An Italian rotation

Most of these "Taste of. . ." events around town give you a broad sampling of many restaurants at once, but you don't really get a feel for the place when you're eating with a tiny plastic fork in the middle of a crowd. Consider the North End Exposure dinner tonight a condensed but more in-depth version of that same idea. Begin your first course at one of the four participating restaurants - Prezza, Taranta, Tresca, and Lucca - then rotate to each of the other three. (Meet at Prezza first for instructions.) With some of the rich pastas and seafood dishes they specialize in, you'll be glad for the exercise in between. 6:30 p.m. $50, $60 with wine pairings. Prezza, 24 Fleet St., Boston. 617-227-1577. prezza.com [L..O.]