMuseum.org.

Pasta, meatball dinner

The Hampden Meadows Volunteer Fire Company will host a pasta and meatball dinner on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 4 to 7 p.m. at 168 Sowams Road, Barrington. Tickets are $15 each and qualify you for a pasta supper and entry into a raffle of multiple prizes. For questions or donations, call 450-7092.

Valentine breakfast

The Bristol Fourth of July Committee’s annual Valentine breakfast is from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Cup Defenders, 230 Wood St., Bristol. On the menu are scrambled eggs, sausages, ham, homefries, pancakes, pastry, juice and coffee. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 6 to 10. Children 5 and under are free. The price includes a raffle entry. Tickets are available from Eric Sponseller at 401/254-3192 and Steve Ricci at 401/480-5003.

Cocktail competition

Newport Grand, 150 Admiral Kalbfus Road, Newport, is mixing things up this year for its annual martini contest that’s part of the Newport Winter Festival. For the Feb. 22 event it’s partnering with the United States Bartenders Guild for a unique Smackdown Cocktail Competition sponsored by Kettle One Vodka and Nolet’s Gin. It will be an “Iron Chef”-style event where all contestants compete at the same time using a secret ingredient that’s introduced just before they begin. The winner gets $500. If you’re interested in learning more, call David Rollin, director of marketing and rewards at Newport Grand, at 401/849-5000, ext. 3157.

Benefit clamboil

The Bristol Train of Artillery will host a clamboil at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at the BTA hall, 135 State St., Bristol. Tickets are $25. Ticket deadline is Feb. 13. The all-you-can-eat clamboil features clam chowder, clams, white potato, sweet potato, onion, New England-style hot dogs, sausage and fish. For those who don’t want clams, there also is grilled, marinated steak, baked potato, salad and bread. Kids’ meals (pizza, drink and dessert) are $3. Soda, water, beer and wine can be purchased at a reasonable price. For tickets, call Herb Deveau at 401/253-3927. Proceeds benefit the BTA to help keep a 230-year-old tradition alive.

Italian Night

St. Mary of the Bay Parish will host an Italian Night featuring Father Gower’s homemade pasta e fagioli and homemade wine and limoncello, after the 4 p.m. Mass on Saturday, Feb. 18, in the lower church, Main Street, Warren. The menu also features salad, bread, dessert and soft drinks. There also will be music by Jeff Jarvis Entertainment. Tickets are $10 per person after weekend Masses. Call 245-7000, ext. 17, or e-mail stmaryofthebay@aol.com for more information or tickets.

Annual pasta dinner

St. Thomas the Apostle Church will hold its annual pasta dinner on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the church hall at 500 Metacom Ave., Warren. For tickets, call 401/245-4488 or 245-4469. Tickets are $9 for adults and $4 for children under 12. No tickets will be sold at the door.

Young kids, old recipes

Coggeshall Farm, 1 Colt Drive, Bristol, hosts “Kids in the Kitchen” from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, Feb. 21 to 24. Children and their families will learn how to cook farm-raised produce over the fire at the hearth of the 18th-century tenant farmhouse. You’ll start by selecting produce preserved for winter storage, investigate old recipes in an 18th-century cookbook and then prepare a dish the way it was done 200 years ago. For safety reasons, one adult may not accompany more than two children. The cost is $25 for adults, $17 for children ages 6 to 12 for non-members; $20 for adults, $15 for children for members. Space is limited and reservations are required; call 401/253-9062 or e-mail info@coggeshallfarm.org. For more information, visit www.coggeshallfarm.org.

Chores before breakfast

Speaking of Coggeshall Farm, the living history museum continues its Breakfast in the Barnyard series from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22. You’ll spend the morning getting up close and personal with the museum’s rare-breed livestock and join the museum’s costumed interpreters to help with the morning chores. After the chores help cook jonnycakes on the hearth of the 1790s tenant farmhouse. Participants are encouraged to dress appropriately for a morning in the barnyard. The cost is $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and children ages 6-12 for non-members; $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and children for members. No reservations are required.

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