Food and Beverage Events
- International Wine Festival
- Category: Food and Beverage Events
- Month: February
- Upcoming: TBA
- Description: Ranked #2 For 'Food & Restaurant Industry Events' In BizBash Washington's 'Top 100 Events' Fall 2008, the Washington Wine Festival is an event you just can't miss. Known as the largest indoor wine event in the Mid-Atlantic, the International Wine Festival in Washington DC features over 200 international wineries participate annually along with food vendors, and manufacturers of related lifestyle products and services.
- Admission: Check Website
- Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC
- Phone: 800-343-1174
- Website: www.wine-expos.com
- Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show
- Category: Food and Beverage Events, Trade Shows
- Month: November
- Upcoming: TBA
- Description: Come and see more than 200 exhibitors including specialty food companies, caterers, party planners, personal chefs, and kitchen planners at the Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show in Washington DC! There will also be an exciting line-up of special events, speakers, and demonstrations that will inspire even the most fledgling of home chefs and entertainers to start cooking and entertaining.
- Admission: Adults: $20 (in advance), $25 (on-site)
- Location: Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place Northwest Washington, DC
- Phone: 202-249-3000
- Website: www.metrocooking.com
- Mount Vernon's Wine Festival & Sunset Tour
- Category: Food and Beverage Events
- Month: May, October
- Upcoming: October 1st - 3rd, 2010
- Description: Come to Mount Vernon Estate to celebrate wine in Virginia! Enjoy mansion and cellar tours, live music, and wine samples from over 16 Virginia wineries. Candlelit Mansion tours include the rarely-seen Mansion cellar and appearances by George Washington. 16 award-winning Virginia wineries will be featured: AmRhein Wine Cellars, Barboursville Vineyards, Cardinal Point Vineyard & Winery, Chateau Morrisette, Corcoran Vineyards, DelFosse Vineyards & Winery, Fox Meadow Winery, Horton Vineyards, Ingleside Plantation Vineyards, Jefferson Vineyards, Keswick Vineyards, Prince Michel Vineyard & Winery, Rappahannock Cellars, Rockbridge Vineyard, Stone Mountain Vineyards, and Veramar Vineyard.
- Admission: $30 per person
- Location: Mount Vernon Estate, 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Mount Vernon, VA
- Phone: 703-780-2000
- Website: www.mountvernon.org/calendar/index.cfm/fuseaction/event/calI
- National Barbecue Battle
- Category: Food and Beverage Events
- Month: June
- Upcoming: June 26th and 27th, 2010
- Description: Celebrated annually the last weekend in June, Safeway's Barbecue Battle challenges the hottest barbecuing teams in the nation in a contest for the National Pork Barbecue Championship title and $40,000 in cash and prizes. The event includes more than 30 national and regional bands across three stages, with more festivities than you could shake a rib at. Also included are cooking demonstrations, free food samples, all kinds of interactive cooking opportunities, and lots of neat stuff for kids. The event benefits the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington's Metropolitan Police Club Houses.
- Admission: Check Website
- Phone: 202-828-3099
- Website: www.bbqdc.com
- Restaurant Week
- Category: Food and Beverage Events
- Month: January, August
- Upcoming: TBA
- Description: DC's Restaurant Week is a dining extravaganza where more than 170 of the capital's finest establishments offer fixed-price three-course meals. Restaurants include Contemporary American, Mexican, French, Mediterranean, Italian, Southern, Seafood, Spanish, California, Pan-Asian, and more. Early reservations are recommended. Be sure to confirm that the restaurant is participating in Restaurant Week, and also which meal that features the special, as some restaurants offer it at either lunch or dinner, but not both.
- Admission: Check Website
- Location: Various Restaurants, Check Website
- Website: www.washington.org/restaurantwk
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