The Heart of the Festival!
On Friday afternoon the heart and soul of the BB&T Charleston Food + Wine Festival experience, the Culinary Village officially opens. The hub of the Festival, the Culinary Village is anchored by two Grand Tasting Tents sponsered by The Charleston Club at Daniel Island and FedEx.
The Charleston Club at Daniel Island and FedEx present Culinary Village + Grand Tasting Tents
With your Culinary Village + Grand Tasting Tent Ticket you receive entrance into the following areas:
- • Grand Tasting Tents (both tents) – ALL DAY ACCESS, EXCEPT for Saturday ticket holders who must select a specific time to enter these tents.
- • BB&T Hospitality Tent – ALL DAY ACCESS
- • SCE&G's Celebrity Kitchen Cooking Demos AND Outdoor Living Area – ALL DAY ACCESS
- • Charleston Cooks! Author Book Signing Tent – ALL DAY ACCESS
- • Certified SC Grown Cooking Competition (SATURDAY ONLY! – ALL DAY ACCESS)
Two Grand Tasting Tents sponsored by The Charleston Club at Daniel Island and FedEx host more than seventy companies featuring samples of specialty foods and unique wines. Inside the tents, guest can taste a variety of foods and beverages from each of the featured companies as they learn about hot new trends and products. (Saturday ticket holders must select ticket time to enter these tents.)
BB&T Hospitality Tent features the award winning Childress Wines, poured by Mark Friszolowski, recently named one of the top 25 tasting rooms in America. Come by for the wine tastings, relaxation and don't miss Bobby Flay's book signing on Saturday afternoon from 12–1PM!
SCE&G's Celebrity Kitchen Tent where cooking is better with natural gas. Award-winning national chefs and authors offer lively demonstrations, which will make your mouth water. On Friday and Saturday, celebrity chef Sara Moultan, Gourmet Magazine, will MC the demonstrations and on Sunday, Marvin Woods will serve as MC. Seating inside the "kitchen" tent is on a first-come basis and no food is served. Outside the tent you can relax in the SCE&G Outdoor Living area, while meeting the chefs and sampling special tastings from the natural gas grill. Natural Gas, Making Eveyday Life Better.
Charleston Cooks! Book Signing Tent is where guests meet the Food + Wine Festival's featured culinary professionals and have their cookbook purchases personalized.
The temperature heats up with an electrifying Iron-Chef style competition inside the Main Tent on Saturday during the Certified SC Grown Cooking Competition. MC for the competition is Top Chef's Richard Blais. Local chefs face off against national chefs in a high-intensity competition where audience members decide the winner as the mystery ingredient is unveiled!
