Food & Wine Festival Ticket Watch

Why this is recommended

A grand tasting that sells out in an hour, a presale code for a chef dinner, a wine country release weekend with free tastings, a festival canceled with a refund deadline, or a hotel block that opens the day the lineup drops are each the trip or not the trip, and the dates are announced on festival pages nobody checks in January.

What the Tab covers

Who it is for

The 30 million Americans who plan a trip around eating, and everyone who missed the Aspen or Pebble Beach on-sale last year.

When it runs

Festivals announce lineups and open sales on weekday mornings and the big ones sell out in hours

Scope

Food & Wine Classic Aspen, Pebble Beach, South Beach, NYC Wine & Food, Charleston, Atlanta, Austin, Nashville, Chicago Gourmet, Pigs & Pinot, Memphis in May, Hot Luck, Great American Beer Festival, WhiskyFest, Bourbon & Beyond, Taste of Chicago, Taste Washington, Sonoma and Napa harvest events, Outstanding in the Field, James Beard and Michelin events; chef dinners, pop-ups and supper clubs; restaurant weeks; cancellations and refunds; hotel blocks; food halls and markets; TV tapings

Suggested task

The objective your Tab starts with. You can edit every line of it once the Tab is yours.

Ticket on-sales, presales, lineups and passes for the major food, wine, beer, spirits, barbecue and chef festivals, chef dinner and pop-up ticket releases, restaurant week and tasting event dates by metro, wine country harvest and release weekend events, festival cancellations and refunds, hotel block openings, VIP and grand tasting pricing, food hall and market openings, James Beard and Michelin event tickets and food TV taping and competition audience tickets, with the festival or event first and the on-sale time in the title.

Track food and drink events for US travelers. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days, or same-day for major on-sales: ticket on-sales, presales, lineups and pass pricing for Food & Wine Classic Aspen, Pebble Beach, South Beach, NYC Wine & Food, Charleston, Atlanta, Austin, Nashville, Chicago Gourmet, Pigs & Pinot, Memphis in May, Hot Luck, Great American Beer Festival, WhiskyFest, Bourbon & Beyond, Taste of Chicago, Taste Washington, Sonoma and Napa harvest and release events and other festivals with 5,000 or more attendees; chef dinner, pop-up and supper club ticket releases from nationally known chefs; restaurant week and tasting event dates in the 50 largest metros; festival cancellations and refund deadlines; hotel block openings; food hall and market openings; James Beard and Michelin event tickets; and food TV taping and competition audience tickets. Prefer festival and organizer pages, official ticketing partners, chef and restaurant announcements and established food reporting; ignore resale listings and unverified codes. Put the festival or event first in the title with the on-sale date and time. Use high severity for an on-sale within 72 hours for a festival that sells out, a cancellation with a refund deadline, or a free release weekend in a major wine region. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what is on sale, when, how to get it, the price, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.