The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is one of the biggest culinary festivals in the world and 2025 has an unbeatable lineup of chefs.
A Miami food festival in February is the perfect warm-weather winter escape, and this year's South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) will be the biggest yet, with more than 65,000 guests expected to attend.
Taking place from February 20-23, 2025, the SOBEWFF features a guest list of more than 500 participating chefs and is a mashup of Michelin-starred fine-dining luminaries, Food Network stars, social media celebrities, and local Florida chefs and food artisans. With 105 events spread over four days, there's truly something for every palate, whether you're interested in barbecue or sushi, pastries or wine. Tickets are sold for each individual event, inclusive of all food and drink, so you can follow your favorite chefs and favorite foods to customize a weekend of indulgence.
Most of the main events take place within easy walking distance on South Beach, but as the festivities have grown over the more than two decades since Lee Brian Schrager founded SOBEWFF in 2002, you'll also find exclusive dinners on Fisher Island and an entire series of events, including a walk-around farmers' market brunch curated by Michael Schwartz, in the Miami Design District. There's definitely an element of FOMO with so many overlapping events, but it's nice to have a mix of larger walk-around tastings and more intimate sit-down dinners to choose from.
