Tickets for Champagne Cruise to Benefit Forgotten Harvest

The ninth annual will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Aug. 19 at in Berkley and tickets for the Forgotten Harvest fundraiser still are available.

The red-carpet event will feature chilled champagne and food samples from Metro Detroit restaurants including:

• Royal Oak
• , Troy
• , Troy
• Blazo's Pie Shoppe, Livonia
• , Birmingham
• , Birmingham
• , Grosse Pointe
• Real Bar BQ, Canton

Throughout the evening, Detroit soul duo Modern Tribe will entertain the crowd and a silent auction featuring VIP tickets and other prizes will be under way.

The event benefits , which bills itself as Metro Detroit’s only mobile food rescue organization and the second-largest in the country.

"Last year alone, the Cruise rais(e)d enough money to provide 625,000 meals to the hungry in southeast Michigan," spokesperson Justin Fisette said.

The Champagne Cruise will take place the same evening as Berkley CruiseFest, the city's classic car parade that will be held the evening before the Woodward Dream Cruise on Aug. 20.

“Cruisers think about that nostalgic drive up and down Woodward Avenue, but for us, each day we think about our cruise of 30 trucks along the streets of Metro Detroit to rescue millions of pounds of food each year to provide to families in need,” Forgotten Harvest President and CEO Susan Goodell said. “The Champagne Cruise has been a great way for us to celebrate a day distinctly Detroit, while benefiting people in need.”

Tickets cost $150 ($100 of which is tax deductible) and are available at www.forgottenharvest.org.