Ashland
Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites, 2525 Ashland Street (event headquarters)
Early November www.travelashland.org
One of the state’s most amazing culinary events, the Ashland Culinary Festival offers four spectacular days of incredible cuisine, amazingly creative libations, and educational workshops, along with exuberant, entertaining, fast-paced cooking and mixology competitions, all celebrating Southern Oregon’s diverse and eclectic food and drink and the people who bring them to life.
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Home to many superb restaurants and bars, Ashland boasts a diversity of world-class chefs and imaginative victuallers, making the lively competitive events among the most popular aspects of the culinary festival. In the Chef Showdown, a dozen local chefs whip up their most ingenious and sumptuous offerings using local produce and a secret key ingredient revealed only at the start of the contest. Spurred on by a festival MC and a jubilant crowd, the chefs work their magic, and their creations are
