Saturday August  19, 2017 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Registration starts at 12:30

Gates Open 1:00

To Purchase Tickets: Please proceed to the PURCHASE TICKET TABLE. We accept Cash or Credit Cards.

Please consider purchasing your tickets on-line so you can proceed directly to the check-in table.

Printed or eTickets: We will scan your Ticket and your ID at the check-in table and present your wristbands for the Festival.

Will Call – If you misplaced your tickets please visit the Will-Call Desk. You must have an ID. If part of a group, please you’re your group leader as they can access your tickets.

 

YOU MUST PRESENT YOUR ID AND BE 21 YEARS OR OLDER TO RECEIVE AN ALCOHOL WRISTBAND. Not bringing your ID will allow you entrance into the festival but you will not be allowed to consume alcohol.

 

Use the AWFF17 festival app to plan your visit, rate your favorite vendors, tag friends and share your experience with other festival goers all weekend long!

 

SATURDAY August 19

 

Chef Highlight Series 

We continue the Chef Highlight Series.  This Chef Highlight Series involves the audience with our very talented regional chefs.  The Grand Tasting on August 19 will introduce guests to 4 more of the most honorable, as they give demonstrations of their renown gourmet dishes. This event is designed to give interaction and learning with eight highlighted chefs and four demonstrations daily throughout the festival. Keep up this season as these gourmet chefs provide information straight from their kitchens and careers. http://ashevillewineandfood.com/2017-chef-highlight-series-0

Saturday          1:30     Chef Kyle Allen of Mountain Madre  

Saturday          2:30     Chef Scott Ostrander of Red Stag Grill in the Grand Bohemian Hotel

Saturday          3:30     Chef Fernandes of Isa's                                                          

Saturday          4300    Chef Matthew Miner of Jargon

 

 

Meet The Authors

Join a host of culinary authors and take home treasurers that you will want to pass on to future generations.           

Susan Murray             Our Family Table: Recipes & Lessons From a Life Abroad

John Batchelor            Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina

Denise Barratt             Farm Fresh Nutrition: Eating Green & Clean. Supporting Your Local Economy

Susi Gott Seguret        Appalachian Appetite: Recipes from up and down the Appalachian chain

 

WINE COMPETITION

Here is your opportunity to know what wines to shop for and bring to your table and stock you cellar.

With more than 500 vineyards in North Carolina, new wineries are opening every day and there is a rapidly expanding interest in growing grapes and winemaking. Professional winemakers and their wineries brought over 100 wines and professional judges with the French Broad Vignerons’ put them to the test. In our 6th year, this competition is an excellent opportunity for commercial wines from North Carolina and the Appalachian region to be professionally evaluated. Judging takes place prior the Asheville Wine & Food Festival Grand Tasting and winning wines will be displayed at the French Broad Vigneron booth during the Grand Tasting. http://ashevillewineandfood.com/2017-festival-wine-competition

 

SATURDAY VENDORS/EXHIBITORS

 

 

Addison Farms Vineyards

 

Restaurant 17

 

Charleston Beverage Company

 

Oskar Blues Brewery

 

Covington Spirits

 

The Lobster Trap

 

Deep Creek Winery

 

Call Family Distillers

 

JOLO Winery and Vineyard

 

Cathead Distillery

 

Wine Me Co.

 

Jones vonDrehle Vineyards and Winery

 

Crude Bitters and Sodas

 

Hemmingway’s Cuba

 

Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards

 

Isa's Bistro

 

Railhouse Brewery

 

Sanctuary VIneyards

 

Red Stag Grill

 

Durham Distillery

 

Burntshirt Vineyard

 

Colorful Palate & True South Food

 

Batistini Farms

 

City Bakery

 

550 Tavern & Grille

 

Berry Brothers

 

Noni Bacca Winery

 

AAA Insurance

 

Thistle Meadow Winery

 

H&H Distillery

 

Waynesville Soda Jerks

 

Curly Tail Candied Bacon

 

The Swankey Beverage Tote Co.

 

Hickory Nut Gap Farm

 

Sallie's Greatest

 

Sweet's Syrup

 

Abby J's Gourmet & Southern Farm & Garden Magazine

 

Fisher Recycling

 

Native Vines Winery

 

Unicoi Preserves

 

Asheville Tea Company

 

Hood River Distillers

 

Bracey Vineyards

 

Midtown Mixes

 

KW Collards

 

MATI Energy

 

The Spice & Tea Exchange

 

The Wineyard

 

 

 

 

 

FIREWALKER Hot Sauce Company

 

Bruce Julian Heritage Foods

 

Dalton Distillery

 

 

 

 

AFTER THE FESTIVAL, WANDER ON DOWN TO..

Shindig on the Green  www.folkheritage.org/shindigonthegreen.htm

This is a free event. Bring your instruments, families, friends, lawn chairs and blankets and join us for good times at the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Stage. In 2017 Shindig on the Green, which features a stage show and informal jam sessions around the park, continues at its original location -- formerly known as City County Plaza, now transformed into the new Pack Square Park. Locals and visitors alike come together downtown “along about sundown,” or at 7:00pm for those who wear a watch, until 10:00p.m.

 

OR IF YOU ARE A LUCKY TICKET HOLDER IT IS ALMOST TIME FOR…

Sweet & Savory at the Renaissance Event Center just down North Lexington Ave and off the front porch of the Thomas Wolfe House. 6:00 PM