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Get The Fork To San Diego For SoCal's Largest Foodie Event

November 12, 2009 at 9:04 AM | by | Comments (0)

Foodies will want to pack their tank tops and head west to the sixth annual San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival from November 18 to 22. Southern California's largest wine and food fest will feature culinary stars like James Beard Foundation Award winner for Best American Chef, Southwest, Alex Stratta of the two-star Michelin-rated ALEX at the Wynn Las Vegas; Cooking Light Magazine’s Executive Chef Billy Strynkowski; Peter Mondavi Jr. of Charles Krug winery; James Beard Foundation Award winner for Best Chef, Paul Bartolotta of Bartolotta at the Wynn Las Vegas, celebrity TV star Sam Zien of Sam the Cooking Guy.

The five-day festival will host more than 170 wineries, 70 fine-dining restaurants, gourmet food companies, wine-tasting seminars, celebrity artists, cooking classes by award-winning chefs and more. It's expected to draw 8,000 wine and food enthusiasts.

One of the highlights of the fest will be on November 20, when Mondavi Jr. will lead a Charles Krug Vertical Tasting that'll take you through various generations of the company's signature cabernet sauvignon. Also on November 20, The Oceanaire's Executive Chef Brian Malarkey, from season three's Top Chef, will host Savor The Flavor with Reality Chef Super Stars, a panel with TC alums Eli Kirshtein and CJ Jacobson. The granddaddy of all of the events will be the Grand Tasting Event on November 21. You'll get to gobble samples from more than 60 local chefs and taste some of the 700 wines alfresco at the Embarcadero Park North behind Seaport Village. During the Grand Tasting, top toques will compete in American Culinary Federation-certified Chef of the Fest contest.

Fest events will be held at various locations and are priced individually. See the festival website to buy tickets.

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[Photo: Matthew Meier/San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival]

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