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Palm Beach, Florida: The Unlikely Star Of The Luxury Food And Wine Festival Circuit
14.01.2024 - 15:21 / forbes.com / Daniel Boulud
Palm Beach features many of the world’s usual luxury tourism bullet points: 5-star resorts, golf courses, fine dining with oceanfront views. While spectacular, these amenities are hardly unique to the 47 miles of coastline north of Miami.
What sets Palm Beach apart is the small-town spirit at the heart of its big-name events, like The Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, which returned for its 16th iteration Dec. 7-10 with Wine Spectator . High-end vintners, celebrity chefs, gourmet gastronomy, and idyllic settings made the four-day event a mandatory stop for locals and luxury tourists alike.
It is said in Hollywood that a leading man is only as strong as its leading lady. Palm Beach, long fertile ground for billionaires, now has its leading lady in the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival. It isn’t the largest festival of its kind in Florida — the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in February features a slew of corporate sponsors, late-night parties, even yoga classes — but it’s the best. The Palm Beach version is clearly curated for those more interested in food, wine, and the people behind it. It’s smaller, more accessible, curated, and the temperament is more casual.
“You can’t compare the two,” said chef Robert Irvine, a headliner among the featured participants. “South Beach Food & Wine, there’s 300,000 people who come in, pay the money, do the Burger Bash, and it’s a great event ― but it’s not like this. This is very special because you’re 1-on-1 with chefs that you know and you see on TV. West Palm Beach is a very unique food and wine festival. Chefs get to play volleyball, they get to meet each other, they get to hang. You don’t do that in South Beach, you don’t do that in Disney, you don’t do that in Aspen.”
To wit: Day 1 featured An Evening with Irvine. The restaurateur, Food Network host, and creator of everything from an eponymous nutrition bar to luxury spirits co-hosted a walk-around tasting at the Okeechobee Prime Event Hall. Naturally, Irvine’s Spirits were prominently featured in Palm Beach.
Day 2 featured a four-course seated lunch with wine pairings at the Avocado Grill. Owner Julien Gremaud is not a national celebrity, but an award-winning local chef who recently opened his third restaurant (Pink Steak) in Palm Beach County. The intimate nature of the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival allows visiting gourmands to compare notes with local chefs on their home turf.
“The chefs that come here … people keep coming back,” Gremaud said. “Chefs really get to know each other. Every year it’s a party.”
In addition to Irvine, the event’s notable chefs included Daniel Boulud, Antonia Lofaso, Stephanie Izard, Michelle Bernstein, and Maneet Chauhan.
When the food and wine does not take center stage, the
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