Tampa Bay Wine & Meals Competition is again this April for 5 superb days. The competition guarantees to essentially the most thrilling and expansive this 12 months.
This 12 months’s festivities gathers collectively extra eating places, cooks, and wine and spirit producers for the last word celebration. New, notable occasions for 2025 contains “Expertise St. Pete” and “Expertise Tampa”. After all, the fan-favorite Chef Showdown competitors and Grand Tasting return too.
“We’re thrilled to convey the competition again for an additional 12 months, providing an much more elevated and dynamic culinary expertise,” shared Valerie Roy, Director of Advertising and marketing and Consumer Technique at CI Administration, the orchestrators of the Tampa Bay Wine & Meals Competition. “Tampa Bay’s thriving meals and beverage scene continues to flourish, and this 12 months’s expanded competition displays that with the addition of extra eating places and unbelievable chef expertise. We’re excited to welcome each locals and guests to savor the perfect this area has to supply, and we stay up for delivering a rare competition expertise this 12 months.”
This 12 months’s Tampa Bay Wine & Meals Competition happens April 8-12. Right here’s the schedule:
- An Night on the Tampa Membership (April 8): an invite-only cocktail occasion.
- Expertise St. Pete (April 9): discover town’s gorgeous coastal culinary scene by indulging in a four-course dinner at considered one of a number of featured eating places alongside Central Avenue and past.
- Expertise Tampa (April 10): widening the scope of final 12 months’s Hyde Park-focused occasion to focus on extra of Tampa’s prime culinary locations. Select from a number of collaborating eating places for a blinding four- or five-course meal paired with distinctive wine and cocktails.
- Breaking Bread with Heroes (April 11): a tribute occasion hosted by Chef Robert Irvine in partnership with the Robert Irvine Basis, together with internet hosting sponsor, Publix, and low companion, Castaway Espresso. The invite-only breakfast honors the bravery and heroism of 200 attending veterans.
- Irvine Spirits Chef Showdown (April 11): the competitors is again with two new battle classes, Battle Surf n’ Turf and Battle Smokehouse. Sixteen of Tampa Bay’s prime cooks, together with all reigning champions, will battle head-to-head in eight thrilling showdowns.
- Grand Tasting (April 12): includes a roster of greater than 40 of Tampa Bay’s premier eating locations serving an elevated unfold of delectable bites alongside a set of world-class wines, craft cocktails, curated by Breakthru Beverage Florida, with brews that includes Stella Artois.
“I’m proud to have one other alternative to host the week’s celebratory occasions on the Tampa Bay Wine & Meals Competition and tackle an excellent bigger position within the Friday night time Chef Showdown,” stated Chef Irvine. “It’s extremely gratifying to witness fellow locals and guests uncover and embrace the depth of expertise and scrumptious meals that Tampa Bay has to supply. I’m wanting ahead to connecting with competition visitors, celebrating our shared ardour for good meals, and shining a highlight on the cooks and flavors that assist make this area so distinctive. You by no means know who might be becoming a member of within the celebrations.”
For more information and to buy tickets, go to Tampa Bay Meals & Wine Competition’s web site or comply with together with them on Fb @tampabaywff and IG @tampabaywff.
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