A high-profile food festival will host its first Charleston event this weekend. From the founders of a star-studded food festival in Colorado, the Food & Wine Classic in Charleston will take place Sept. 27-29.
Led by Food & Wine, Southern Living and Travel + Leisure magazines, and presented by Explore Charleston, the event is a spinoff of the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. The event was hosted in Colorado for the 41st time in June. A cornerstone of the Charleston weekend will be the Grand Tasting, hosted at the Charleston Visitor Center (375 Meeting St.
). That plus a slate of cooking demonstrations and seminars — held at the Charleston Gaillard Center (95 Calhoun St.), Emeline hotel (181 Church St.
) and Mills House Charleston hotel (115 Meeting St.) — are included in the $1,950 weekend pass. Tickets are still available online at foodandwineclassicincharleston.
com . Bring friends to this Charleston-area restaurant, where large-format Greek entrées star Al Roker, Andrew Zimmern, Maneet Chauhan, Tamron Hall, CJ McCollum and Wanda Mann are among the high-profile talent coming to Charleston for the new festival. Ticket holders can see Roker — from “The Today Show” — at a cooking seminar with his daughter from 3-4 p.
m. Sept. 28 at the Charleston Gaillard Center.
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