LIMITED SPACE IS STILL AVAILABLE FOR SWING INTO WELLNESS

Organic menu & wines and 11-piece swing Latin band promise exceptional evening in Snowmass.

Snowmass Village, Colo. - Whether couples are looking for a unique romantic evening or the girls need a night out on the town, they can swing up to Snowmass this Friday night, where the Swing Into Wellness presented by Vitamin Cottage celebration kicks off The Snowmass Wellness Experience with a special gourmet evening of dinner, dancing, and wine tasting.

"This event is a great way to start off the Snowmass Wellness Experience weekend, but the evening really could stand on its own as well. It's like having a new restaurant with a completely new menu and live music open up in the valley for just one night," says Event Director Josh Behrman.

Fresh ingredients and flavors abound at Swing into Wellness, where a specially designed 3-course menu is paired with a flight of four organic wines. The dinner was created by executive chef Jason Friendy of the Silvertree Hotel, who is a member of the American Culinary Federation and has previously worked at the Wyndham Peaks & Golden Door Spa in Telluride, Colorado. The menu, which is made from all organic and natural foods provided by Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers, is served buffet-style, allowing diners to sample five appetizers, three entrees, and three desserts (see below for full menu).

In addition to the dinner, the Swing Latin Band Conjunto Colores will sweep diners out of their chairs and onto the dance floor. This popular 11-piece Colorado band has opened for Tito Puente Orquestra, Sonora Poncena, Bob James, Willie Colon, and Ruben Blades and appeared at diverse Colorado festivals such as the Telluride Jazz Festival, The Taste of Colorado, and the Red Rocks Jazz Festival.

Limited space is still available for this special evening event, which runs from 6 pm to 9 pm at the Cabaret Room in the Silvertree Hotel. Tickets to Swing Into Wellness, which sold out last year, are $45 and may be purchased by contacting Denise Farver: or 970.923.8286. For information on the Snowmass Wellness Experience, visit www.snowmasswellness.com.

Swing Into Wellness Dinner Menu:

Appetizers:

* Chilled avocado soup topped with cucumber and cool basil yogurt

* Mache and purple endive salad dressed with vine ripe persimmons slices and spiced cashews Topped with a honey pomegranate vinaigrette

* Goat cheese rolled in ground chili served with sweet roasted bell peppers, wilted beet greens and confit of eggplant antipasto

* Drake's Bay Pacific Oysters served on the half shell with a ponzu migonette

* Hand rolled vegetarian sushi served with pickled ginger and wasabi

Entree

* Rosewater poached Pacific Black Cod topped with peach and strawberry salsa

* Vanilla infused Mavrick Ranch pork tenderloin fresh blackberries, minted orange compote

* Grilled Five Spice Tofu Atop buckwheat soba noodles and  Asian matchstick vegetables

* Sides:  Himalayan red rice, Seasoned heirloom tomatoes with grilled asparagus and crisp wax beans, Sesame wilted summer greens with roasted yellow squash

Dessert

* Organic chocolate and caramelized banana upside down tart

* Coconut and blueberry smoothie

* Grand Marnier and organic red raspberry sabynon