The 2019 USA Today Wine & Food Experience, a 10-city national epicurean tour, will make its Los Angeles stop on Saturday November 9, 1:00pm – 4:00 pm at LA Center Studios to host a grand tasting with fine food, wine, craft beer and spirits from local and national chefs.
VIP ticket holders get to enter an hour earlier, at 12:00 noon.
Participating chefs include Santa Monica chefs Border Grill, Chefs Susan Feniger & Mary Sue Milliken, and Herringbone Santa Monica, Chef Nicholas Cataldo along with a list of other notables that includes: Café Del Rey Chef Job Carder; CJ Boyd’s Fried Chicken Chef Timothy Hollingsworth, Castaway Restaurant & Events Center Chef Perry Pollaci, Cattle & Claw Chef Pete Manfredini; chocMe and Cielo Steakhouse at Morongo Casino Resort and Spa Chef Steven Agosto; Fig & Olive Chef Brent, Free Play Chef Timothy Hollingsworth; Gracias Madre Chef Alan Sanz; Ike’s Love & Sandwiches Chef Ike Shehadeh; Inko Nito Chef Randolfo Vaz; Jane Q Chef Bryan Podgorski; Kreation Organic Chef Marjan Sarshar; La Boheme Chef Atsushi Kenjo; Larder Baking Co. Chef Nathan DakDouk; Le Grand Chef Alex Manos; Lovely Eats Chef Lovely; Miro Chef Andy Ramos; Mrs. Fish Chef Yoshi Matsumoto; Otium, Chef Timothy Hollingsworth; Parks BBQ Chef Jenee Kim; Shuck House Seafood and Oyster Bar Chef Cindy Loren (VIP only); Sixth & Mill and Terranea Resort Chef Bernard Ibarra; The Bazaar by José Andrés Chef Holly Jivin; The Farm of Beverly Hills Chef David Hernandez; The Pie Hole Chef Sean Brennan; The Rooftop Grill Chef Yolanda Guerrero; and We Have Noodles Chef Darren Sayphraraj.
Wine, beer & spirits participants include Ascension Cellars, Baker Family Wines, Barrel 33 Big Bear, Bass Note Sangria, Chianti Services Imports, Frisco Cellars, Joya Sangria, Millésimé Cellars, Navarro Vineyards, Obvious Wines, Oceans Churning Wine, Quintessential, Schlossadler International Wines, Vina Sympatica Sparkling Wines, Vinemark Cellars, Angel City Brewing, Firestone Brewing, High Point Brewery, Leashless Brewing, and the The Martha Stewart Brand.
The event also includes a schedule of demonstrations on The Culinary Stage as well as wine and spirits seminars at The Cellar that are open to all.
Additional special ticketed events include Chef Sessions featuring informal presentations, Q&As, meet & greets, book signings, photo ops, and autographs with culinary personalities. They include Chef Scott Conant of Food Network’s Chopped; Wine & Food Connoisseur Antoni Porowski of Netflix’s Queer Eye and author of Antoni in the Kitchen; The Bella Twins, co-founders of Belle Radici Wines; and wine expert and Master Sommelier Ian Cauble of Faith & Flower in Los Angeles and Michelin-starred Quince San Francisco, who is recognized as among 274 Master Sommeliers in the world, and featured in the Netflix cult classic Somm.
For more information and tickets, please visit https://wineandfood.usatoday.com/tickets/los-angeles