



Limelight's "Smash It" station offers assorted homemade chocolate bark in flavors such as dark chocolate with dried cherries. Mallets next to the sweets let guests "smash" off a snack-size piece of the bark.

Roar Events produced a summertime event at Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa in Southern California. The dinner had a modern Mexican theme and featured an interactive margarita station. Guests chose the type and flavor of their tequila, as well as one of many specialty salts.



The eighth annual L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade Stand raised more than $1.3 million for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Held on the Royce Quad on the U.C.L.A. campus in Los Angeles on September 9, the culinary event, which featured upwards of 100 chefs, supports childhood cancer research.