Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival Grand Tasting #PBFWF

I've smothered you with so many descriptions of food and wine tastings over the past two years that I'm sure it gets boring. Wait...no...how could food and wine ever be boring?! Pretend I didn't say that. What I meant was, you're probably just like...okay, another tasting, what could be different about this one? But I promise you, the caliber of restaurants at the Palm Beach Food and Wine Grand Tasting was incredible. There was so much variety, so many different types of restaurants, and the location was vastly different from any other that I've been to. 150 Worth is like a mecca of high-end retail shops and top-rated restaurants. It's outdoors, but doesn't really feel that way. It's hard to explain exactly how attractive an area it is, so you really just have to go see it for yourself.

I'm not even going to bother talking and skip right to the pictures. That's what you're here for anyway. The food. And believe me, there was plenty of it! I didn't get pictures of everything, so I'll show what I do have. The rest you'll just have to visualize for yourself! Here you go...the 7th Annual Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival Grand Tasting.

Top of the Point: Shrimp Scampi with Grilled Sweet Corn, Culantro, Queso Cotjia and Smoked Chili Lime Crema

3800 Ocean: Pumpkin whoopie pies, Coconut Macarons, Chocolate brownie cookie

 Whole Foods: Raw manchego and kale pesto with Imported meats on crostini

Citrus Grillhouse: Roasted tomato tart with herbed goat cheese, sambal vinaigrette, and sherry vinegar caramel

Sweet Loren's: Brookie (A chocolate chip cookie and brownie all in one!)

Palm Beach Grill:Heirloom tomatoes with candied walnuts, pickled beets, and burrata cheese

The Bazaar by Jose Andres: Grilled Butifarra Fabada: cannellini beans, culantro, habanero

Khong River House: Burmese Noodle Wrap: roasted dried red chili, peanuts, palm sugar and lemon juice, cilantro, sweet black soy sauce and sriracha wrapped in burmese-style noodles

Echo: Togarashi blackened scallop and coconut rice

3800 Ocean: Roasted Calabaza & apple soup with seared bay scallops and gougeres

Four Seasons, Jove: Seafood Stew

Not pictured: Creekstone Farms: "Duo of Beef" tenderloin tartar with shallots, capers and quail egg; coffee and porter braised short rib, sweet potato hash, parmesan thyme tuile Del Frisco's: Mini Ahi tuna tacos Eating House: Braised short ribs and smoked plantain puree Four Seasons, Jove: Tomato mozzarella in prosciutto broth, Tiramasu Jack's Grumpy Grouper: Perfect pulled pork with tropical slaw, Spiked lemonade HMF: Mojito royale, Signature candied cashews Meat Market: Brasied beef cheeks pasta, parmesan emulsion and sour cherry jus Norman Van Aken: Chili Palm Beach Grill: Home smoked salmon with "chef's dressing" and toast points, Banana cream pie The Sugar Monkey: Parisian macarons (pistachio with fresh raspberries), Dark chocolate brownie pops, Vanilla bean cupcakes Yardbird: Mama's Chicken Biscuits Swine: Country fried bacon on parkerhouse rolls with Tabasco honey and homemade dill pickles Ganache Bakery Cafe: Chocolate fudge cake pops, Eggnog creme brule Leila: Grilled chicken with hummus and roasted red peppers Nick & Johnnie's: Cauliflower frittar
PB Catch: Beef and Salmon tartar Pistache French Bistro: Pumpkin and gruyere gougeres red wine braised short ribs Shake Shack: Hamburger, Vanilla ice cream

Top 5 favorites of the night:
1) 3800 Ocean's Roasted Calabaza & Apple Soup with Seared Bay Scallops and Goureges
2) Khong River House's Burmese Noodle Wrap
3) Echo's Blackened Scallop over Coconut Rice
4) Citrus Grillhouse'sRoasted tomato tart with Herbed Goat Cheese, Sambal Vinaigrette, and Sherry Vinegar Caramel
5) Top of the Point's Shrimp Scampi with Grilled Sweet Corn, Culantro, Queso Cotjia and Smoked Chili Lime Crema
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