SOBEWFF turns drinking age this month—skoal!
Miami’s most decadent and delicious festival is back February 24-27, and this year it’s celebrating its 21st birthday with a ton of spirited new and classic events, dinners, seminars, classes, tastings—and celebrity chefs, of course.
The latest edition of the Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF) is hosting more than 80 events. A few are even sprinkled into Broward with the Hallandale Beach Series that includes a wine and food tasting at Gulfstream Pegasus Park and a dinner hosted by ETARU alongside two Fort Lauderdale dinners—one at the recently opened DUNE by Laurent Tourondel and the other at Hotel Maren.
Look forward to a variety of new events like Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives LIVE hosted by Guy Fieri, Tacos and Tequila presented by Tequila Cazadores and hosted by Mexican celebrity chef Aarón Sánchez, Asian Night Market hosted by Jet Tila and Aarti Sequeiram and Guy Fieri’s Late-Night Party hosted by the one and only Rev. Run, aka Joseph Ward Simmons.
If you’re looking for something a bit more intimate where you can still be entertained but also learn a fun fact or two, check out the wine seminars and master classes. The classes offer a way to get elbow to elbow with experts at the top of their fields. Learn how to make pasta with Macchialina’s Michael Pirolo, craft cocktails from the mixologists at Sweet Liberty, bake bread with the legendary Zak the Baker and a few more. As for wine seminars, learn about the Northern Rhone region, explore Italy’s white wines and California’s cabs or sip on several Barolo vintages.
Another way to get exclusive access to celebrity chefs is by participating in the Intimate Dinners series where chefs like Daniel Boulud, Laurent Tourondel, Akira Back, Sarah Grueneberg and Valerie Chang will be showing off their incredible culinary skills for you and a select group of guests.
Don’t worry, signature events like the Red Stripe Burger Bash, Wine Spectator’s Best of the Best and the famous Goya Foods Grand Tasting Village tents are all returning to Miami’s seashore. There’s certainly something for everyone this year. Whether you want to party, expand your cooking skills or perfect your palate, it’s all here and more.
Bon Appétit!
For more information and tickets, visit sobewff.org.
This story is from the February 2022 issue of Boca magazine. For more like this, click here to subscribe to the magazine.
