December's Food & Wine Festival is selling out fast

The Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival is weeks away — Dec. 8-11 — but several of its chef-studded events already are sold out, including several on the island.

Of the annual festival’s 24 events in five county town and cities, 10 will unfold in Palm Beach — and seven of them now are wait-list only.

Among them: multicourse dinners at Buccan and PB Catch, plus a lavish brunch with renowned chef-restaurateur Daniel Boulud at Café Boulud.

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Festival tickets went on sale in late August and have been selling briskly ever since. “It’s wonderful to see this response,” festival founder David Sabin told the Daily News.

Now that the height of the pandemic is long gone after having sidelined the festival in 2020, “the community seems ready and excited to enjoy” the food and wine events, said Sabin, who transformed the festival from a one-night Worth Avenue affair in 2007 to the multiday platform it is today.

Dinners, brunches, cocktail soirees, children’s cooking classes, walkaround tastings and other events in Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Manalapan and Lantana are in the four-day lineup.

Events in Palm Beach with tickets still available are:

* A Dec. 9 multicourse lunch at Meat Market ($200) with the restaurant’s executive chef Sean Brasel, joined by visiting chefs Timon Balloo, Antonio Lofaso and Marc Murphy;

* A Dec. 10 walk-around al fresco tasting event at the Four Seasons with the resort’s executive chef Jose Gamez, joined by numerous visiting chefs;

* A Dec. 10 wine tasting ($150) with Palm Beach master sommelier Virginia Philip and sommelier Anthony Giglio at Philip’s eponymous Palm Beach wine shop.

Among other chef-filled events with tickets available:

* A Dec. 8 multicourse dinner ($350) at Okeechobee Steakhouse in West Palm Beach with co-owner Ralph Lewis and celebrity chef Robert Irvine;

* A Dec. 9 multicourse lunch at The Regional ($200) in West Palm Beach with the restaurant’s executive chef Lindsay Autry and visiting chefs Ashley Christensen, Mason Hereford and Jamal Lake;

* A Dec. 10 Champagne-and-bites tasting ($200) at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens with chefs Autry, Jeremy Ford and Miguel Santiago.

Tickets also remain available to the festival’s Dec. 11 finale: the Grand Tasting ($95), which returns this year to the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach.

To see the full festival schedule and other information, visit pbfoodwinefest.com.

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