Chef Craig Strong in a cooking demonstration at the Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival. Credit: Pencilbox Studios
I wrote about the awesome Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival a couple weeks ago ( See details here). And, as I expected, this festival is selling out very, very quickly.
Honestly, it doesn’t come any better than this. This is an opportunity to not only meet and greet with 30 of the award-winning chefs in Orange County, but also hobnob with Bravo Top Chef celebrities as they teach food demonstrations and sign cookbooks. And, of course, there will be literally hundreds of wine tastes to be had from the upper echelon of vintners, too.
You just can’t go wrong at this event! And, the Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival is allowing me to offer an exclusive LagunaBeachBest.com $50 coupon to you, my beloved reader. Go online to purchase tickets and enter the coupon code “BEST” on the second page of the process. It’s easy! Buy Tickets Now
Here’s the fantastic Chef lineup for the weekend:
On Saturday, Oct. 3rd:
Demonstrations
Bravo Top Chef Hubert Keller from Fleur & Burger Bar
Bravo Top Chef Rick Bayless from Red O
Mixology Master Tricia Carr
Restaurants:
Red O, Chef Rick Bayless
Twenty Eight, Chef Shirley Chung
The Winery, Chef Yvon Goetz
The Loft, Chef Casey Overton
Oak Grill, Chef Marc Johnson
Aqua Lounge
Pelican Grill, Chef Luke Turpin
Mastro’s Steakhouse, Chef Stephen LaFountain
Mastro’s Ocean Club, Chef Eduardo Albarran
Canaletto Ristorante, Chef Moises Mendoza
Driftwood Kitchen, Chef Rainer Schwarz
Tamarind of London, Chef Imran Ali
Tommy Bahama, Chef Jimmy Chang
True Food Kitchen, Chef Talia Zimmer
Filomena’s Italian Kitchen, Chef Linda Johnson
Honda Center, Chef “Jo-Jo” Doyle
Waterline
Tickets for Saturday here
Use the coupon code: BEST on the second page of the purchase process.
On Sunday, Oct. 4th:
Demonstrations:
Celebrity Chef Rick Moonen drops in from Las Vegas again this year at the Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival. Credit: Pencil Box Studios
Bravo Top Chef Rick Moonen from RM Seafood
Bravo Alan Greeley, The Golden Truffle
Top Chef Home Cook Challenge with Bravo judges and Bravo Top Chef Shirley Chung from Twenty Eight
Restaurants:
Oak Grill, Chef Marc Johnson
Aqua Lounge
Teemu Selanne’s Steak Tavern, Chef Josh Severson
Honda Center, Chef “Jo Jo” Doyle
Studio of Montage, Chef Craig Strong
Fig & Olive, Chef Frederic Guerin
Montage Pastry Chef Lee Smith
Slapfish, Chef Andrew Gruel
Del Frisco’s Grille, Chef Sarah Daniels
Boathouse Collective, Chef Mathieu Royer
Anqi House of An, Chef Helene An
AnQi Gourmet Bistro & Noodle Bar, Ron Lee & Tony Nguyen
Andrea Pelican Hill, Chef Marco Criscuolo
Roy’s, Chef John Vega
Stonehill Tavern, Chef Raj Dixit
A & O
Tickets for Sunday here
Use the coupon code: BEST on the second page of the purchase process.
And these additional Chefs are also being worked into the above lineup!
Pascal Olhats, Pascal & Cafe Jardin
Louis Maldonado, Spoonbar
Brooke Williamson, Hudson House
Brian Huskey, Tackle Box OC
Jamie Gwen, Celebrity Chef
Steven Kling, Five Crowns & Side Door
Jill Berger, no restaurant named
Rachel Haggstrom, Balboa Bay Resort
The Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival is worth every penny, believe me. I’m actually attending both festival days because there’s just too much to taste in a single day! Who’s joining me?