FIU family invited to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival®

It's time to Eat. Drink. Educate. on the sands of South Beach again and now you can do it at a discounted rate if you're part of the FIU family.

Widely recognized as one of America’s favorite gourmet gatherings on the beach, the Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival Presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF®) returns with new protocols dedicated to delivering a safe and comfortable event experience this Spring, May 20-23. 

The Festival will look and feel different this year, but the commitment is unchanged in support of its educational mission to cultivate the future leaders of the hospitality industry at the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Florida International University (FIU) and to aid the South Florida hospitality industry during the regrowth phase by giving participating chefs, bartenders and restaurateurs a platform to promote their businesses.

This year the festival marks its 20th Anniversary of FIU students helping to run this nationally recognized event and benefitting from it. Members of the university community receive a special family discount of 15 percent that applies to the following events:

• Thursday, May 20 – North Venue – Italian Bites on the Beach sponsored by Havas House, hosted by Giada De Laurentiis
• Friday, May 21 – Jungle Plaza – Croquetas & Craft Cocktails, hosted by Eileen Andrade and Gio Gutierrez
• Saturday, May 22 – Session 1: Goya Foods' Grand Tasting Village, featuring Grand Tasting Tents & Publix Culinary Demonstrations, sponsored by Sub-Zero Group Southeast 
• Saturday, May 22 – Session 2: Goya Foods' Grand Tasting Village, featuring Grand Tasting Tents & Publix Culinary Demonstrations, sponsored by Sub-Zero Group Southeast 
• Sunday, May 23 – Session 1: Goya Foods' Grand Tasting Village, featuring Grand Tasting Tents & Publix Culinary Demonstrations, sponsored by Sub-Zero Group Southeast 
• Sunday, May 23 – Session 2: Goya Foods' Grand Tasting Village featuring Grand Tasting Tents & Publix Culinary Demonstrations, sponsored by Sub-Zero Group Southeast 
• Sunday, May 23 – The Biltmore – Goya Foods' Swine & Wine, hosted by Robert Irvine and Fernando Desa 
• Sunday, May 23 – North Venue – BACARDI's Best of the Fest, hosted by Andrew Zimmern

The discount can be redeemed using one of the following promotional codes at checkout:

• fiuparent15
• fiustaff15
• fiualumni15 

The discount will have limited inventory for each event, so purchase sooner rather than later. The complete line-up of events for the 20th Annual Festival is available online at sobewff.org.

View the Festival’s full COVID-19 Health & Safety protocols.