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Eating and drinking — like all sports — requires skill and a game plan. Here are all the tips and tricks you’ll need to enjoy the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

St. Roch Market Miami will officially open its doors in the Design District Saturday, February 24. The market, a sister of the flagship that debuted in New Orleans in 2015, will offer a dozen curated food and retail vendors, including a vegan eatery by chef Chloe Coscarelli.

This year’s food-and-drink-filled marathon that is South Beach Wine & Food Festival is in full swing. Unfortunately, every official brunch event has already sold out. That means you’ll need somewhere to snack before you head off to your first event Saturday and Sunday, because drinking (and eating) on an empty stomach is not acceptable. Here are five new brunches in Miami to check out this weekend.

Fort Lauderdale’s FAT Village will welcome its first restaurant with the grand opening of Henry’s Sandwich Station (545 NW First Ave., Fort Lauderdale) this Saturday. The eatery, formerly known as Proper Sandwich Shop, is being launched by JEY Hospitality founder Marc Falsetto, the name behind TacoCraft, PizzaCraft, and Rok:Brgr.

You’re hungry. You’re thirsty. You’re ready for the sun, sand, and celebrity chefs at the 16th-annual Food Network and Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival.But what you really want right now is a game plan. What you need is some professional insight into the best way to tackle what has become one of the nation’s largest annual food festivals.

This week, Grandview Public Market is celebrating its official grand opening in the new District area of West Palm Beach. Dubbed the first multivendor food hall of its kind in the area, the 14,000-square-foot center includes a melding of eateries, boutiques, fitness studios, and event spaces created from repurposed midcentury warehouses.

Uni, a Boston-based restaurant known for sushi, sashimi, and Asian street food, will pop up at the Broken Shaker Sunday afternoon to help cap off this year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

It’s the most delicious time of year — the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Each year, the five-day event attracts many of the nation’s best in the food-and-beverage industry, from wine and spirits professionals to chefs and culinary personalities. Since its inception, the fest has morphed into a world of dinners, seminars, spirits and wine tastings, brunches, lunches, and late-night, celebrity-filled parties.

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) returns February 21 through 25 with more events than ever before. When all is said and done, more than 70,000 attendees will have enjoyed nearly 100 parties, dinners, seminars, and tastings. The annual fete, which has raised more than $26 million to date for Florida International University’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, focuses the world’s culinary eyes on the sands of Miami Beach as hundreds of the planet’s most talented chefs converge on the city to cook, mingle, and celebrate food.

Want bods like Tom Brady’s and Gisele Bündchen’s? Though pro quarterback or supermodel status might not be attainable for all of us, we can get close(r) by eating what the celebs eat. Enter Allen Campbell, former personal chef to the gorgeous couple.

It’s a soggy Sunday evening, and Wynwood’s streets are empty except for a few brave souls rushing to or from their cars. But 1-800-Lucky (143 NW 23rd St., Miami) is filled with people, some of whom are hanging out at the bar to escape the rain-filled patio. Outside, the DJ…

Four hundred ninety-five chefs and culinary personalities will participate in the 2018 installment of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Only 75 of them are women.

Here are the best places to satisfy your need for sushi and poke in Miami.

Even though the South Beach Wine & Food Festival began as a humble wine dinner, it has grown into a full-fledged spirited affair. With the rise of craft cocktails nationwide came some of the staple events that make the fest a must-do. This year’s edition will be no different, with many favorite spirits-centric events back on the roster for attendees to enjoy in the form of brunches, happy hours, and late-night bacchanals. Here’s the lowdown on the booziest events at this year’s SOBEWFF.

Football Sandwich Shop, the beloved old-school sub shop that paid tribute to the Miami Dolphins through deli meat, has closed.

At Zuma in downtown Miami, weekend brunch is a mouthful. The experience, offered Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m., unites unlimited samplings of Asian-inspired food, bottomless cocktails, and live jazz performers. It comes at a sizable cost, though.

If your brunch game is strong, you don’t want to miss New Times’ Out to Brunch, Miami’s best brunch event that features South Florida’s top restaurants serving their finest bites.

Ghee Indian Kitchen has recently introduced an affordable, fast, and photogenic midday dining option for those wanting real food in a crunch. The meals are served in Indian lunch boxes called tiffins: three or four stacked stainless-steel containers sealed with clips and a lid with a handle for carrying.

Ingrid Hoffmann knows what it’s like to be an immigrant in a new country. You wouldn’t know it by her fluent American English and her infectiously sunny disposition, but the gorgeous superstar food celebrity, who hails from Colombia, remembers vividly the challenges of fitting in.

Late-night taco cravings are real. That’s why Beach Taco is whipping up Mexican street food in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood until 1 a.m. weekdays and 5 a.m. on weekends. The fast-casual joint, located less than a block from Story Nightclub, is behind a heap of well-priced food items made with fresh vegetables and antibiotic- and hormone-free meats.

For years, Hedy Goldsmith was known throughout Miami for her intricate, balanced desserts at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink. She moved to the West Coast to start a new path with wife Heidi Ladell in 2015 but forever holds an honorary place in the South Florida culinary community.

Fort Lauderdale’s plant-strong paradise just earned another honor for one of its culinary creations: Sublime Restaurant & Bar’s coconut cake was named “Best Vegan Sweet Treat” in the nation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).