The list of chefs at the 2024 Austin Food and Wine Festival is here

The Austin Food & Wine Festival has announced its provisional chefs for 2024. The city’s largest food event includes three days of eating and drinking festivities taking place this fall from Friday, November 1 to Sunday, November 3 at Auditorium Shores in Bouldin Creek.

Particularly interesting during the main festival program are the fans of the popular restaurant television series The bear. Chef Courtney Storer, the show’s producer, will host a cooking demonstration where the panelists cook and chat in front of an audience. For the show, she is the one who trained the actors in cooking and food preparation and also prepared all of the food herself. (Her brother, Christopher Storer, created the show.) The Chicago-raised personal chef also runs the Los Angeles-based catering company Coco’s to Go-Go.

Newcomers to Austin Food & Wine’s lineup include New York-based modern Chinese restaurant RedFarm with its Austin location represented by chef Joe Ng, new modern Italian-American restaurant Casa Bianca with chef Joseph Zoccoli, and Austin ice cream parlor Amy’s. Downtown Austin’s W hotel will showcase bites from its upcoming restaurant renovation project Serenade, which describes itself as American-French-Texan, by chef Johnny Ray.

A table with chips and vegetables in cardboard boats. — Dishes at the Made in Texas event at Austin Food & Wine in 2023.

Otherwise, this year’s edition generally holds no major surprises. The only small change is that last year’s first VIP-only Made in Texas event – where participating chefs cook up signature Texas dishes – will be held at a new location. Instead of a different location in the Auditorium Shores, it will be held on the terrace of the Long Center.

Below are the tentative chef lineups for all Austin Food & Wine events. This includes the main cooking show and fire pits on the festival grounds, as well as the Made in Texas event. Plans are in place to announce additional chefs later. The entire festival is organized by Food Magazine. gastronomy and Austin-based event production company C3 (which is behind the Austin City Limits Music Festival, among other things).

Currently, two-day weekend passes are available for $270, day passes for $195, and VIP passes (which include the Made in Texas event) for $750. Tim Love’s regular barbecue event is already sold out.

Austin Food & Wine Festival Fire Pits*

San Antonio-based Nicola Blaque, winner of Eater’s 2019 Best New Restaurants award, is Caribbean restaurant The Jerk Shack
Alison Clem from Austin-based grill restaurant La Barbecue
Jason Dady from San Antonio from the restaurant group of the same name
Houston native Levi Goode of live fire restaurant Credence
Jess Kuykendall of the Latin American hotel restaurant Ocho and the Tex-Mex restaurant Milpa in San Antonio
Geronimo Lopez from the Chinese-Japanese-Peruvian restaurant Botika in San Antonio

*takes place on the main festival site from Saturday, November 2nd to Sunday, November 3rd

A festival site with tents and a city skyline in the background. — The main site of Austin Food & Wine in 2023.

Austin Food & Wine Festival Chef Showcase*

*takes place on the main festival site from Saturday, November 2nd to Sunday, November 3rd

Laila Bazahm from Austin from the Spanish tapas restaurant El Raval
Daniel Berg from Bill’s Oyster seafood restaurant in Austin
Barrett Black from Texas, the Texas barbecue mini-chain Black’s BBQ
Austin-based Daniel Brooks of Mexican restaurant Licha’s Cantina and Oaxacan restaurant Chapulín Cantina
Raul Castillo from the new American restaurant Honey Moon Spirit Lounge in Austin
Ji Peng Chen of modern Chinese restaurant Wu Chow in Austin
Shawn Cirkiel of Austin-based restaurant group Parkside Projects
Krystal Craig and Ian Thurwatcher of Italian restaurant Intero and Italian hotel cafe Poeta in Austin
Edgar Cuspinera from Austin from the new American restaurant Swift’s Attic
Kévin D’Andrea from the Austin-based bakery Foliepops; he was also a contestant in season 21 of Top chef)
Roberto Espinosa of the Austin-based taco chain Tacodeli
Liz Everett and Stephanie Everett Martin of Austin from Mexican seafood truck Ensenada ATX
Jessica Galindo-Winters from Austin from Mexican restaurant Cruzteca
Paolo Gama from the Verbena hotel restaurant in Austin
Austin chef Joseph Gomez of Eater Award-winning taco truck Con Todo

Cardboard boats with noodles on a table. — Pasta dishes at Austin Food & Wine in 2023.

