Overview The Bahamas Culinary and Arts Festival is a five-day food, drink and art festival spread across the three hotels of Baha Mar on Cable Beach in Nassau, and Lenny Kravitz headlined its 2025 edition. The festival runs more than 40 events through the resort's 45-plus restaurants and bars, with more than 40 Bahamian artists alongside visiting chefs, and it carries its own Caribbean art fair, FUZE, inside it. It is produced by a21, the event company behind the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival, Pebble Beach Food and Wine and the Heritage Fire tour, which dates to 2006 and works from Miami, New York and London. On site Everything happens on one property: the Grand Hyatt, Rosewood and SLS at Baha Mar. The published 2026 program opened its weekend with A Taste of Baha Mar, a Friday walk-around of bites and drinks from kitchens across the resort with live performance, then ran the Culinary Expo beside the FUZE Art Fair on Saturday and Sunday, where artists teach classes, demonstrate and give talks. A la carte master classes and intimate chef experiences fill the gaps, and a weekend pass covers the flagship events. Talent and Influencers The 2025 chef lineup included Marcus Samuelsson, Daniel Boulud, Dario Cecchini, Scott Conant, Carla Hall, Maneet Chauhan, Amanda Freitag, Geoffrey Zakarian and Simeon Hall Jr., leading demonstrations, dinners and tastings. FUZE 2025 showed Bahamian artists Antonius Roberts, Jessica Whittingham, Javon Nixon and Cydne Jasmin Coleby next to Janine Antoni and Lavar Munroe, under a poster by Shepard Fairey. The published 2026 lineup added Esther Choi, Nina Compton, Claudette Zepeda and Buddy Valastro. Track record 2025 was the festival's fourth edition and FUZE's third. That year the art fair showed more than 120 artists and galleries from 21 countries. Brand presence Scotiabank was title sponsor of the FUZE Caribbean Art Fair in 2025. a21 designs and fabricates brand activations in-house, so a partner's build on the expo floor or at A Taste of Baha Mar comes from the same team that produces the festival.