photo by Layla Mays
My goal is to go eat at every restaurant in Austin! No????? Can’t happen?
Well….at the Austin Food + Festival you and I will have the chance to have a culinary experience at over 40 YES 40! of Texas’s Best Chefs and Restaurants all within the festival! And, the best part, we will get to see and talk to these amazing culinary geniuses all weekend long!
Austin Food + Wine Festival Announces Chef Showcase Schedule
Grand Taste Pavilion to Feature 40 of Texas’ Best Chefs and Restaurants
Here are a few things to dream and drool about!
*Easy Tiger will present a taste of a German beer garden tradition with our popular pretzels and our take on a Wurstsalat (sausage salad)
Jam and Biscuits Ya’ll !
*Confituras Little Kitchen will be showing off the locally sourced fruit and heritage grains we utilize at our jam & biscuit shop in South Austin to a wider audience!”
Featured Restaurants
Saturday you will be able to taste and experience unique samples from Geraldine’s, Old Thousand, Salt & Time, Jacoby’s, Grizzelda’s, Eberly, Foreign & Domestic, East Side King, Stiles Switch and BBQ & Brew, Poke Poke, Lonesome Dove, Easy Tiger, Confituras, Sway, The Peached Tortilla, Boiler Nine Bar + Grill, Mattie’s at Green Pastures, Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ, Ranch 616. Sunday get your taste buds ready for Southerleigh, Noble Sandwich Co., Aviary Wine and Kitchen, Justin’s Brasserie, Wu Chow, Fukumoto, Apis, Salty Sow, Botika, Olive & June, Forthright, Barlata, Guild, Pitchfork Pretty, Lick, Unit D Pizzeria, Tamale House East, Texas French Bread, Yuyo…..
Featured Chefs
Here’s a brief list of just a few of the chefs that have Austin the best culinary scene in the country!
Jeff Balfour, John Bates & Brandon Martinez, Thomas Calhoun,Taylor Chambers, Ji Peng Chen, Kazu Fukumoto,Taylor Hall, Geronimo Lopez, Harold Marmulstein,Brian Moses, Ashley Neave, Daniel Olivella, Maribel Rivero, Sterling Ridings …….
For details about the chefs and the restaurants: please go to Austin Food + Wine Festival
Ticket Information
The All-In ticket is $625/per person and includes Saturday and Sunday Festival access; over 40 culinary demos; beer, wine and cocktail tasting sessions; access to the expanded Fire Pits; all-day access to the Grand Taste Pavilion, including the Chef Showcase; a special Sunday Gospel Brunch; Grillin’ and Chillin’; and entrance to Saturday night’s Rock Your Taco.
The Weekender ticket is $250/per person and includes Saturday and Sunday Festival access; over 40 culinary demos; beer, wine and cocktail tasting sessions; access to the expanded Fire Pits; all-day access to the Grand Taste Pavilion, including the Chef Showcase; and a special Sunday Gospel Brunch.
All-In and Weekender tickets can be purchased at www.austinfoodandwinefestival.com/tickets. All attendees must be 21 years of age or older. For more information, please visitwww.austinfoodandwinefestival.com, or follow us on Instagram @austinfoodwine, Twitter @austinfoodwine and Facebook.com/austinfoodwine.
