The South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) is a five-day national Festival For "Foodies"

Goya's Executive Chef Fernando Desa with Richard Ingraham, Personal Chef to

Dwayne Wade, at Goya's Fun & Fit event during SOBEWFF 2018

​Local Goya Partner Chef Jose Mendin with Goya's Executive Chef Fernando Desa, 

cooking away at GOYA's GRAND TASTING VILLAGE during SOBEWFF 2018

Goya's Partner Chef Richard Ingraham, Personal Chef to Dwayne Wade, teaching the little ones to cook at Goya's Fun & Fit event in SOBEWFF 2018
Photos Courtesy of Goya
SOBEWFF: A Festival For "Foodies" Right in Our Back YardThe South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) is a five-day national Festival For "Foodies" right in our back yard,  which unveils the talents of the most outstanding Celebrity chefs and culinary personalities in the country. This, event which ran from February 21 to 25, 2018, took place in 85 different events throughout the city and had more than 65,000 participants. 

It also included some amazing local chefs, Celebrities in their own right, in our backyard, including: Partner Chef Richard Plasencia Executive Chef & Owner of the Twisted Fork Kitchen, and Partner Chef Jean Delgado, Executive Chef of The InterContinental Hotel Miami as well as Richard Ingraham, Personal Chef to Dwayne Wade and Ambassador of the National Pork Board who served as Judge of the National Pork Board's Judge Choice Awards at SWINE & WINE, one of the main SOBEWFF closing events at the Biltmore Hotel. Our local chefs rocked at SOBEWFF 2018!

TACOS AFTER DARK (at The Loews Hotel sponsored by The National Pork Board):

Partner Chef to National Pork Board, Chef Jean Delgado, prepared out of the box, exquiste taco delights with pork to a full house poolside at the Loews Hotel 

BURGER BASH (Burger Competition in South Beach)

Partner Chef to National Pork Board, Chef Richard Plasencia, prepared the only Pork Belly Hamburger in this heated burger competition where the best chefs battled it out for "Top Burger" prize!

SWINE & WINE  (at the Biltmore Hotel)

Some of the best local chefs faced off in a heated competition for best Pork dish. The selective Panel of judges included: Julie Maschhoff, co-owner of The Maschhoffs, one of the largest Pork Producers in the coutry, as well as National Pork Board Ambassador and celebrity chef, Richard Ingraham, personal chef to Dwayne Wade, Executive Chef of Goya Foods, Fernando Desa and Eddie Zamora of The Yum Yum Foodie online fame.

Other events also included some other local Celebrity chefs, including:   Executive Chef, Fernando Desa of Goya, Richard Ingraham, Personal Chef to Dwayne Wade, Jose Mendin, Executive Chef of the Comma Hospitality group (Pubbelly), and Sean Brasel, Executive Chef of Meat Market