Sunday, January 16, 2022

FORBES / South Beach Wine & Food Festival Founder Shares His Top Event Picks For 2022


The Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival Presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF®) is gearing up for its 21st year with a star-studded lineup featuring Food Network & Cooking Channel personalities and more than 400 chefs and wine and spirit producers. These talented chefs and stars are coming together for a weekend of food and booze-filled events consisting of walk-around tastings, intimate dinners, late-night parties, brunches, lunches, master classes, wine seminars and more. Widely recognized as one of the country’s largest and most popular, the four-day Festival returns to the sand February 24 to 27, 2022 with 90+ events spanning Miami-Dade and Broward counties. 

Feasts from burden: South Florida’s food festivals still pack a punch after rebounding from COVID

That faint, sweet-salty aroma of elephant ears, bacon, garlic and tacos reaching your nostrils is no lie: South Florida’s bounty of food festivals are back. Starting with the deep-fried decadence of this weekend’s South Florida Fair (Jan. 14-30) and ending with more battered sea creatures at the Pompano Beach Seafood Festival (April 22-24), the calendar once again brims with food and drink, COVID be damned. Call it a remarkable rebound, a testament to the resilience of the South Florida food community, which endured two straight years of COVID delays, postponements and outright cancellations. Just about every festival on this list has survived one pandemic burden or another.