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SOBEWFF 2018: Budget-Friendly Events to Sate Your Thirst and Save Your Wallet

By Nicole Danna

Feb 22, 2018

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.

SOBEWFF 2018: Festival Founder Lee Schrager Celebrates Woman Power

By Laine Doss

Feb 21, 2018

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.

Women Look for a Place at SOBEWFF 2018

By Zachary Fagenson

Feb 19, 2018

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.

The Boozy Events at SOBEWFF 2018

By Paula Echevarria

Feb 16, 2018

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.

SOBEWFF 2018: Ingrid Hoffmann Celebrates the Immigrant Experience at Women of Syria Dinner

By Alona Abbady Martinez

Feb 15, 2018

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.

SOBEWFF 2018: Hedy Goldsmith's Sweet Journey

By Laine Doss

Feb 14, 2018

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.

SOBEWFF 2018: Amanda Cohen Is a Veggie Magician

By Hannah Sentenac

Feb 12, 2018

Long before "plant-based" became a hot topic in the culinary world, Amanda Cohen has been making magic with vegetables. Her award-winning NYC hot spot, Dirt Candy, was the first of its kind, an eatery committed to vegetables in a sea of steakhouses and sushi dens.

SOBEWFF 2018: Angie Mar Is a Meat Master

By Clarissa Buch

Feb 9, 2018

Angie Mar, chef and owner of New York City's West Village restaurant the Beatrice Inn, wants to change the dialogue surrounding women in the kitchen. Mar, who has mastered the art of whole-animal butchery and runs a restaurant revolving around meat, is bone-tired of addressing her feelings about being a female in the culinary world.

SOBEWFF 2018: Alex Guarnaschelli Does It All, From Kid to Kitchen

By Laine Doss

Feb 8, 2018

It's easy to assume Alex Guarnaschelli is superhuman. After all, the celebrity chef is a regular judge on TV's Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay, a frequent contributor on national morning shows, a cookbook author, the executive chef of Butter in New York City, and the mother of 10-year-old Ava.

Wynwood Brewing's Seasonal Milk Stout, Coqui-to.

Wynwood Brewing Releases Seasonal, Coquito-Inspired Beer

By Paula Echevarria

Nov 17, 2017

Christmas has returned to Miami with festive decorations and one particular elixir: Coquito or “little coconut”. Each holiday season, the traditional Puerto Rican holiday beverage gets passed around in offices and among friends and neighbors. It so happens that the founder of Wynwood Brewing Company, Luis Brignoni, is a Boricua himself, and was inspired by the eggnog-like drink for the brewery's upcoming seasonal release. Coqui-To is a limited-edition milk stout aged in rum barrels, finished with toasted coconut, vanilla beans, cinnamon and cloves.

SOBEWFF 2016: Chopped's Amanda Freitag and Marc Murphy Dish About Their TV Show, Cooking, and Bloody Marys

By Laine Doss and Julie Harans

Feb 27, 2016

When Food Network launched the cooking competition Chopped in January 2009, it probably didn't predict the enormous following it would gain. The show, which tasks four hopeful chefs to make meals using ingredients in a mystery basket and then slowly chops the contestants until one remains, could have been just...

SOBEWFF 2016: Miami's Favorite Snack Romances the Bubbly at Croquetas and Champagne

By Alexandra Martinez

Feb 26, 2016

The croqueta has become synonymous with Miami. No other city in the United States relies on it as much. It is the younger sibling of the European croquette — a larger version of the fried paste treat with potato filling. Miami's croqueta, with its Caribbean roots, has transformed the once-listless...

SOBEWFF 2016: Marc Forgione Says Awards Don't Make the Restaurant — It's the Food

By Valeria Nekhim Lease

Feb 25, 2016

Chef Marc Forgione says he'll never know exactly what drove the masses to his eponymous restaurant in Tribeca. It's because during its opening year (2010), the eatery was awarded both a Michelin star and a two-star review from Sam Sifton of the New York Times. What's more, in 2010, Forgione...

SOBEWFF 2016: Choose Moderation Over Excess at This Year's Extravaganza

By Hannah Sentenac

Feb 25, 2016

It's February again, which means we're up for another weeklong ode to all things gustatory at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF). If this isn't your first culinary rodeo, you know all too well how underslept and overstuffed you're likely to be come Sunday. Although it's hard to...

SOBEWFF 2016: Actress Tia Mowry on Pop Culture and the Culinary World

By Laine Doss

Feb 23, 2016

More than ever before, the lines between celebrity and chef are blurred. Chefs such as Julia Child, Jacques Pépin, and Graham Kerr (the Galloping Gourmet) are the pioneers, hosting instructional TV shows that highlighted their culinary skills. When Food Network was founded in 1993, the genre took off, making stars...

SOBEWFF 2016: Chef Todd Erickson's Tips for Conquering the Grand Tasting Village

By Laine Doss

Feb 22, 2016

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) comprises dozens of fabulous parties, informative seminars, and intimate dinners, but the event most closely identified with the five-day celebration of food and drink is the Grand Tasting Village. Each year, the sands of Miami Beach are transformed into a culinary wonderland,...

SOBEWFF 2016: Sean Brock and Marc Vetri Bring New Ideas to the Festival

By Zachary Fagenson

Feb 22, 2016

Most young cooks dream of achieving the kind of success enjoyed by Charleston's Sean Brock and Philadelphia's Marc Vetri. The pair claims a bounty of hardware, including James Beard Awards. They're captains of burgeoning restaurant empires. But with the glory comes the complexity of managing it all. Just being a...

SOBEWFF 2016: Stephanie Izard on Making It Big as a Young Woman

By Julie Harans

Feb 19, 2016

Stephanie Izard is not one to turn down a challenge. She opened her own restaurant when she was 27 years old and became the first woman to win Top Chef in 2008. She even earned a Best New Restaurant nomination from the James Beard Foundation for her fearless fare at...

SOBEWFF 2016: Founder Lee Schrager's Must-See Events

By Laine Doss

Feb 19, 2016

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival returns February 24 through 28 with more than 75 signature events, tastings, parties, seminars, and dinners. The annual bash, which has raised more than $22 million to date for Florida International University, is bigger than ever this year — expanding from Miami Beach...

SOBEWFF 2016: The Big Events, From Bites to Burgers to Food's Future

By Clarissa Buch

Feb 18, 2016

The who's who of gastronomy are nearing their Miami takeover once again for the 15th-annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Hundreds of chefs will serve their best creations as more than 80 events sprout up across South Florida — basically the best 96 hours of a die-hard foodie's year...

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