Palm Desert: Roy Choi, top chefs lined up for 3-day food festival
If you’re hungry for some good food and meeting foodie luminaries, head east. Kogi food truck chef Roy Choi, Beekman Boys’ Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, and Manhattan Beach restaurateur David LeFevre are among the chefs who will be cooking at the Food + Wine Festival Palm Desert.
The festival, now in its fourth year, is March 21-23 and will feature two Grand Tasting events:
--”California Dreamin’,” with samples from more than 50 Coachella Valley restaurants and 70 wineries, brewers and spirit makers, and 10 demonstrations (11 a.m.-4 p.m. March 22).
--”Brunch, Bubbles and Brews,” with Champagne, sparkling wine and microbrew samples from the Coachella Valley, and cooking demonstrations. Choi will be signing copies of his cookbook memoir “L.A. Son” at this event too. (noon-5 p.m. March 23).
Tickets cost $75 a day for the event, which takes place inside a big tent at El Paseo shopping district.
For those who want an early start, the festival kicks off with a four-course James Beard Luncheon prepared by four chefs -- LeFevere, “Top Chef” Brooke Williamson, Matthew Accarrino of SPQR in San Francisco and pastry chef and author Gale Grand -- and served with hand-selected wines. It runs from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. March 21. Tickets cost $125 a person; guests must be 21 and older.
Check the full lineup and purchase tickets at the Food + Wine Festival website.
Mary.Forgione@latimes.com
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