The Annual Celebration Exotic Car Festival is back for it’s 10th year and will be having its culinary celebration once again with the Food & Wine at Portofino. This will be the second year for the festival’s food and wine event at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando on April 13, 2013. More [...]

The South Beach Wine and Food Festival kicked off the 2013 event weekend with Moët Hennessy’s “The Q” hosted by Paula Deen. The evening event featured live entertainment with wine and spirits from the Moët Hennessy portfolio, along with small plates from several Food Network chefs, celebrity chefs, and local Florida chefs. Attendees had a [...]

I just wanted to give a quick update about some upcoming event coverage from the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival. I’ve been in Miami’s South Beach during the past weekend, attending events and taking many photos of food, wine, chef, and food personalities. I will be posting a recap from the events [...]

The 2nd Annual Cows ‘N Cabs event was held in Winter Park, FL last month and was part of The Winter Park Food & Wine Classic. This food-and-wine walk around raises money for charities, with 100 percent of proceeds from ticket sales and auction items to benefit the Community Food & Outreach Center and Coalition [...]

Taste of the Nation Orlando 2012 took place last Saturday, August 25th at the Orlando World Center Marriott. It was my first time attending this culinary & fundraising event, with 100% of ticket sales supporting Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger. The evening was full of delectable bites from 37 restaurants from around [...]

Whole Foods Market in Phillips Crossing hosted it’s “Fill The Grill Challenge” for 3 weeks in July. The challenge featured chefs from four local food trucks in the Orlando area, where they had a $20 budget, with 20 minutes to shop and then 20 minutes to cook. The chefs chose their own ingredients and were [...]

The summer heat is here and it is time for a Cook-Off series. Food truck cuisine is one of the hottest trends around the country and it has been elevated with many classically trained chefs creating culinary masterpieces in their mobile kitchens. Watch four Orlando food truck chefs battle it out in the “Fill the [...]

Food, wine, and exotic cars. An exciting combination for the culinary evening and part of the Annual Celebration Exotic Car Festival. This year’s Food & Wine at Portofino was a new location to the yearly event. The move to an outdoors event turned out to be a beautiful scenery in the courtyard of the Loews [...]

* Updated April 4, 2012 with ticket giveaway, see below for details! Food and cars have always been two passions of mine. The combination of both in one event is a dream come true. Before food blogging, I was heavily involved in the automobile events industry. Now that the culinary world has taken over my [...]

Recently I was invited to take a tour with fellow food bloggers at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Orlando, FL. The invitation also included a dinner at their Technique Restaurant. This was the first time this college had a group of food bloggers to tour the school at the Orlando campus. The [...]

Food, Planes, and Automobiles was the scene at the Jetport Food and Wine Party 2011. The event was hosted by the Bocuse d’Or USA Foundation which is led by renowned chefs Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller and Jerome Bocuse. The event took place at a private jet hangar at Kissimmee Gateway Airport, which was “transformed into [...]