Coastal Living mag names top 10 seafood and wine festivals
Mon Jun 2, 2:34 PM ET
-Stone Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival, Longboat Key, Fla., Nov. 13-16, at The Colony resort. Cooking demonstrations, wine offerings, beachfront tasting, gala with wines and a seven-course meal.
-Sushi & Sake Festival, Long Beach, Calif., June 14. Sake pavilion with tastings and seminars, presentations from the Sushi Chef Institute, music and dance performances, sumo and martial arts exhibitions.
-Kapalua Wine & Food Festival, Maui, Hawaii, June 26-29, at the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua. Tastings and pairings, with chefs, winemakers, foodies and food critics among those attending.
-Clayoquot Oyster Festival, British Columbia, Canada, usually held the weekend before (U.S.) Thanksgiving. Celebrates the harvest of shellfish farms on Vancouver Island's west coast with oyster-and-wine restaurant dinners, farm tours and seminars from oystemen and scientists.
-Crab & Wine Days and Taste Mendocino, Mendocino, Calif., a winter festival held over several weekends in late January/early February celebrating Dungeness crab season. Cooking classes, crab tours, fishing excursions, dinners, and crab cake cook-off and tasting.
-Harvest on the Harbor, Portland, Maine, Oct. 23-25. Tastings, seminars, dinners.
-Cayman Cookout, Grand Cayman Island, Jan. 16-19 (2009). Wine-pairing demos, tastings and seminars hosted by the chef from the local Ritz-Carlton restaurant, Blue by Eric Ripert.
-Newport Seafood & Wine Festival, Oregon, Feb. 20-22 (2009). Local oyster, crab and other seafood with wines.
-Taste of the Beach, Outer Banks, N.C., March 5-9 (2009). More than 40 events including wine-pairing demonstrations and dinners, cooking classes, chowder cook-off, tapas crawl tour of local restaurants and Champagne lounge.
-Pebble Beach Food & Wine, Pebble Beach, Calif., April 16-19 (2009). Demonstrations by celebrity chefs, rare-wine auction and tastings.
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