Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival announces celebrity-filled lineup, ticket sales

The Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival returns this year with new faces, places and experiences. Ticket sales kicked off Tuesday for the four-day, five-city foodie series of dinners, lunches, brunches, cookouts and walk-around tastings that run from Dec. 8 through 11.

The new faces include Bravo TV's “Below Deck” celebrity chef Ben Robinson, Food Network star chef and restaurateur Antonia Lofaso, Miami standout chefs Niven Patel, and Valerie Chang and a lineup of craft barbecue pitmasters from Texas and the Carolinas.

The new places include the soon-to-open Ela Curry Kitchen by chef Pushkar Marathe and the new Savor café at the Eau Palm Beach Resort.

The new experiences include a chef-driven Shabbat dinner at Aioli, a craft barbecue “Meat-Up” at Tropical Smokehouse, a lunch with father-and-son star chefs Larry and Marc Forgione at Café Chardonnay and a sunset wine tasting at the Eau Resort.

Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival's finale returns to Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach

For the first time in three years, the festival’s grand-tasting finale returns to the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach and will feature a slew of new restaurants, a reflection of the county’s expanding restaurant landscape.

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Fest organizer David Sabin says the event’s return to its most spacious home venue gives him the sense that the festival’s pre-pandemic strength will be restored this year.

“It’s hard to think we haven’t done the grand tasting there since 2019. But if there’s a common thread throughout the festival this year, it’s resilience,” says Sabin, who 11 years ago expanded the fest from a three-hour, Worth Avenue event to a multi-day extravaganza.

Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival 2022

This year, the festival will stage nine events in Palm Beach, six in West Palm Beach, six in Palm Beach Gardens, two in Manalapan and one in Lantana. Ticket prices range from $95 to $350. Most dinners are priced at $250, with lunches priced between $175 and $200.

For festival and ticket information, visit PBFoodWineFest.com.

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Bravo's Below Deck chef at 2022 Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival