Busch Gardens Tampa’s popular Food & Wine Festival is back for its 6th year of tasty treats, indulgent drinks and world-class entertainment.
Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival
This year’s event begins on February 29 and runs every weekend through April 26, 2020. The Food & Wine Festival is included with regular park admission.
Busch Gardens’ new award-winning Executive Chef, Ernie Reyes brings a fresh approach to this popular event. With 25 NEW food items in addition to fan-favorite dishes and over 80 wines, beers and cocktails to choose from, the Food & Wine Festival offers an endless variety of flavors to sip and savor! Guests can tempt their taste buds with the following new items:
- The ALL-NEW Chef’s Corner cabin: featuring three signature dishes carefully crafted by the park’s head chefs – arroz con pollo, pork belly taco with kimchi slaw, and pork tenderloin with champagne watercress sauce.
- NEW Iconic Coaster Cocktails: including Iron Gwazi Gimlet, Falcon’s Fury Lemon Drop, and Tigris Tea
- NEW Pick-A-Barrel tasting: create your own flight of liquors and wines from around the world
Click here to view the entire menu and pick your perfect upgrade or purchase your Food & Wine Festival Sampler Lanyard – the best way to savor and save on everything the event has to offer!
Guests can purchase a 5, 8 or 12-item sampler lanyard to use at each festival cabin to explore sample-sized dishes and drink offerings with ease, starting at just $32. Pass Members can purchase an exclusive 15-item sampler for the same price as a 12-item sampler and SAVE 20%! We HIGHLY recommend purchasing a sampler lanyard, as you get a lot bang for your buck.
Food & Wine Concerts
Besides delicious food and drink, the Food & Wine Festival hosts tons of amazing live entertainment from every genre to please music fans. Everything from rock and country, to Latin flavors, disco and more! This year’s concert lineup is:
Feb 29: Collective Soul
March 1: The Commodores
March 7: Chase Bryant & Danielle Bradbery
March 8: Rachel Platten
March 14: Ezra Ray Hart
March 15: THREE DOG NIGHT
March 21: LOCASH
March 22: Fitz & The Tantrums
March 28: Home Free
March 29: Taking Back Sunday
April 4: Third Eye Blind
April 5: KC & The Sunshine Band
April 11: 38 Special
April 12: Micah Tyler & Austin French
April 18: Lee Brice
April 19: Clint Black
April 25: El Gran Combo
April 26: Toad the Wet Sprocket & The Verve Pipe
The concerts are held in Gwazi Park and are included with regular park admission. However, guests can book the ultimate festival experience with one of two exclusive VIP packages available for each act, including reserved concert seating and a 5-item Food & Wine Festival Sampler Lanyard. New for 2020, upgrade to the ultimate concert-goer experience with Unlimited Food & Wine Festival VIP Seating which includes VIP seating for EVERY concert of the 2020 Festival!
In addition, there will be Pass Member preview of the Food & Wine Festival on Friday, February 28, featuring a performance by Eaglemania: The World’s Greatest Eagles Tribute Band. This exclusive event is available ONLY for Pass Members to preview the all-new menu of sips and samples at the 6th Annual Food & Wine Festival. Visit buschgardenstampa.com to learn more or purchase your Annual Pass to gain access to this VIP opportunity!
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Let’s Hear From You
Are you a Food & Wine Festival fan? Have you tried the Busch Gardens event? See any bands that interest you? Let us know in the comments below.