NEED TO KNOW
- Bobby Flay and Brooke Williamson are among the many superstar cooks who will seem on the 2026 Meals & Wine Basic in Aspen
- The total lineup for the meals pageant — which takes place on June 19, 20 and 21, 2026 — was introduced on Dec. 10
- The occasion will function cooking demonstrations, seminars, tastings, events and extra
The 2026 Meals & Wine Basic in Aspen lineup has been cooked to perfection — and it’s formally able to be served!
The star-studded annual pageant returns to Aspen, Colo., for its forty third yr subsequent summer time with a lineup of superstar cooks, culinary consultants and trade titans — together with Meals Community star couple Bobby Flay and Brooke Williamson, Meals & Wine introduced on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Backdropped by the Rocky Mountains, this yr’s occasion is ready to happen on June 19, 20 and 21, 2026.
Over the three days, festival-goers can get pleasure from an array of cooking demonstrations and discussions, plus wine, cocktail and meals tastings. There will probably be 5 “Grand Tastings,” unique events and extra, a press launch teases.
Tickets to the Colorado pageant can be found starting at 12 p.m. E.T. on Dec. 10 at traditional.foodandwine.com. (“Early buy is strongly inspired,” the discharge states, “as tickets promote out every year.”)
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Bobby’s Triple Risk’s Flay, 60, and Williamson, 47, are slated to host cooking demonstrations and discussions on the 2026 Meals & Wine Basic, together with Maneet Chauhan, Andrew Zimmern, Tiffany Derry, Tyler Florence, Stephanie Izard, Ayesha Nurdjaja, Claudette Zepeda and Chris Shepherd.
Together with the star cooks, attendees can expertise wine and cocktail seminars led by a lineup of main sommeliers and beverage consultants that features Andy Chabot, Arjav Ezekiel, Anthony Giglio, Ray Isle, Victoria James, Carlin Karr, Wanda Mann, Amanda McCrossin, Mark Oldman, Femi Oyediran, June Rodil, Bobby Stuckey and Miles White.
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In a press release, Meals & Wine Editor-in-Chief Hunter Lewis guarantees “unforgettable experiences” on the “one-of-a-kind” Aspen occasion.
“Since 1983, the Meals & Wine Basic in Aspen has set the stage for cooks, wine execs, and hospitality trade leaders to cook dinner, pour, educate, style, and collect in one of the spectacularly stunning cities within the nation,” Lewis says. “I am honored to play a job in persevering with the legacy of this legendary occasion, and bringing this huge, one-of-a-kind celebration to life.”
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“We’re excited to be again this June with all new, unforgettable experiences, that includes culinary icons, breakout stars, and moments that can set the usual for what’s subsequent,” provides the Meals & Wine editor-in-chief. “Belief us, you’ll need to be there.”
The 2026 pageant, which is offered by American Specific and Resy, will even make donations to 2 charity companions: No Child Hungry, a marketing campaign devoted to ending childhood starvation in the US, and Southern Smoke Basis, a nonprofit that gives emergency support and psychological well being assets to staff within the meals and beverage trade.
Final summer time, PEOPLE shared a glance into the star-studded 2025 Meals & Wine Basic.
The 2025 Aspen pageant — to not be confused with its extra lately launched fall counterpart, held in Charleston, S.C. — featured appearances from celebrities like Padma Lakshmi, Regina King, Antoni Porowski, Ayesha Curry and Any person Feed Phil creator Phil Rosenthal.
Martha Stewart, Man Fieri and extra have appeared on the occasion in earlier years.
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