Hey Festival Friends! What do you get when you combine great food, the best California wine, top chefs and top Food Network personalities with great weather? You get the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival. On this episode, our guest is Food Network personality and the co-founder of the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival, Troy Johnson.

A lifelong San Diego resident, Troy takes us through his career as a music and food writer and TV personality to launching this incredible festival in the city he loves. For a decade now (yes, a decade) Troy has been a featured judge on Guy’s Grocery Games on the Food Network and takes us behind the scenes to the hilarious story of the first time he met Guy Fieri himself. Troy also shares his story of taking over San Diego Magazine with his wife and doing his part to use that platform to lift up restaurants during and after the pandemic.

The inaugural Del Mar Wine & Food Festival will feature the best chefs of San Diego and the Baja Peninsula and will feature key events like a Dos Hombres Mezcal pairing dinner with Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston. We also hear there will be a dry aged bone marrow tasting, which we’ve never seen on the food festival circuit before.

There will also be appearances by other celebrities including Surfing Champion Rob Machado and a celebrity PickleBall Tournament hosted by Drew Brees! Mark your calendars for September 6-11 and be there in San Diego for all the action!

To find out more about the Del Mar Wine & Food Festival and Troy: Del Mar Wine & Food Festival website: https://delmar.wine/ Follow the festival on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delmarfest/ Follow Troy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heytroyjohnson/ Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_troyjohnson

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