Peter Dale, the chef of The National in Athens, GA, will cook up Southern food with a Mediterranean twist in two dinners at City Grit, 38 Prince Street, in SoHo, on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m. A five-course meal will be served. Tickets are $75 per person, with wine and beer extra. A winter festival to benefit the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, an environmental group, will be on Saturday from 6 p.m. to midnight at Ray Smith Studio, 261 Bond Street, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, with hot dogs, toppings, sides and beer. A $25 ticket includes a pork and melted cheese sandwich, a hot dog, a side order and two drink tickets. Children enter for $10. The fundraiser "SOS: Shame on Sandy" brings together artists, chefs (who will provide food) and other food personalities to raise money for the Mayors Fund to Advance NYC to help those affected by the hurricane on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Highline Stages, 440 West 15th Street, in Chelsea. Tickets, available online, are $150 per person. Tom Kearney, chef of The Farm on Adderley, leads a walking tour of Brooklyn's Chinatown on Sunday starting at 1 p.m. with stops various markets. Ingredients found on the tour will be featured in a dinner at 8 p.m. that night in the restaurant. Tickets, which include the dinner, are $60 per person, before tax and tip. To sign up, send an e-mail to thefarmonadderleyevents@gmail.com. China Latina will launch its weekend brunches starting Saturday at noon at the Hotel Indigo, 127 West 28th Street. The menu fuses Latin American and Asian cuisines, like a chorizo burger topped with kimchi. Brunch will be served from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. There are also drink specials available with certain entrees.