An Insider’s Information to Atlanta Meals & Wine Competition 2022

What do you get while you mix the proper fall weekend with a formidable lineup of high cooks, limitless tables of gourmand bites, scores of positive wine, artful cocktails, and leisure? The proper recipe for an additional knockout Atlanta Meals and Wine Competition!

Tie in your bib and loosen your belt; it’s time for town’s most epic meals and wine competition of the 12 months. From September 15-18, the best cooks of the South will descend to Atlanta for a four-day lengthy, culinary extravaganza like no different. Again for its eleventh 12 months, there’s a wide range of thrilling new occasions in retailer that may fulfill anybody’s palate. Undecided the place to begin? Listed below are a few of our high occasion picks and pro-tips to get your journey by way of this meals and booze wonderland began.

For these eager to keep away from the Tasting Tent crowds whereas nonetheless having fun with among the finest meals, drinks, and leisure, don’t miss out on AF&WF’s highly-anticipated, night occasions. Each hosted at Guardian Works, these food-filled events are positive to maintain your bellies full whereas dancing in your toes!

BONUS: No must deliver your wallets – all tickets are all-inclusive of limitless meals, wine, cocktails and extra.

SLICED: A Minimize of Atlanta’s Greatest Bites – Thursday, September fifteenth

To kick off competition weekend, don’t miss out on SLICED, a minimize of Atlanta’s finest bites served by the slice on Thursday, September 15, from 7PM-10PM. Deal with your self to a smorgasbord of slices created by among the metropolis’s hottest native cooks that will tantalize your style buds. From wood-fired pizzas, quiche, hen pot pie, truffles, sashimi, brisket, desserts, and all the pieces in between, there’s one thing to fulfill each palate!

CLUCK’D: A CHICKEN & COCKTAIL SOIRÉE – Friday, September sixteenth

Subsequent up, Cluck’d: a Rooster & Cocktail Soirée on Friday, September 16, from 7PM-10PM. Put together to take pleasure in a wide selection of the South’s finest birds paired with signature Southern cocktails at this decadent affair. Whether or not served roasted, battered, baked, barbecued, braised, or fried, you’ll get to get pleasure from traditional recipes and distinctive twists on everybody’s favourite chicken from practically 20 cooks. Collaborating expertise together with The Normal‘s Nick Leahy, Che Butter Jonez Malik Rhasaan, Seoul Chikin‘s Stephie Bender, and the Wing Suite‘s Kartisha Henry, will compete it out to for the very best dish of the night.

INTIMATE DINNERS:

Along with the bigger, stroll round tasting occasions, attendees also can dive into multi-course, intimate dinners led by among the high cooks. From James Beard awardees and nominees to up and coming expertise altering right this moment’s culinary panorama, these chef-driven affairs hosted throughout Atlanta are definitely to not be missed. New on this 12 months’s menu embody A Night time at The Americano with Celeb Chef Scott Conant and a shock visitor chef, Talat Market’s collaboration with Meals & Wine Journal’s 2021 Greatest New Chef’s Lucas Sin (Junzi Kitchen + Good Day), Straight From the Supply: A Veggie Ahead Soirée at Redbird with Chef Zen Stevenson, and American Delicacies with A Spanish Len with Cooks Josue Peña, Liron Eisenberg & Jon Sinecki at Iberian Pig: Buckhead. For the total line up of intimate dinners, go to atlfoodandwinefestival.com/intimatedinners.

TASTING TENTS: (Saturday, September 17-Sunday September 18 from 1PM-5PM)

From nice, Southern delicacies to revolutionary fusion dishes, probably the most sought-after wines and must-try craft cocktails, Atlanta Meals and Wine Competition’s signature tasting tents goals to please even probably the most finicky foodie. Returning to Historic Fourth Ward Park, attendees can discover regional flavors and traditions from dozens of eating places, artisan cooks, and producers whereas getting educated and entertained by their favourite celeb chef on the Publix Demonstration Stage.

PRO-TIP:

Take pleasure in tasting tents like a VIP with Early Entry tickets. Take a culinary highway journey across the South and pattern a few of the South’s finest eating places, cooks and mixologists with a particular hour preview earlier than doorways open to the broader public.

Don’t be tardy to the celebration and purchase your tickets earlier than they promote out! Tickets can be found at atlfoodandwinefestival.com