DINING: Late-breaking news for dads, grads and everyone else

  Tonight (Tuesday, June 16) from 9 to midnight is Sake Play Day at Little Buddha at the Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo
Road. The admission of $30 per person includes tastings of more than 100 sakes and passed hors d’oeuvres, and guests can roam between the restaurant’s private dining room and outdoor patio. For reservations, call 942-7778.
  Hitachino Nest Ales from Japan will be featured in a beer-pairing dinner at 7 p.m. Wednesday (June 17) at Simon Restaurant & Lounge at Palms Place, 4381 W. Flamingo Road, with dishes created by a team of chefs. The five-course dinner and pairings is $75 per person. For reservations, call 944-3292.
  Dads can dine free at any time this month – in honor of Father’s Day – at Pampas Brazilian Grille at the Miracle Mile Shops, 3663 Las Vegas Blvd. South. To get a free $40 gift certificate, call 737-4748 or e-mail saleslv@pampasusa.com.
  Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza locations are hosting four upcoming charity nights, on which 20 percent of sales will be donated to that day’s featured organization. They are: Sunday (June 21), The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; Monday (June 22), Three Square Food Bank; June 23, Southern Nevada Susan G. Komen for the Cure; and June 24, the Public Education Foundation. For the donations to be made, customers are asked to bring in flyers available from the participating organizations and on Sammy’s website, www.sammyspizza.com, and give them to their servers at lunch or dinner. The Southern Nevada Sammy’s locations are at 4300 E. Sunset Road in Henderson, 6500 W. Sahara Ave., 7160 N. Durango Drive, 7345 Arroyo Crossing Parkway and 9516 W. Flamingo Road.
  And See’s Candies has rolled out its summer collection and special selections for Father’s Day and graduation. They include the Milk Chocolate Seegar and Father’s Day Box for dad, the Graduation Hat (filled with chocolates) for grads and Summer Berries (milk chocolate strawberry creams, dark chocolate raspberry creams and dark chocolate truffles in raspberry and blueberry), Citrus Twists, Summer Variety box and Gourmet Root Beer Lollypops. They’re all available at the four See’s locations in the valley.