Savory & Sweet Female Chefs At Manhattan Beach Food & Wine Festival

Photo courtesy of Manhattan Beach Food & Wine Festival

One of the apical nutrient and vino festivals successful Southern California is taking spot connected Oct. 11 and Oct. 12 successful Manhattan Beach astatine Manhattan Village. The lawsuit laminitis Shelby Russell and Event Host Chef Neal Fraser invited 25+ of their favourite chefs to unfastened the inaugural Manhattan Beach Food & Wine Festival.

It's a two-night culinary extravaganza of savory and saccharine nutrient tastings, with apical wineries pouring their wines, trade brewers pouring their beers, and tone representatives shaking originative cocktails.

The All-Star Opening Night and Grand Tasting see immoderate of Southern California's apical antheral and pistillate chefs. Each 1 is preparing award-winning plates for the nationalist to try. It's a affable lawsuit wherever summons holders tin spot their favourite chefs successful enactment and accidental hello.

Chef Sherry Yard. Photo courtesy of Manhattan Beach Food & Wine

The stellar pistillate chefs successful attendance for this two-night spectacular culinary lawsuit see Great American Baking Show and Iron Chef Sherry Yard of Bakery by the Yard, on with Food Network's Too Hot Tamales and Top Chefs Master prima Susan Feniger of Border Grill, SOCALO and Alice B.

James Beard victor Suzanne Goin A.O.C., a favourite cook connected Hell's Kitchen and Top Chef, volition beryllium preparing a peculiar dish. Next Level Chef and Top Chef prima Nyesha Arrington, nicknamed 'The Ninja' of Native By Nyesha volition beryllium preparing her favourite dish, on with Stephanie Garofano preparing thing saccharine that she makes at Malibu Meringue.

Top Chef Antonia Lafaso of Black Market Liquor Bar, Dama, and Scopa Italian Roots will besides beryllium connected manus to service a specialty dish. Besides participating in Top Chef, she has appeared connected Food Network's Tournament of Champions, Supermarket Stakeout, and Guy's Grocery Games.

Chef Sandra Cordero is a James Beard WEL Fellow and Co-Founder of Regarding Her. Codero's Tapas Bar Xuntos is a Santa Monica favourite nutrient and vino spot successful the city.

Chef Elizabeth Falkner volition marque an quality connected Opening Night. She has participated connected Top Chef, Next Iron Chef and Tournament of Champions.

Dominique Crenn of San Francisco's Atelier Crenn will beryllium astatine the Grand Tasting. She is the only female cook successful the United States to attain Three Michelin Stars. She besides received the James Beard Award for Best Chef successful the West, and was the erstwhile Executive Chef astatine Manhattan Beach Country Club.

Manhattan Beach Food & Wine

General Admission tickets for this 21+ twelvemonth aged lawsuit commencement astatine $294.95 per person. Tickets are inactive disposable for Opening Night connected Friday, October 11 and the Grand Tasting connected Saturday, October 12, 2024. 

There is a VIP Power Hour that opens 1 hr aboriginal astatine 6 to 7 p.m. Tickets for this aboriginal and little crowded clip are $454.85 per person. Regular Admission opens astatine 7 to 10 p.m. Get a two-day Regular Admission walk for $577.43. A two-day VIP walk is $897.23.

This lawsuit helps money a bully cause. The beneficiary of the Manhattan Beach Food & Wine is Careers done Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP).  This workforce improvement nonprofit provides underserved teens pathways to prosecute careers successful the edifice and hospitality industry.  

Annually, C-CAP provides culinary occupation and beingness skills successful 186 schools crossed the United States. Teens passim Arizona to Baltimore, Camden, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City & Long Island, Newark, Philadelphia, suburban Maryland, and Washington DC.

Tickets to the inaugural Manhattan Beach Food and Wine Tasting are inactive available.