Los Angeles Times and Food & Wine present The Taste, a four-day food and wine festival celebrating all things epicurean in Los Angeles. The festival will showcase L.A.’s burgeoning and dynamic culinary scene, and include everything from local restaurant tastings and cooking demos from top celebrity chefs, to wine tastings/seminars from some of the most-admired vintners in the world, and a variety of signature events that will prove to be the talk of the town.

Celebrity Chefs will host the following events:

9/3: Taco Tequila Tryst (Hollywood) - Roy Choi
9/4: Street Eats (Hollywood) - Susan Feniger
9/4: Desserts After Dark (Beverly Hills) - Duff Goldman
9/5: Picnic in the Hills (Beverly Hills) - Giada De Laurentiis

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Ticket prices include a donation to benefit the following charities: Beverly Hills Education Foundation, LA Conservancy, Collins College of Hospitality Management- Cal Poly Pomona, Share Our Strength and Los Angeles Times Family Fund.

***Schedule and programming subject to change