Sabor Latino Food, Beer, and Wine Festival 2017 - recap

The annual San Diego Latino Film Festival is hugely popular and recently introduced a foodie festival as part of the week's events. This year marked the second annual Sabor Latino food, beer and wine festival. Similar to Latin Food Fest, there were plenty of fabulous chefs, local and across the Mexican border, sharing their heartfelt creations and spreading their fondness for food. The full ticket also included unlimited beer and wine tastings from the participating vendors.

I've never attended any festivals in Mission Valley so ended up parking farther than anticipated (near the trolley station) of Fashion Valley Mall. Tents were actually set up between two parking structures just south of the AMC theater and food court area.

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My plus one and I had general admission tickets which let us in at 2pm (VIP enters at 1pm). We were lucky enough to stop by for some paella from Paella Villa de Cervantes before they ran out! The portions were plentiful which may have contributed the short supply.

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I love how this shot of Chef Daniella from Cocina Secret turned out. With their tent's background, it was almost as if we were in some resort being personally served by the chef!

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Here's a closeup of her shrimp and quinoa ceviche with mango coconut cream plus a touch of curry. Yes it was tasty. Another fun little bite was from Chef Bianca and I was enamoured by the whipped meringue portion.

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Chefs from Mestiza and Sierra Vita Casa Vinicola

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Chef Bo Bendana sample at Sabor Latino Sabor Latino Wine Beer and Food Festival (San Diego Latino Film Festival 2017)

More fun bite sized samples

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Fricasse de pechuga de pollo con arroz de azafran. Now saying that is a mouthful! The flavors were brilliant and meat oh so tender but just a tad bit salty!

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Chef Felipe Raul from Vinedos Malagon (Valle de Guadalupe Mexico). After pairing these pictures, I noticed Chef Stevan was in the food prep picture as well!

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Here is Chef Stevan's pork belly creation!

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Another favorite was the corn and uni chowder from Chef Ruffo of Oryx Capital. We also had some fish wrapped in banana leaves from Chef Sandra.

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Here are the guys from Oryx Capital (with some nametags to help)

yellow fin tuna aguachile from Cocina Silvestre at Sabor Latino Sabor Latino Wine Beer and Food Festival (San Diego Latino Film Festival 2017)

Yellow fin tuna aguachile from Cocina Silvestre. Smoked fish taco with chile morita from Olivia

Sabor Latino Wine Beer and Food Festival (San Diego Latino Film Festival 2017)

After seeing several people carrying around these cups of fruit/veggies, we found the source but unfortunately it was for VIP only. *sigh* It looked so refreshing.

Sabor Latino Wine Beer and Food Festival (San Diego Latino Film Festival 2017) macaroon from Harrah's Resort at Sabor Latino

Mexitreat provides for all your dulces (sweets) needs. Delicious Macaroons de Chocolate from Harrah's Resort were found near the ticket booth of the entrance. Thank goodness this one wasn't VIP only!

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Daniela Copenhaver from Daniela's kitchen @danielaskitchensd is also competing on the Food Network's Spring break Championships.

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Wine tasting and more!

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Novo Brazil Beer

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Border X Brewery beer and hat (display only). Lagunitas Little Sumpin'.

Sabor Latino Wine Beer and Food Festival (San Diego Latino Film Festival 2017)

Suja juice to cool off (much appreciated on this hot day).

Sabor Latino Wine Beer and Food Festival (San Diego Latino Film Festival 2017)

Artwork for sale. Love how cute the skeletons are in this See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil trilogy.

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Tents for shade on a hot day!

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Foodie + props = fun

Disclaimer: We were provided tickets for this event. We were not otherwise compensated and all opinions stated are our own.

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Laura @ Sprint 2 the Table's picture
Submitted by Laura @ Sprint ... (not verified) on Mon, 04/03/2017 - 7:36pm

That looks like so much fun! I could literally eat Mexican food for every meal. So many places to try!

lynn's picture
Submitted by lynn on Tue, 04/25/2017 - 2:16pm

This size festival is perfect for sampling because you aren't crazy stuffed at the end... unless you go back for seconds and thirds since it is unlimited.

Faye's picture
Submitted by Faye (not verified) on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 3:01pm

I was wondering about this event so thank you for posting about it. Were the samples unlimited as well? How was the line to get in?

lynn's picture
Submitted by lynn on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 6:54pm

samples were unlimited. there wasn't much of a line to get in. the food lines weren't very long either except for one (due to plating and stuff)

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