Game for a Hunt Festival

Where the wild things are: You’ll find rattlesnake and caribou and musk ox from the North Pole on the menu in Fullerton at Aurora’s fifth annual Festival of the Hunt, scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 3. Chef-owner Leo Holczer’s feast of exotic wild game dishes, presented in the atmosphere of a traditional hunting lodge, will also include choices such as buffalo, venison, alligator (always on the restaurant’s appetizer list) wild piglet and wild turkey, duck, pheasant, quail, guinea hen, goose, rabbit and perhaps even ostrich. A la carte entrees will range from $20 to $30. Make reservations for seatings from 5 to 10 p.m. by calling (714) 738-0272. Aurora is at 1341 S. Euclid Ave..

It’s purple-feet time again at Prego Ristorante next Sunday, Nov. 3, when guests will have a chance to stomp more than half a ton of grapes, as well as to feast on country Italian foods and sip fine wines. This year’s Festa della Vendemmia, a re-creation of the traditional Italian harvest feast, will benefit the Short Stature Foundation. On the buffet will be more than a dozen salads and antipasti, pastas and entrees such as roast suckling pig, leg of lamb, osso buco and Gamberoni shrimp. There will also be a band and children’s entertainment. The event is scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets: $40 per person in advance, $50 at the door; $10 for children under age 10. For information, call (714) 755-8047, or Prego, (714) 553-1333. The restaurant is at 18420 Von Karman Ave., Irvine.

The Goodyear Orange County Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 3, will be celebrated with Cuisine of Orange County at the Marketplace on Campus Drive across from the UC Irvine campus. Food tickets ($1 each) will be used to buy samples from more than 30 Orange County dining establishments that will include Bistango, Gandhi, Hassan’s, Marrakesh, Delaney’s, Z Pizza, the Good Earth, Lido Shipyard and Red Lobster. Entry to the event, which will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is $2. Finish-line festivities will include a music festival, health and fitness expo and beer garden. Half of the proceeds will go to the March of Dimes. Information: (714) 640-2593.