Caviar 101 takes place from 7:30-8:00 p.m. the first Thursday and Friday during the month of June. Normally offered just the first Thursday of each month, in June students can participate in a Caviar 101 class either Thursday or Friday, June 2nd or 3rd. For $35 guests have the opportunity to sample up to the [...]

An afternoon of Food, Wine, Beer and Spirits in Beautiful Calabasas, California! 2pm – 6pm Your $150 ticket includes a special tasting of over 200 great wines, beers, spirits and delicious food, all while helping raise money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation. This years event Honors Barbara Lazaroff with a lifetime achievement award and gratitude [...]

From Friday, May 13 – Sunday, May 15, 2011, Royal/T—Culver City’s playful Japanese “cosplay” maid café, art exhibition space, and retail store—hosts Kulov’s Annual Tea Lovers Festival for three days of film, food, shopping, and special programming, all centered around the art and appreciation of tea. In its second year at the eclectic Japanese-inspired space, [...]

On Tuesday, May 3 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Beverly Hills’ iconic 25-year old dining destination—CHAYA Brasserie Beverly Hills—and acclaimed Japanese-French Executive Chef Harutaka Kishi (worked and trained under Joël Robuchon and Gordon Ramsay), will host California’s first LEED® Gold Certified winery—HALL Winery and winemaker Steve Leveque—for a special four-course winemaker dinner ($85 per [...]

Tickets are now on sale online for this fall’s star-studded, epicurean event and fundraiser, the American Wine & Food Festival, to be held September 25, on the Universal Studios Backlot. Tickets and event information are available at www.awff.org/tickets. The festival welcomes back Audi as a presenting sponsor, and announces premiere sponsors The Cosmopolitan of Las [...]

The “Taste of Beverly Hills,” presented by FOOD & WINE, will span the culinary talents of this rich and diverse city, from the Eastside and Downtown Los Angeles to the Westside and will offer foodies, music lovers and nightlife seekers alike an exciting and star-studded line-up. Guests will enjoy top musical artists, live bands, world-renowned [...]

Wally’s Wine & Spirits will host Wally’s 7th Annual Central Coast Wine and Food Celebration (WCCWFC), benefiting the Michael Bonaccorsi Scholarship Fund at UC Davis’ Department of Viticulture and Enology on Sunday, August 1, 2010, from 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. under the “Big Top” adjacent to the store. Wally’s popular summer afternoon tasting will [...]

You’re invited!  Aspiring “home” chefs in Los Angeles will have the opportunity to learn innovative cooking techniques, food and wine pairings, and creative menu ideas from top culinary experts. Known as the father of modern Southwestern cuisine, Chef John Rivera Sedlar of downtown L.A.’s Rivera Restaurant, will demonstrate his fine culinary techniques with Spanish–inspired and [...]

Gayle Hendrix This year I was lucky enough to attend The Master Chef Classic at Beaver Creek, Colorado for the fifth time. So, I can definitely say from experience that it only gets better every year. This was the second year that the Grand Tasting was held at the Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch and it is [...]

By Alex Palmer

New York is a city of delicious extravagance—the number of restaurants seem to outnumber the population, especially with how quickly spots open and close even before the recession started. So I jumped at the opportunity to check out the 11th annual New York Taste event, which brought together more than 40 chefs and [...]

By Bob Schriner After some much needed downtime, I was eager to head back to the Saturday night grand tasting. After what I had seen in the earlier tasting, I doubted I could sufficiently build enough of an appetite to take on a night of BBQ. When I walked back into the big tent I [...]

By Bob Schriner

There’s nothing like starting your day off with a walk around San Francisco. As I strolled the streets with a hot cup of coffee in my hand I witnessed the logistical hustle needed to get the city stocked to host away the weekend, there was such promise in the air. [...]

SF Chefs. Food. Wine. announces an extraordinary Culinary Dream Weekend in San Francisco during the not-to-be-missed food and wine festival debuting on August 6-9, 2009. Thousands of food and wine lovers will converge on San Francisco’s historic Union Square and The Westin St. Francis hotel over the weekend, where a who’s who of star chefs [...]

On Saturday September 27th, 2008, I decided to brush aside my neurotic fear of buffet style dinners and attend the legendary 26th Annual American Food & Wine Festival in the Universal Studios’ “Little Europe” back lot benefitting the Los Angeles chapter of Meals on Wheels. The evening started with a five minute tram ride that [...]