Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival Returns For 9th Year With Star Studded Lineup Of Events This August 22-25

August 11, 2019

The Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival is ramping up for its ninth rendition, taking over our neighboring metropolis to the north this August 22-25 with a star-studded lineup of events including special dinners, a burger throwdown, a culinary showcase and much more.

At this year's LA Food & Wine, festival-goers will rub shoulders with some of the nation’s hottest chefs during a four-day epicurean extravaganza, with events spanning the City of Angels. Among the culinary supernovas on the festival marquee are the legendary Jeremiah Tower (The Last Magnificent), native Angelenos Nancy Silverton, Jet Tila and Alvin Cailan, as well as several celebrity chefs who have made the city their own, like Curtis Stone, Tim Hollingsworth and Antonia Lofaso. The festival will also showcase wines from across California and the world. 

Los Angeles Food & Wine launches Thursday evening, August 22, with a series of dinners at restaurants across the city. The action then shifts to the historic Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport, one of LA’s premier event spaces, for the rest of the weekend. Among the 14 culinary star-studded events are The Legends Dinner at Chi SPACCA where the widely credited father of California cuisine Jeremiah Tower joins queen of the Mozza-Plex Nancy Silverton at her white-hot Chi SPACCA. This epic, one-night-only pairing promises a lifetime of bragging rights to the 40 festival-goers fortunate enough to snag a ticket. 

There is also the Dinner at Otium where fans of Netflix’s The Final Table can pull up a chair to watch 2018 season winner Tim Hollingsworth share the spotlight with rising star San Diego chef Travis Swikard at Hollingsworth’s downtown masterpiece, The Broad museum-adjacent Otium. There is also The Epic Burger Throwdown with Alvin Cailan. In a city known for great burgers, the best are going bun to bun to win the coveted LAFW Golden Burger Show Trophy. Host Alvin Cailan of Eggslut fame and star of YouTube’s The Burger Show, will join celebrity judges Seth Rogen, Tiffani Thiessen and Adam Richman in this juicy battle of the beef. 

Another highlights of the long weekend is LA’s Faves & Craves. In one short stroll, festival-goers can take in the breathtaking diversity of L.A.’s culinary landscape as the city’s own Jet Tila hosts a showcase of the most crave-worthy dishes of 25 local chefs. L.A’s finest tacos, pizza, hot dogs, donuts, fried chicken and a wealth of Asian-inspired specialties will all share one location for one afternoon only. There is also Meat Me at LAFW’s Great Steak-out & BBQ, where meat master Curtis Stone of Gwen Butcher Shop & Restaurant and 25 other great tamers of the flame are bringing their A+ game to LAFW. Surf, sides, caviar and Big Cabs will complement the slabs at this event evoking the nation’s greatest steakhouses and BBQ joints. Closing out the weekend is Sunday Brunch So Hard where those lucky enough to score one of the very limited VIP tickets to LAFW’s grand finale enjoy rare pre-event access to Jeremiah Tower, the illustrious self-taught chef dubbed The Last Magnificent by the late Anthony Bourdain. Standard tickets are anything but shabby, too, at the culinary legend’s brunch-to-end-all-brunches.

Tickets to the Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival are available online. For more information, visit lafw.com.