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Highlights of This Year's Festival
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170 World-Class Wineries, Breweries, & Spirits, and 70 Fine Dining Restaurants
Clink, swish, and swirl your way through over 800 different wines, spirits and breweries. Join fellow wine enthusiasts to taste from among the nation’s top purveyors, legendary domestic & international wineries, and San Diego’s exceptional craft brewers. Take in the aroma from countless artfully crafted dishes while watching your favorite San Diego chefs show off their culinary excellence and compete for upwards of $50,000 in cash and prizes and the coveted title of "Chef of the Fest."
See a List of Who’s Pouring at the 2011 Festival
See a List of Restaurants Exhibiting at the 2011 Festival
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The Wine Spectator Celebrity Chef Luncheon & AIWF Big Bottle Auction
Join the community of epicureans at Sunday's unforgettable Celebrity Chef Luncheon and feed your inner foodie with incredible fare from some of the best chefs in the country. The luncheon will feature 15 celebrity winemakers (or other high-profile winery representatives) and a world-class menu prepared by nationally acclaimed chefs. Guests will dine at tables of 11, each table featuring one winemaker pouring favorites from their portfolio.
Visit the menu and details:
Celebrity Chef Luncheon & Big Bottle Auction
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Celebrity Personalities & Culinary Stars
Foodies from around the nation converge at the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival to brush shoulders with national and local celebrity chefs and personalities such as James Beard Award winner Gale Gand, Roy Yamaguchi, StarChefs Rising Star Chef Katsuya Fukushima, Chef Patrice Olivon of the French Embassy, former Bravo TV "Top Chef" star Brian Malarkey, 11th generation glassmaker Maximillian Riedel, Master Sommelier Joseph Spellman, Chef Suzette Gresham of Acquerello, and television star "Sam the Cooking Guy,” all featured in 2010. Meet the 2011 stars face-to-face during one-of-a-kind wine dinners, create new culinary memories through VIP meetings with celebrated chefs, and experience true wine, spirit and culinary talent at its best.
See a List of Celebrities Appearing at the 2011 Festival
Tastemaker Dinner Series
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2011 Featured Artist
California native Michael Summers has been selected as the 8th Annual San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival Featured Artist. Summers’ playful and rich visual imagery and contemporary west-coast surrealism is a perfect match for this year’s Festival. The original painting for the Festival, entitled “A Merry Gathering,” expresses the spontaneous joy and wonder of an intimate and carefully planned dinner party and helped shape the marketing campaign for this year’s Festival. Summers will be present during the Reserve & New Release Tasting and Grand Tasting Event to sign copies of this year’s Festival poster and showcase his artwork.
Read More About Michael Summers
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Cooking Light Magazine Returns as National Media Sponsor
Love food, wine and healthy living? Cooking Light, the nation’s largest food and lifestyle magazine, brings its unique and innovative approach to delicious food and wine to the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival for the third year in a row. During the Festival, learn tips from Executive Chef Billy Strynkowski at Cooking Light’s cooking class, sample from featured brands in the Cooking Light Pavilion at the Grand Tasting Event, and browse through the latest edition of the magazine. Learn more about Cooking Light at; www.cookinglight.com
Cooking Light's Cooking Class |
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