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In true style, Foreign Cinema is doing it up for their 10th anniversary. We're talking magicians, dancers, henna artists, acrobats, jugglers and, of course, plentiful cocktails and bites from the Foreign Cinema kitchen.

Proceeds from the evening will support the Bay Area nonprofit organization, DrawBridge, which is committed to providing creative art programs for homeless children and youth.

Gayle Pirie and John Clark of Foreign Cinema will opens their kitchen to cowgirls—well, to Sue Conley and Peg Smith, founders of Cowgirl Creamery, that is. The dinner, part of an ongoing celebration for the restaurant’s tenth anniversary, will feature courses showcasing Cowgirl’s signature cheeses, including one that Conley and Smith (who will be on hand throughout the dinner to answer questions) made expressly for this meal. Reservations are recommended.

Foreign Cinema is celebrating an anniversary—this year is the restaurant’s tenth. Throughout 2009 they’ll be hosting guest chefs, beginning with a special Parsi-inspired (read: Indian) brunch with local cookbook author Niloufer Ichaporia-King.

Dine out on December 18 and you'll be helping the 150,000 San Franciscans who don't have enough to eat. Ten percent of the proceeds earned by restaurants participating in the Dine Out Against Hunger (including Maverick, A16, Americano, Sociale, Delfina, Foreign Cinema, Incanto, Kuleto's, Magnolia, Range, Serpentine, Slow Club and SPQR) will be donated to the San Francisco Food Bank.