Overview The Puerto Rico Wine and Food Festival is four days of chef-hosted lunches, dinners, wine seminars and night tastings across San Juan in April, and nearly every ticketed event on the 2026 schedule sold out. Visiting chefs such as Geoffrey Zakarian, Marcus Samuelsson, Ming Tsai and Todd English have cooked beside Puerto Rico's own, among them Mario Pagán, Wilo Benet and José Enrique. The Puerto Rico Tourism Company presents it, and proceeds support PR Eats for Good, a nonprofit that funds education and career development for aspiring chefs and sommeliers on the island. On site The 2026 festival opened on Thursday with Birdies and Bites, a golf tournament at Dorado Beach with chef and cocktail stations on the course, and a White Party opening-night tasting at La Concha Resort. Friday and Saturday ran on three tracks. Midday, the OpenTable Power Lunch Series put two chefs in one kitchen at restaurants such as DRGN, Mario Pagán Restaurant and DANTE. Afternoons were seminars: LVMH on Numanthia and Joseph Phelps, Lingua Franca with Schrader Cellars, Master Sommelier Gillian Ballance's Wines from the Ring of Fire, and masterclasses from Belvedere and Clase Azul. Nights meant chef dinners and a walk-around tasting at La Concha, with VIP entry an hour ahead of general admission. Sunday closed on champagne and caviar. Talent and Influencers The 2025 headliners were Bryce Bonsack, Monti Carlo, Todd English, Ayesha Nurdjaja, Monica Ortiz, Ming Tsai, Rafael Zaga and Paul Bartolotta, and the festival invited more than 50 local chefs. The 2026 roster added Zakarian, Samuelsson, Scott Conant, Esther Choi, Michael White and Juan Manuel Barrientos of Elcielo, with Giovanna Huyke, José Mendín and Roberto Treviño among the island chefs. Lingua Franca founder Larry Stone led a seminar. In November 2025 a kickoff, Taste of the Big League, put Mario Pagán in La Concha with World Series champions Carlos Beltrán and Carlos Delgado and other Puerto Rican major leaguers. Track record The first festival ran April 3 to 6, 2025, at La Concha Resort, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve. It drew more than 8,000 people across its events, who went through about 64,500 food tastings and 1,600 bottles of wine. Coverage came from Condé Nast Traveler, AFAR, Travel Weekly, The Points Guy, CBS and El Nuevo Día, and the festival ran an island-wide billboard campaign with HelloMedia. Taste of the Big League drew 850 guests. Brand presence In 2026 partners put their names on single events: Lexus presented the Modern Boricua lunch, Moët Hennessy the champagne dinner, OpenTable the lunch series, and Belvedere and Clase Azul ran their own masterclasses. The largest partnerships take naming rights to the day and evening events at La Concha or the weekend grand tastings, with logos locked up on chef jackets, tickets, event pages and ads, and the right to use festival marks in promotions and contests on the island. Partners can also work with the festival to bring in chefs, media and influencers of their choosing.