Food & Wine Festivals/Conventions & Shows

The 15th Annual Hawaii Food & Wine Festival 2025- Preview, Ticket Link & Post Coverage

September 19, 2025 todd elliot

Photos of Co Founders Alan Wong and Roy Yamaguchi

Audio Interview with Roy below about his restaurants and how he got into the Food and Wine Festival partnering with Alan Wong 2025:

The 15th Annual Hawaii Food & Wine Festival was held this past October & November, which brought world-renowned chefs, culinary personalities, and wine/spirit producers to O’ahu. The Oʻahu events were the final leg of the multi-island festival, which began on the Island of Hawaii and proceeded to Maui earlier in October. Two of the festival’s O’ahu events that we attended:

Slanted & Phan-tastic: A Celebration of Charles Phan: A special evening which honored the culinary legacy of the late Chef Charles Phan. The event featured a collection of many top chefs, including friends and mentees of Phan, who prepared inspired dishes and cocktails to honor his legacy of redefining modern Vietnamese cuisine.
FEAST Summit: The inaugural Food, Education, Agriculture, Sustainability, and Tourism (FEAST) Summit was a full-day conference. The event included a networking lunch and featured industry change makers and the next generation of Hawaii’s culinary leaders.

Mark your calendar for next year’s Hawaii Food & Wine Festival where you get to experience a world class culinary event which features renowned chefs, cocktail and wine tastings, and a celebration of local Hawaiian agriculture and flavors. For next year information, schedule and tickets, visit https://hawaiifoodandwinefestival.com/

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Hawaii Food & Wine Festival is the premier culinary destination event in the Pacific.

A three-weekend epicurean experience that spans three islands each fall, the Hawaii Food & Wine Festival (HFWF) is the largest food festival in Hawaii. Co-founded by two of Hawaii’s own James Beard Award-winning chefs—Roy Yamaguchi and Alan Wong—the Festival showcases Hawaii’s rich agricultural diversity and homegrown culinary talent through world-class culinary experiences.

Each year, more than 150 internationally renowned master chefs, culinary personalities, sommeliers, mixologists, and wine and spirit producers are invited to participate in roughly 20 events, from grand tastings and wine dinners to kids cooking classes, wine seminars and more. Unlike other food festivals across the country, HFWF challenges participating chefs to use at least one locally grown, raised or caught ingredient in their dish, connecting Hawaii’s farmers, ranchers and fishermen to thousands of attendees each year. As a program of the nonprofit, Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance, HFWF has donated nearly $5 million to community and aina-based organizations that support sustainability, culinary and agricultural education, and cultural programs in Hawaii since 2011.

More info at https://hawaiifoodandwinefestival.com/

For a schedule of the events and tickets, visit https://hawaiifoodandwinefestival.com/schedule/