Tyler Guerriero from Texas restaurant Lonesome Dove in Austin
Amir Hajimaleki from Austin with the new American restaurants District Kitchen and Oasthouse, the seafood restaurant Keepers, the pizzeria and sandwich bar Shortie’s, the new cocktail bar Daisy Lounge and the Persian pop-up restaurant Roya
Sarah Heard and Nathan Lemley of Austin’s New American restaurant Foreign & Domestic and Lockhart-based restaurant Commerce Café
Andrea Juarez from Austin-based deli and restaurant Walton’s Fancy & Staple
Austin chef Dimitrios Kelesoglou of Greek restaurant Yamas; Austin
Enma Lopez from Austin from Austin Beerworks Brewery, Food Truck ABW Can-Tina
Anne Ng and Jeremy Mandrell from the French-inspired mini-bakery chain Bakery Lorraine in San Antonio
Corey McEntyre of the southern restaurant Milo in Waco
Jason McVearry from Austin from Hawaiian spot Poke Poke
Joe Ng from Austin from the modern Chinese restaurant RedFarm in New York, Austin location
Alan Paryzek of Central Machine Works Brewery in Austin
Nicole Patel of Austin-based chocolate shop Delysia
Mike Perez from Austin, barbecue and Asian restaurant Loro
Pedro Quevedo from Austin and Alex Swenson from the ice cream chain Gelato Paradiso in Austin
Paul Qui, Moto Utsunomiya and Danny Rodriguez of Austin-based Asian fast-casual restaurant East Side King)
Johnny Ray from Austin from the future hotel restaurant Serenade

A wine tasting with several glasses of red wine on a paper plate. — A wine tasting at the Austin Food & Wine Festival in 2023.

Ryan Samson from Italian restaurant Vespaio in Austin
Sarah Seghi from Austin from the new American restaurant Eberly
Eric Silverstein from Austin from the South Asian restaurant “Peached Tortilla”
Amy Simmons of Austin from frozen candy chain Amy’s Ice Cream
Kevin Taylor of Austin’s Mexican restaurant Bulevar
Davis Turner of Austin-based seafood truck Huckleberry
Austin chef Nic Yanes of Italian restaurant Juniper, Italian cafe Uncle Nicky’s, mini golf restaurant Dirdie Birdie and New York-style Murray’s Tavern
Kristina Zhao of San Antonio-based Sichuan restaurant Dashi Sichuan Kitchen and Bar;
Joseph Zoccoli from Austin of Italian-American restaurant Casa Bianca

Cooking demonstrations at the Austin Food & Wine Festival*

Kevin Gillespie of the Atlanta-based Red Beard Restaurants group
Antonia Lofaso from Los Angeles from the Latin Lounge Dama and the Italian restaurant Scopa Italian Roots
Edgar Rico from Austin from Mexican restaurant Nixta Taqueria
Ashleigh Shanti of Good Hot Fish in Asheville
Amanda Turner from Austin of the Southern restaurant Olamaie; she was also a contestant in season 21 of Top chef
Claudette Zepeda of San Diego of the Chispa Hospitality restaurant group
Courtney Storer from Los Angeles The bear and catering company Coco’s To Go Go

*takes place on the main festival site from Saturday, November 2nd to Sunday, November 3rd

Food by Dusana Risovic for the Austin Food and Wine Festival 2023_DR104800

Made in Texas*

Kevin Gillespie (see above)
Antonia Lofaso (see above)
Ashleigh Shanti (see above)
Amanda Turner (see above)
Claudette Zepeda (see above)
Tyson Cole of Austin-based Japanese restaurant group Hai Hospitality
Diego Galicia and Rico Torres from San Antonio-based Mexican tasting menu restaurant Mixtli
Evelyn Garcia and Henry Lu from Houston-based pan-Asian restaurant Jūn
Chef Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin of San Antonio Chinese restaurant Best Quality Daughter
Mexico City-based chefs Jonatan Gómez Luna Torres and Mikel Alonso represent their Mexican restaurant Mexta in Austin
Austin chef Chris Krisnky of award-winning Japanese-Mexican restaurant Ramen del Barrio
Rebecca Masson of Houston-based Fluff Bake Bar bakery
Austin’s Berty Richter of Mediterranean restaurant Ezov