Dallas Arboretum Food and Wine Festival. Photo courtesy of Dallas Arboretum.

Tickets are on sale for the annual Food & Wine Festival at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. 

This year’s event will take place on Thursday, March 26 and is co-chaired by chef and restaurateur Sharon Van Meter. 

Trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Van Meter was formerly an executive chef at The Ritz-Carlton International and Neiman Marcus in Dallas. She’s been in the food business for over 50 years and was inducted into the Texas Restaurant Association’s Hall of Honor in 2024. And this is certainly not the first time Van Meter has chaired the Arboretum’s Food & Wine Festival.

General admission for the Food & Wine Festival includes tastings from the restaurants and wineries in attendance (which doesn’t appear to have been announced publicly yet) and entertainment from 7-9 p.m. A ticket will cost members $142 and non-members $162. 

Participants can also opt for the VIP admission, which allows entrance at 6 p.m. and includes valet parking, exclusive bites and a larger commemorative logo wine goblet, according to the Arboretum’s website. Those tickets cost $192 each for members and $212 for non-members. 

(And, in case it needs to be said, this event is for adults.) 

The first-ever Food & Wine Festival organized by Dallas Arboretum was held in 2017 in the midst of Dallas Blooms season. Enjoying the floral displays of that event, which takes place Feb. 21 through April 12, is part of the festival’s attraction. 

For more information on the festival, click here.

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