San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival

Local and international talent gathers at the gustatory tribute to all that’s good about wine and food (and there’s beer too); the San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival (November 14-20, 2016) is San Diego’s largest wine and culinary event. Held each November, thousands
attend, and why wouldn’t they?

The festival includes gourmet food, wine and beer tastings, celebrity chefs, cooking demonstrations, wine tasting classes and auctions. It’s also a great way to have someone do your legwork work for you; festival organizers spend the year doing personal research, and then invite San Diego’s hottest restaurants and chefs to their table, providing you with tastes of the region’s latest food trends.

Chefs square off in the “Chef of the Fest Competition” (previous winners have pulled out all the stops with the likes of duck fat-fried beignets), and the People's Choice Award allows you to render your own decision, which, of course, requires a taste.

-Supriya Mishra