Check Please!Arizona Festival 2103

Check Please!

Arizona Festival 2103

Here’s your great chance to taste samples from chef’s top dishes at Check, Please! Arizona Festival. This year’s event will be held at the CityScape- Downtown Phoenix.

With Check, Please! Arizona, you can experience some of the best and finest cuisine from more than twenty independently owned restaurants. This event was the most popular restaurant- review series from KAET Channel 8.

The event features a dining experience with host Robert McGrath and award- winning chef James Beard; cooking demonstrations; and a wine and beer pairings from participating breweries and wineries. It also gives a chance to all the fans to have an audition for a spot on the show.

General admission costs $60 with an inclusion of food, wine and beer sampling. VIP tickets are also available at $100 and include early entry to the festival 30-minutes before general admission, exclusive wine tastings, Access to Safeway Grill Stage, Wine, Craft Beer and Spirits Seminars, Access to all Chef Demonstration Stages, VIP valet parking, and a James Beard Award winners’ private chef seminar.

Some of the privately-owned restaurants that will participate on the event include MacAlpine’s Soda Fountain, Coup Des Tartes, America’s Taco Shop, Durant’s, Cornish Pasty Co., Thee Pitt’s Again, and Four Peaks.

Program Schedule:

Chef Demonstration Stage

12:00pm: James Porter- Petite Maison

1:00pm: Live Crawfish Boil with DJ of Tuck Shop

2:00pm: James Beard Award Winner Panel Discussion Hosted by Robert McGrath featuring Chris Bianco, Christopher Gross and Nobuo Fukuda

3:00pm: Jeremy Pacheco – LON’S at the Hermosa

VIP Area

1:00pm: Exclusive Wine Seminar- Christopher Gross- Christopher’s Crush

Wine Seminar Stage

12:00pm: Southern Wine & Spirits Seminar

3:00pm: Southern Wine & Spirits Seminar

Craft Beer and Spirits Stage

1:30pm: Craft Beer Seminar- Andy Ingram- Four Peaks Brewery

2:30pm: The Art of the Perfect Mixer- John Cavanagh- Tuck Shop

Safeway Grill Master Stage

11:45am: Brett Hoffman- Haus Murphy’s German Restaurant

12:30pm: Robert McGrath- Host of ‘Check, Please! Arizona’ and Market Street Kitchen 2:45pm: Eddie Matney- Eddie’s House

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