• Marc Buoniconti hosts 20th anniversary festivities Thursday evening at Siam Palace, 9999 Sunset Dr., Miami. Buoniconti, president of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, will join founder-owner Cynthia Halelamien in launching the restaurant's sushi bar. New specials include two-for-one beer and wine on Mondays, half-price Miami and California rolls on Tuesdays and $4 sake bombs on Wednesday. Through Nov. 12, customers will be offered free sushi samples; 305-279-6906, siampalacemiami.com.

• The American Institute of Wine & Food's South Florida Chapter and Flamingo Gardens are collaborating on the Flamingo Family Food Festival from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the gardens, 3750 S. Flamingo Rd., Davie. On tap: a culinary school barbecued-brisket cook-off, demos by Florida International University chef-instructor Mike Moran and music by the Whiskey River Band. Reserve tickets -- adults $50, students and seniors $25, kids 12 and younger $15, 3 and younger free -- at 305-663-9641 or 954-396-3875.

• Sushisamba dromo, 600 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a seven-course, $79 menu on Wednesday nights through November that includes such greatest hits as tuna tartar with osetra caviar and gold leaf and teriyaki-braised short rib with plantain, apple-smoked bacon and fig chutney; 305-673-5337.

• Neiman Marcus' Mariposa restaurant at the Village of Merrick Park, 390 San Lorenzo Ave., Coral Gables, hosts Havana Nights from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday with an a la carte Latin seafood menu, mojitos, live music and a patio cigar lounge; 786-999-1018.

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