Atlanta Meals & Wine Competition Returns with Taste, Aptitude, and a Aspect of Function

Mark your calendars and loosen your belts:
The Atlanta Meals & Wine Competition is again September 11–14, staking its declare as soon as once more in Historic Fourth Ward Park—and this yr, it’s exhibiting up with extra than simply the same old meals frenzy.

Sure, there’s an additional day of tasting tents.
Sure, the lineup continues to be below wraps.
And sure, you’ll wish to get tickets earlier than they disappear sooner than a smoked pork slider on a Saturday afternoon.

Right here’s what’s new (and what’s staying scrumptious):

🔹 Dates: September 11–14, 2025
🔹 Location: Historic Fourth Ward Park
🔹 Theme: “States of Movement”—a contemporary spin on how meals strikes by way of tales, cultures, generations, and communities
🔹 Additional Day Alert: For the primary time, the competition stretches throughout 4 full days, providing you with extra time to eat, sip, and roam

Competition Highlights:

🍷 Tasting Tents
Consider it because the competition’s beating coronary heart—now with 60+ cooks, mixologists, and winemakers from 13 Southern states.
You’ll pattern every thing from high-end hush puppies to road meals reimagined.
Come hungry, go away full—and possibly wishing for a second abdomen.

🍴 Curated Dinners & Chef Collabs:
Multi-course, ticketed occasions at intimate venues round city.
Count on daring flavors, memorable wine pairings, and not less than one course that makes everybody at your desk whisper, “Oh wow.”
(These are inclined to promote out early. Get on it now!)

👨‍🍳 Culinary Demo Stage:
Reside cooking demos meet Southern storytelling.
Catch your favourite cooks sharing secrets and techniques, throwing down skillet methods, and perhaps even burning one thing (hey, it occurs).
It’s messy, enjoyable, and completely value lingering for.

Giving Again (With out the Guilt Journey):

• Youngsters of Conservation: Your ticket helps fund faculty lunches and training for youths in Zambia.
• Occasion Zero Basis: New accomplice this yr—serving to the competition undertake extra sustainable occasion practices.

Principally: You eat. They be taught. The planet breathes simpler.

Tickets? They’re stay.

The complete chef lineup continues to be below wraps, but when historical past tells us something, this fest sells quick.
Seize yours at atlfoodandwinefestival.com and comply with the competition on Fb, Instagram, or TikTok for updates and teaser bites.

Professional ideas:

• Convey a blanket or low chairs when you plan to camp out on the tasting tents
• Put on comfortable footwear (and perhaps stretchy pants)
• Don’t include a stopwatch—include an urge for food

Whether or not you’re in it for the bites, the vibes, or the prospect to say “I knew them earlier than they have been on High Chef,” this yr’s AFWF is shaping as much as be one among its most flavorful but.