Weekend best bets: Brats and Brews, Winter Luau and Raleigh Roasts

RALEIGH, N.C. — This weekend is full of fun festivals revolving around food, coffee, cultural celebrations and more.

Five Year Anniversary Party (Bombshell Brewing, 120 Quantum Drive, Holly Springs) - North Carolina's first 100-percent women-owned microbrewery is celebrating their birthday with new beer releases, food trucks, live music, a t-shirt making station and fairy hair on Saturday. The event is family-friendly.

Triangle Restaurant Week - During this week, participating restaurants offer special three-course menu options and fixed pricing. The specials run through Sunday.

Winter Luau (The Durham Hotel, 315 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham) - This family-style luau dinner will explore the diverse influences that have shaped Hawaiian cuisine. From Asia to the Mediterranean, this dinner will include pasture-raised hogs from Firsthand Foods at The Durham Hotel on Saturday night.

Raleigh Roasts (City of Raleigh Museum, 220 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh) - The City of Raleigh Museum is hosting this event on Saturday to celebrate Raleigh’s café culture. From 9 a.m. until noon, local businesses will be providing museum visitors with samples selling products. Visitors can purchase a wristband for $5 that allows them to sample freely and receive a complimentary City of Raleigh Museum coffee mug. Confirmed vendors include Larry’s Coffee, Lucettegrace, Raleigh Coffee Company, Rise Biscuits Donuts Cameron Village, Benelux Coffee, and Escazu Chocolates. Chatham Rabbits Music Co. will provide musical entertainment.

Bootleggers' Bash - A Nextstep Benefit (Imurj, 300 S. McDowell Street, Raleigh) - Enjoy a night of jazz, booze, rebellion and swanky 20s style at Imurj in downtown Raleigh. Proceeds from this Friday night event will go to NextStep Raleigh.

Brats & Brews: A Garden Party & Fundraiser (Eastcut Sandwich Bar, 3211 Old Chapel Hill Road, Durham) - Eastcut Sandwich Shop in Durham will be grilling up brats and kielbasa from Firsthand Foods and serving up several brews from Fullsteam Brewery during this event Saturday night. One dollar from each draft beer will go to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. The business will also be collecting canned goods for the food bank.

Chinese New Year (Dorton Arena, 1025 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh) - Enjoy this family-friendly fair on Saturday at Dorton Arena. There will be music, folk dance and kung fu performances on a main stage in addition to authentic Chinese, Vietnamese and American meals and snacks. WRAL anchor Renee Chou will emcee.

18th Annual African American Cultural Celebration (NC Museum of History, 5 East Edenton Street, Raleigh) - Join the statewide kickoff to Black History Month at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh on Saturday. There will be more than 75 musicians, storytellers, dancers, chefs, historians, playwrights, authors, artists, reenactors and more.

Durham Central Park Food Truck Rodeo (502 Foster St., Durham) - The first Durham Central Park food truck rodeo of the year is on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. There will be everything from sweet to savory treats and music.

Cher (PNC Arena, 1400 Edwards Mill Rd, Raleigh) - The one and only Cher brings her "Here We Go Again" Tour to PNC Arena on Sunday.

Miss Saigon (DPAC, 123 Vivian St., Durham) - Experience the acclaimed new production of this legendary musical. This is the story of a young Vietnamese woman named Kim who is orphaned by war and forced to work in a bar run by a notorious character known as the Engineer. There she meets and falls in love with an American G.I. named Chris, but they are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. See it through Sunday.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Carolina Theatre of Durham, 309 W. Morgan St., Durham) - South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo was founded in the early 1960s by Joseph Shabalala who lived just outside the small town of Ladysmith, in the province of kwaZulu Natal, half way between Johannesburg and Durban. The group has gone on to tour the world. See them Sunday night.