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SOBEWFF

Epic South Beach Wine and Food Festival is Arriving!

January 24, 2025 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

Epic South Beach Wine and Food Festival is arriving, February 20-23! You’ll get to hobnob with over 500+ Food Network chefs, stars from Tik Tok, Foodie Influencers & Winemakers and spirit producers at over 100 events. All coming together to EAT. DRINK.EDUCATE. for this annual culinary experience that draws fans from all over the world!

Left to right: Chef Eric Adjepong, Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, Chef Andrew Zimmern and Kelly Blanco, NBC6, entertainment reporter.
Get to hobnob with celebrities!

This year, I’m manifesting attending sold out Vietnamese cooking class with Tam Tam chef/owner, Tam and Dim Sum Brunch at Hutong with Dale Talde. 

Dim Sum Station at Director’s VIP Welcome Happy Hour hosted by
The Setai Hotel

BUY TICKETS…

You can view ALL the events
by DAY HERE or by CATEGORIES HERE!

Peking Duck Galore at The Setai Hotel

The 24th South Beach Wine & Food Festival starts with founder & director, Lee Brian Schrager’s Director’s Welcome VIP Happy Hour! Last year was at The Setai Hotel in South Beach and wow, what a start! Peking Duck anyone? 

Setai Hotel
Love these small desserts!
Chefs Aarti Sequeira & Jet Tila counting down to let us in!
Hakkasan’s Spicy Dumplings were sensational!

ASIAN NIGHT MARKET

Happy to hear this year’s Asian Night Market has been elevated as the CLOSING PARTY on the sand! Hosted by Chefs Andrew Zimmern, Jet Tila and Aarti Sequeira with a special performance by Rev Run on Sunday, February 23! I’m stoked for this!

Nicole Ponseca
2 Korean Girls

Catch my chats with chefs sharing their innovative & delish concepts.

CHEF INTERVIEWS

CHEF INTERVIEWS HERE!

Foodiecon Host venue, The W Hotel garden
Food Inflencers who presented

FOODIECON

@foodiecon brings tons of foodie stars, cookbook authors, bloggers and you get inside scoop how they have become so successful. Once again held at The W Hotel in South Beach.  

Goya Foods’ Grand Tasting Village on the sand under two Huge tents!

FINALÉ

Finalé is always the most fun…Goya FoodsFinalé ’ Grand Tasting Village! It’s a great way to get tastings from popular restaurants and up and coming private chefs get to showcase what they specialize in. 

Yelp winner 2 years:
Krzpy’s Pork Belly!
Cooking demos by celebrity chefs packs a crowd. You can take breaks and start over, ha, ha!

To date, SOBEWFF has raised $40m for @fiuhospitality students getting into hospitality. It’s a HUGE production and over 1,000 students are involved to roll out these culinary events.

BUY TICKETS ASAP AND TREAT YOURSELVES TO THE MOST EPIC WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL!!!
HERE!

PS I love this ARTICLE that gives all the useful details like where to park, kind of bag allowed, etc. Personally, I ALWAYS use a car ride for a no-hassle experience!

Do share your experience in comment!

Wok Star Eleanor & Fiona

Filed Under: blog, SOBEWFF Tagged With: "miami foodies", "Miami Things To Do", SOBEWFF, south beach event, wine and food event

SOBEWFF Dinner at Novikov Miami hosted by Chef Charles Phan

February 26, 2019 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

Food Network Cooking Channel and South Beach Wine and Food Festival (SOBEWFF) are doing a fantastic job with their dinner series, I love their tag line – Eat, Drink, Educate.  Guest chefs from all over the States are matched with Miami restaurants who share similar cuisines. Having dined at both Novikov Miami and The Slanted Door, Charles Phan’s San Francisco restaurant at the Ferry Building back in 2004, I was curious to see how their dishes complemented each other. Seamless and flawless are two words that come to mind! 

I got a chance to chat to Charles Phan before the craziness started and glad we took our photo then, cause I noticed some splashes of what looked like caramel sauce from his delicious Spanish Mackerel, ha, ha!

SOBEWFF just celebrated their 18th year!  It started as a one day affair and now spans over 5 days with 100 events.  Food lovers gather in South Beach from all over the world, so it’s not surprising most events were sold out. 

About Charles Phan in a nutshell…
Phan was an architecture student for 3 years before dropping out to help his mom at her sewing shop prior to becoming a restauranteur with NO KNOWLEDGE of running a restaurant or cooking professionally, the closest thing he did was bussing tables. 1995 was when he opened The Slanted Door in its original location in the Mission, San Francisco.  24 years later, Phan owns and operates 5 restaurants with one opening soon in Las Vegas.  I see he has applied his architecture into styling and cooking his food and into his restaurants.  He enjoys merging modern Chinese, Vietnamese, French food using classic techniques to tell “stories” about his dishes. 

About Novikov…
Head over for the full scoop of my Miami Spice lunch at Novikov here.  

Nothing is ordinary at Novikov Miami, this unique sculpture greets you as you enter!

The ambience with the curved outdoor patio and pendulum lights, the gorgeous breeze coming off Miami River made for a perfect setting.

Top: Phan’s Mung Bean Dumplings and Gau Choy Gow Pan-Fried Wild Shrimp & Garlic Chive Dumplings. I could’ve devoured 100 of them! Paired perfectly with Ferrai-Carano Dry Sangiovese Rose 2017.

From Novikov: Marinated & Grilled Chilean Sea Bass Skewers with Ginger, Jalapeno & Cilantro. I probably had six of these, so good. Paired  with Ferrai-Carano Dry Sangiovese Rose 2017.

From Phan: Refreshing Green Mango & Cucumber Salad, Thai Chile & Garlic Fish Sauce Dressing paired with Ferrari-Carano Fume Blanc 2017.

From Phan: Spanish Mackerel with Caramel Sauce paired with Ferrari-Carano Pinot Noir 2016.

From Novikov: Tender morsels of Wagyu Skirt Steak, Yuzu Chimi, Garlic Crisp & Micro Herb Salad. Paired with Ferrari-Carano Cabernet Sauvignon 2015. We sat next to pescatarians so they gave us theirs, ha, ha. Oh our tummies and taste buds were so happy.

From Novikov: Dessert – Crunchy Sesame Ice Cream Cone. Gorgeous end.

NOTE: this was a media dinner but doesn’t sway my judgement.

Filed Under: Asian themed restaurants, blog, Food Network, Foodie event, Miami Events, SOBE FEST Tagged With: "Asian fusion", "Charles Phan", "Food Network Cooking Channel", "Miami Foodie event", "Novikov Miami", SOBEWFF

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