Wine & Food fest tickets go on sale
The latest update to the Broward component of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival is all about TV personality and fashion guru Carson Kressley hosting the Drag Brunch.
This will be Kressley’s first involvement with the SOBEWFF, which takes place Feb. 19-23, 2020. The brunch, where the crowd nibbles on dishes served at food stations while being entertained by female impersonators, will be Sunday, Feb. 23, starting at 11 a.m. at the W Fort Lauderdale.
Lee Schrager, the founder and executive director of SOBEWFF, adds that the star of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” was quick to accept the offer to appear in Fort Lauderdale.
“We just reached out to his people, and we got one of the quickest ‘yeses’ that we’ve ever had,” Schrager said. “It was like a two-day turnaround.”
Branded as the Crave/Greater Fort Lauderdale Series by SOBEWFF, other highlights include a series of dinners hosted by celebrity chefs and foodie movie screenings (details still being worked out).
Other famous faces being touted for appearances in Broward County include:
■ Jeff Mauro: winner of the seventh season in 2011 of the “Food Network Star” who went on to co-host “The Kitchen” and host “Sandwich King.” He is also a spokesman for Subway.
■ Cat Cora: Best known as the first female “Iron Chef ” and star of Food Network’s “Iron Chef America.”
■ Geoffrey Zakarian: Restaurateur (including Point Royal in Hollywood) and frequent judge on the Food Network’s “Chopped.”
■ Katie Lee: Cookbook author and the star of Food Network’s “The Kitchen” and the Cooking Channel’s “Beach Bites with Katie Lee.”
■ Michael Lomonaco: TV personality and chef at culinary hotspots Le Cirque, 21 Club, Windows on the World and his own Porter House Bar and Grill.
Palm Beach’s star power
The SOBEWFF will also extend its reach into Palm Beach County.
■ Martha Stewart, who has a winter home in Palm Beach, will co-host a dinner at the restaurant Buccan Palm
Beach with chefs Katie Button and Clay Conley.
■ Also Mauro Colagreco will give a dinner at his restaurant Florie’s in the
Four Seasons in Palm Beach. The Argentine-Italian chef ’s restaurant on the French Riviera, Mirazur, recently won the top spot on the list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2019.
How to get tickets
■ Tickets to CRAVE range from $125 to $225 and go on sale Monday, Oct. 28. To purchase or see a full schedule, go to SOBEWFF.org/event-type/crave-ftl.
■ Tickets to the Martha Stewart dinner at Buccan Palm Beach on Thursday, Feb. 20 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. are $375. To purchase, go to SOBEWFF.org/ buccan.
■ Tickets to the Mauro Colagreco dinner at Florie’s at Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach on Friday, Feb. 21 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. are $500. To purchase, go to SOBEWFF.org/fourseasons.
■ Tickets to the SOBEWFF in Miami range from $35 to $500. There are packages available from $255 to $2,585.48. To purchase, go to SOBEWFF.org/tickets.