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The biggest food festival audience in Florida, with kitchens ringing the World Showcase and the Eat to the Beat concert stage running at night. The 2026 run is in its final weeks, so the clock is ticking.
Tampa Bay's best eating weekend, right on the waterfront. More than 100 restaurants, wineries, and brands pour and plate with no limits on tastings, plus a chef competition for bragging rights.
Steamed clams, shrimp, and conch fritters on the Treasure Coast waterfront, and admission is free. Old Florida seafood the way it is supposed to taste.
Nearly 40 vintners pouring in downtown Wellen Park, food from eight local restaurants, and a five course ZD Wines dinner on Friday night. The closest wine weekend to home, and it punches way above its weight.
Caribbean, Latin American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern cooking in one downtown park, and every vendor sells a five dollar item. Free admission, full stomach.
The Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch throws its 24th annual afternoon of local restaurant dishes and good wine. One day, one campus, a lot of plates.
One night, one park, and a Grand Tasting that takes over Sanborn Square. The 13th annual edition runs 5:30 to 10 PM, which is plenty of time to do some damage.
More than 50 chefs across 24 events, and a Grand Tasting where every wine on the floor scored 90 points or better with Wine Spectator. Daniel Boulud, Maneet Chauhan, and Robert Irvine headline the 19th year.
Seafood cooked on site and live music all weekend at the fairgrounds, about an hour up the road. Paragon Festivals runs the same playbook in three Gulf Coast towns, and Sarasota goes first.
Stone crab season, served fresh on the New River. Local restaurants and vendors plate the catch, every vendor offers a five dollar item, and admission is free.
Napa Valley Vintners takes over The Boca Raton for four days of dinners, tastings, and a Sunday Sundown BBQ. This is the wine room in Florida where a Certified Wine and Spirits Professional feels right at home.
The longest Festival of the Arts run yet, with more than 20 Food Studios plating small dishes that look like art and the Disney on Broadway concert series at night. Eating with your eyes first is the whole point here.
Three days of shrimp, crab, fish, oysters, and lobster cooked on site at Laishley Park, our home waterfront. No drive home required. We live here.
A full week of chef dinners across Broward, capped by the Grand Tasting on the sand at Las Olas Oceanside Park. Marcus Samuelsson headlines, and he demos live.
Twenty years in, Sarasota's own wine weekend pours 350 plus wines beside dishes from more than 40 independent restaurants. The Grand Tasting fills The Ringling courtyard on Sunday, and it sells out for a reason.
The 2027 theme says it all: 5 Continents, 5 Wines, 5 Stories, 5 Chefs, 5 Dishes, each plate matched to a pour from where it comes from. Twenty plus events on one small island.
Charlie Palmer runs the kitchen as Chef de Cuisine, Chateau Latour's Frederic Engerer is the Honored Vintner, and the Saturday live auction raises serious money for Naples kids. The biggest charity wine auction in America sits about an hour from home.
The Paragon seafood and music road show lands in Centennial Park with a full posted band schedule and free admission. Cooked on site, eaten on the riverfront.
More than 25 international marketplaces and free concerts on select dates all spring. The sampler lanyard is the smart way to graze through it.
One tiny Florida fruit gets a whole day: kumquat pies, cookies, marmalade, craft beer, and sangria, with more than 300 vendors downtown. Free admission, and yes, the pie lives up to it.
Chef and vintner dinners on Friday, then the Grand Tasting and live auction on Saturday, all for SWFL Children's Charities. The closest premium wine room to home, and the cause is local kids.
Key West pink shrimp, stone crab claws, spiny lobster, conch fritters, and ceviche, served by the commercial fishermen who caught them. Ten dollars gets you both days.
The Stone Crab Capital of the World throws its loudest weekend of the year: stone crab, gator, swamp food, and country music, about an hour from Punta Gorda. Forty thousand people show up hungry.
The biggest food weekend in Florida. More than 100 events, Rachael Ray's Burger Bash, Guy Fieri hosting Tournament of Champions LIVE, and Aaron Sanchez on tacos and tequila duty. Four days and nobody goes home hungry.
Eleven days built around Florida strawberries and fair food, with a headline concert series on top. The strawberry shortcake line is the real main event, and everybody in Plant City knows it.
Topiaries everywhere and Outdoor Kitchens plating garden fresh small bites all spring, with the Garden Rocks concerts at night. The prettiest eating at EPCOT all year.
Fourteen thousand people a year eat Florida lobster, stone crab, conch fritters, and ceviche cooked by the fishermen themselves. Lobster season closes March 31, so this weekend is the last call.
The 59th annual world championship of chili, out in the West Texas desert. Hundreds of cooks, one bowl that matters, and bragging rights that last all year.
The other Terlingua championship, the Frank X. Tolbert and Wick Fowler memorial cookoff behind the old store. Two world titles get decided in the same desert town in the same week, and the rivalry is half the flavor.
The 16th annual festival closes its three island run on Oahu. Four days of chef dinners and grand tastings with the Pacific as the backdrop. Not a bad office.
Three days on Auditorium Shores with Texas chefs cooking over live fire and the Austin skyline behind them. Come hungry, pace yourself anyway.
Two days of brisket smoke to kick off rodeo season in San Antonio. Cook teams take this one personally, and the judges eat very well.
The Humble Rodeo's cookoff weekend, where Texas teams fire up the pits in the middle of winter and nobody complains about standing next to a smoker.
The World's Championship Bar-B-Que Contest opens Rodeo Houston week, and it is one of the biggest cookoffs on the planet. Three days, hundreds of teams, and a city that takes brisket very seriously.
Five days in one of the best eating towns in America. The Culinary Village runs all weekend, and the whole city cooks. Lowcountry food does not miss.
They bill it as the hottest show on earth, and the Scovie Award winners back that up. Hot sauce, salsa, and BBQ in Albuquerque for three days. Bring milk.
Rodeo Austin's own BBQ weekend in the middle of Texas brisket country. If you are going to judge a cookoff, judging one in Austin is a good place to start.
Wine tastings at altitude, lamb cook offs, and mountain air between pours. Ski in the morning, eat like royalty after. That is a fair trade.
Four days of grand tastings and chef dinners on the Pebble Beach grounds, with the Pacific right there. The setting alone is worth the trip, and then the food shows up.
A brand new million dollar pitmaster championship behind the High Roller on the Strip. Vegas does nothing small, and a BBQ World Cup with that purse is going to pull every big team in the country.
Nashville cooks in Centennial Park for three days, chefs and pitmasters side by side. Music City feeds people the way it writes songs, with feeling.
The Super Bowl of swine. The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest returns to Liberty Park, and the team tents in Memphis are a food festival all by themselves.
NOWFE week in the town that invented eating well. Five days of dinners and tastings, with the Grand Tasting at the Convention Center as the main event.
The granddaddy of them all. Three days under the Grand Tasting Pavilion tent in Aspen, with the biggest names in food cooking and pouring in one mountain town.
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