What To Expect At The 10th Annual South Beach Seafood Festival This October

From October 19 to 22, South Beach Seafood Festival, a celebration of South Florida’s seafood bounty in collaboration with a number of the area’s main cooks and eating places, will likely be returning for its tenth anniversary, with an anticipated turnout of over 16,000 attendees.

The competition additionally kicks off Miami Seaside’s highly-anticipated stone crab season. Therefore on the primary evening, October 19, it opens with “An Night at Joe’s Stone Crab,” a five-course dinner by longtime government chef Andre Bienvenu on the restaurant’s non-public eating, Jesse’s Room, the place the late Al Capone and Frank Sinatra sat and dined.

On October 20, Crabs, Slabs & Cabs will happen on the Kimpton Surfcomber South Seaside’s Excessive Tide Seaside Bar and Grill. A five-course dinner will likely be ready by Pubbelly Sushi associate José Mendín, Fiola Miami’s government chef Danny Ganem, Meat Market proprietor and government chef Sean Brasel, and occasion host Goya Meals’ government chef Fernando Desa.

On October 21, 16 of Miami’s prime cooks will participate within the Chef Showdown competitors at Lummus Park. Collaborating cooks will host ‘battle pavilions’ whereby visitors are invited to pattern dishes and vote for his or her favorites, earlier than persevering with onto the principle stage for reside demos which may have representatives from the culinary and media industries as judges. Every ‘battle’ or spherical may have a winner, and this yr, an general MVP will likely be chosen to take dwelling a prize of $10,000. Earlier winners returning to defend their titles embody: Bodega Taqueria y Tequila’s Jorge Ramos (Battle Taco), Beaker & Grey’s Brian Nasajon (Battle Crab), Rusty Pelican’s Jim Pastor (Battle Surf N’ Turf), Kosushi’s Shoyo Ido (Battle Sushi), Mercado Della Pescharia’s Alex Martinez (Oshen Battle Salmon), JRK!’s Wayne Sharpe (Battle Shrimp), and Uchi Miami’s Cristian Canencio (Battle Oyster).

The principle occasion is a full day affair on October 22, spanning 4 blocks on the sands of South Seaside, ranging from Ocean Drive and 14th Road. There will likely be restaurant pop-ups, all-day open bars, reside music levels, interactive sponsor experiences and seashore video games. Earlier years have seen pop-ups from Joe’s Stone Crab, RED South Seaside, The Lobster Shack, Pubbelly Sushi, Ella’s Oyster Bar, Tacos and Tattoos, Stiltsville Fish Bar, with over 70 menu gadgets to select from, together with stone crabs, lobster waffle cones, steak and lobster skewers, ceviche, oysters, shrimp tacos, and shrimp cocktails. As well as, VIP ticket holders will acquire entry to a one-and-a-half block non-public village with unique experiences and personal samplings.

For extra data and to buy tickets to the ten^th South Seaside Seafood Pageant, go to sobeseafoodfest.com. A part of the proceeds from the competition will profit CI Basis’s EAT SMART program, a program that gives wholesome meals and dietary steerage to Florida’s youth.