Derby Day in the Bay Area: Mint Juleps, Hot Browns

The day of the Kentucky Derby — this year, Saturday, May 4 — is a wonderful time to indulge in the specialties for which the race and that region are known.

— In Los Gatos, The Bywater will host a daylong party starting at 11 a.m. with soft-shell crab, freshly shucked oysters — plus mint juleps and contests for best women’s hat, best dressed and most dapper couple. The event starts at 11 a.m. Tickets for the party only (which includes a raffle ticket) are $25, and proceeds will be donated to World Central Kitchen. Reservations: www.thebywaterca.com; 532 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos.

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— At Sabio on Main in Pleasanton, executive chef Francis X. Hogan will serve that classic Kentucky sandwich, the Hot Brown, on both days of Derby weekend. The open-face sandwich was invented in 1926 at the Brown Hotel in Louisville. Hogan’s version is made with smoked heritage turkey, artisanal Baker’s Bacon and Mornay sauce on toasted, house-baked brioche. As for the mint juleps, he says, “We’ll serve our juleps the proper way, smashing our ice to order in a Lewis Bag.” Reservations: www.sabiopleasanton.com; 501 Main St., Pleasanton.

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