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Relive the Action From Atlanta Food & Wine Festival 2016

The event took place over the weekend in Midtown

by Chris Fuhrmeister
Photography by Jonathan Phillips
  • Chefs make food for the masses at the tasting tents in Piedmont Park during the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival on Sunday.
  • Kevin Gillespie (right) laughs with Kevin Rathbun before Sunday brunch during the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival.
  • Chef Kevin Rathbun prepares his beef in a dude rag for Sunday brunch
  • Sunday brunch wouldn't be complete without plenty of champagne.
  • Revolution Doughnuts was one of many local vendors to serve during the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival.
  • The Charlie Wooton Project plays during Sunday brunch.
  • Waiting for a meal is a little easier with a morning cocktail.
  • The ubiquitous bloody Mary bar.
  • Sunday brunch in the works on the final day of the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival.
  • Blueberry-topped mini pancakes.
  • Nashville-style "hot quail" with a jalapeno-cheddar biscuit and dill pickles.
  • The crew from Delia's Chicken Sausage Stand putting in work on Sunday morning.
  • Chef Kevin Gillespie explains the rules of brunch.
  • A small sample of the bites and drinks available during the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival.
  • Colletta chef Michael Perez offers a description for one of his dishes.
  • Dishing out Sunday brunch.
  • Eyeing the blueberry pancakes.
  • The crew from Virgil Kaine squeeze lemons at the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival tasting tents in Piedmont Park.
  • The line waiting for tasting tents to open.
  • An octopus po' boy from the Loew's Hotel chefs.
  • Octopus sliders in the tasting tents.
  • The Farm Burger team prepares Decimal Place goat cheese grit cakes.
  • Smoked trout sliders.
  • Indulging in what the tasting tents have to offer.
  • Grabbing a bite at the tasting tents.
  • As usual, this year's tasting tents drew large crowd .
  • The crew from Old Fourth Distillery pouring drinks in the tasting tents.
  • People stopping by to White Oak Pastures table.
  • Seafood R'evolution's Payton Warren scoops out a Mississippi-style seafood gumbo.
  • Toasting Cathead Vodka cocktails.
  • Strawberry summer salad from the chefs at Wind Creek Casino and Resort.
  • Hollandaise sauce covers crab-stuffed eggs.
  • Finishing the Hollandaise-topped, crab-stuffed eggs with a little heat.
  • It wouldn't be a Southern food festival without a little whiskey.
  • Steel drum music provides the background noise at the tasting tents.
  • Grilling chicken at the tasting tents.
  • The Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q team offering paella from a giant skillet.
  • Truffles from French Broad Chocolates sit on display.
  • Preparing food for the masses.
  • The pop-up vineyard at 14th Street.
  • The pop-up vineyard at 14th Street.

The Atlanta Food & Wine Festival has once again come and gone. In its sixth edition, chefs from all over the South arrived in Midtown and provided this city's culinary-obsessed with tastes, demonstrations, and discussions covering an array of topics. And new to the event this year was a pop-up vineyard on 14th Street, which officials claim is the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

Didn't get a chance to make it this year? Still basking in the afterglow from a weekend of indulgence? Either way, scope the action via the above gallery.

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