Taste rules this weekend.

Bring your greetings to Asbury Park on Saturday, and help celebrate the seaside resort’s 110th anniversary with Taste of Asbury Park, a food and wine festival featuring dishes from 15 top restaurants in town plus wines from seven local wineries. It’s at Convention Hall, 1-4 p.m. Tickets $25 in advance or $35 at the door. (732) 502-9310, www.cityofasburypark.com.

Westfall Winery in Montague celebrates five years on the vine by pairing appetizers to its new 2006 whites and its 2005 Cab. Saturday and Sunday, 12-5 p.m., and it’s free. (973) 293-3428, www.westfallwinery.com.

Or, try the British Beer Tasting Dinner at Cape May’s historic Mad Batter Restaurant. Four courses, four different brews, $55. Friday at 7:30 p.m. 609-884-5970, www.madbatter.com.

And now, for some non-gustatory kinds of taste, like…

…in music. One of the world’s great classical violinists, Itzhak Perlman is in concert at the Bergen Performing Arts Center Sunday in Englewood, 3 p.m. Tickets $35–$125. (201) 227-1030, or go to www.bergenpac.org.

…in antiques. Get ye valuable (ye hope) olde thinges to the antique appraisal fair at Old Lafayette Village (www.lafayettevillageshops.com), Lafayette. It runs Sunday 1-4 p.m. Pre-registration is required, (973) 579-2382.

…in wood sculpture. Saturday is the last day for a Wood Turner’s Exhibition, highlighting artists that take the craft of working the lathe to the level of fine art. Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood. (800) 387-5226, www.perkinscenter.org.

…in, uh, sneakers? Well, your teens will know. Mischa Barton, formerly of The O.C., comes to Nordstrom (www.nordstrom.com) at Garden State Plaza Saturday 1-3 p.m. to autograph no-longer-dowdy, newly-hip and always comfortable Keds casual shoes. (201) 843-1122.