New Orleans Wine and Food Experience

Fantastic events during NOWFE week. From Wine Dinners, labs, Vinola to the Grand Tasting. Phenomenal wines and cuisine to match. With the addition of the Culinary Awards, the food scene is stellar.

Amazing experience! Looking forward to the next one. Meeting the wine makers from so many excellent vineyards was the highlight of the evening! Tasting their most premium wines and talking about them was memorable. Tasting the unique food creations of so many exceptional local chefs was impressive. Glad I did not eat at all the day of the event! Small finger foods were the perfect complement to the amazing assortment of wines. Suggest they pair the food with a vinyard next year.

I've volunteered at NOWFE and also attended many of their events which are expertly executed. The dinners and tastings are highlight of the summer and should not be missed! During the summer in NOLA when festival season is sort of winding down NOWFE really shores up the city's event calendar with a world class experience!

We had an excellent time at the Tournament of Rose. It was worth every penny and I would recommend that you get the VIP package. You will have a great time!

There was a great selection of wines and delicious foods! The staff were wonderful! This is not our first NOWFE. We travel in from Texas. It was entirely too hot to drink and eat. It was so much better when it was held at the Convention Center. Please, please move this event back to an enclosed, air-conditioned building. This will restore it back to the primo event we know and love!

The New Orleans Wine & Food Experience (more commonly known as NOWFE) was truly a fun and entertaining event. Several of our team members had the opportunity to attend the various events, and all of them had a blast! We especially enjoyed the Royal Street Stroll, which was a night of great food and wine coupled with touring the art galleries and shops down Royal Street. We will definitely be attending next year!

I have been attending NOWFE events for 25 years and last night's Vinola event was the worst I've attended.  The venue of the old bank was attractive and that was the high point of the evening. The event was marketed as "Vinola is a completely seated event. The wine and food will be served to you"  That was untrue.  The only way we received wine or food was to go to the 4 food stations on one side, or the wine stations on the other side of the bank lobby.  As a result, the crowd mostly stood all evening. A critical error was miscalculation of food needed.  For an event slated to last 2 1/2 hours, the food began to run out in the first 45 minutes and the restaurant participants had all cleared their sections in just over an hour.  Since the wine, and 95% of the guests were all at the other end of the building, I heard people saying they were surprised that they were enjoying wine and talking with their friends for the first hour and then decided to grab a bite, only to be shocked that the food had already run out. As for the food, there were 3 restaurants.  One, Papa Ted's Truck served two vegan sandwiches, which were excellent. Second, the Windsor Court served a single scallop in sauce. Frankly, we expected more from the Windsor Court.  Third, the Palace Cafe had an excellent crab cheesecake.  The fourth, listed as, but not a restaurant, was Gourmet Fournet, a maker of onion dips, serving potato chips with onion dip on top and occasionally a tiny dot of cajun caviar, which it was clear, they were stretching as their supply was very low. As for the wine, the varieties were fewer than we have noticed in prior years. There was an order form on the tables showing an excellent selection of wines we could order for later purchase, but a large portion of those were not being poured at the event.  Most of us attend these events, taste wines and food, and later purchase those items or frequent those restaurants.  We definitely did not get value for the $185 per person price. This was a poorly managed event.  Hopefully, tomorrow's Grand Tasting  will be better organized. Joel Daste

This is the Katrina lady. Be sure to ask if Katherine Kelley on Alphonse Street has been banned from attending any one of these events. Ed Womac and Kathy Womac should also be banned. They deformed my infant son's body in horrible ways. Katherine Kelley deformed my sons mouth when he was two months old and they all created permanent scars on his knee. They have a Satanic Cult. Call the police and let them know if they harm you or your children. This is a public service announcement.