South Beach Wine & Food Festival

About this happenin

The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival is four February days of ticketed tastings and dinners around Miami and Miami Beach. It began as a one-day event called the Florida Extravaganza at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus. Florida International University runs it, and net proceeds still go to the university's Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management. The festival puts its total at more than $45 million. There is no single ticket. Each of the 100-plus events is sold on its own, so you choose a burger contest, a brunch, a late-night party or a day in the Grand Tasting Village, where white tents cover three city blocks of sand and dozens of South Florida restaurants serve beside wine and spirits producers. Food and drink are included in a Grand Tasting ticket, and the village is 21 and over. Loews Miami Beach is the host hotel. Prices vary a lot by event, and the festival keeps a section for events at $100 and under.

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Where

Loews Miami Beach Hotel (host hotel) and venues across Miami Beach · 1601 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139