ilani Wine & Food Fest Tickets

The BBQ Fest was a wonderful event. I'm looking forward to the next event! Good Things: 1. Spectacular lineup of celebrity chefs! Loved having the opportunity to meet and greet them after each demonstration. 2. Terrific food by excellent BBQ teams from the region and beyond. 3. Location on top of the parking structure worked very well. 4. Wide and eclectic group of drink vendors. Things that could be better: 1. Check-in procedure could be streamlined. I know there is a rush at the beginning of the event, but it took us an hour to get checked in due to the long line. 2. We had trouble getting the QR code "express" checking app to work. Finally gave up, but the person at the check-in table was able to quickly get our wrist bands linked to our credit card. 3. The drink "samples" were very small. I know we had lots of opportunities for drinks (24 punches), but many of the "pours" were easily less than 1 ounce each. 4. I know that the people manning the drink tables were mostly volunteers, but I wish they had been better briefed on the breweries they were representing. Most of them didn't know much, if anything, about their specific companies. Overall, this was a wonderful event and we had a very good time. Well done, ilani!!

Had a great time at the Sunday roof top event. Only issue was the stage area where the demonstrations took place. Most seats were taken by the same people for the whole day so no chance for anyone to get a seat and watch the demonstrations. Everything else was fantastic.

We had a blast! So many vendors to pick from, lots of tastings and all you could want for a bbq fest! The only thing is, I wish there was more food to pick from… there seemed to be way more drink options than food.. still had a blast! Will return next year!

Such good food and drinks. Love all the Chefs and the nostalgia of it all. Perfect weather and a fun time with my friends.

First I want to say we have been going to these type of events since they started at the casino. Overall they’re great and we have a fun time. But there are two minor reasons this event doesn’t get 5 stars from me. 1. No communication about a schedule of presentations for each day. So you go in blind as to what celebrity chef presents on the day you choose. 2. It’s a BBQ fest, however, we were there on the day of a competition unbeknownst to us and because of that food options were limited since those participating in the competition were not providing services to the public and the ones that did provide food to the public were quickly running out of cooked food (not their fault) there was a lot of waiting for food to finish cooking, some waits were up to 45 minutes. I think this circles back to item #1. Would love to see a schedule of events for each day in order to purchase a ticket for the day that works for me.

Loved the selection of wine and food. The chef presentations were good too. Wish it was in an area that had different rooms (chef presentations in a separate room) because I feel like music was missing from the event. Plus we couldn't buy wine bottles from the event. That's why it's 4 out of 5 stars. Still a good time!

We like the Ilani casino, its got a great vibe and people are always friendly. The fact they took out smoking into the casino all together was a bad call. Prior to the pandemic, you used to be able to smoke cigars in the Bar 360 but now you can't smoke anywhere but outside in their designated smoking "area'. Its conveniently tucked away in the bowels of the casino where the ball rooms are located in a tent with no site of a bar for drinks (so if you want a drink, you'll have to walk right back to the bar to get one unless you're drinking doubles). They've conveniently put smalls tools and round tables outside for sitting but have not washed the furniture so flies swarm the furniture and then you're left standing up. The designer heat lamps give off enough heat in moderate weather but come winter time, they're goign to need more of those in there. The Bourbon Cigar event wasn't what we thought it would be. We imagined the event being sold out (which the website said it was) but the actual event might've had maybe 50 people at its highest with plenty of space for more people to attend. There was about 3-4 bourbon vendors from what i can tell (some vendors presenting 2 bottles) and was imagining there would be more than what was there. If this is their first Cigar/Bourbon event, it needs a little more work.

Thought it was gonna be more interactive and better quality honestly. Food was fair, i thought mid quality. drinks average with no room to adjust or deviate. Venue was great, staff amazing. Food Network part of it very much lacked sadly. Would i do it again, probably not. Fun to hang with friends and connect.

What a fun event. Great vendors, fabulous wine, amazing food, but cherry on top was meeting the Chefs, especially Maneet Chauhan, Christian Petroni and Rocco DiSpirito.

The celebrity chefs are very personable and happy to answer questions as well as take time to cahr after they've finished their demos. The food and alcohol were exceptional and all in all a FANTASTIC experience!

The chef's were friendly and food was amazing anx the live band was really good. All in all a fun ans delicious evening! Cant wait until next year!!!

This was the event to go to. best ever! The chefs were warm and welcoming. Their food and drink out standing. The band fantastic!. Could have used more seating as there were only a few tables available.

My wife thought there was some type of show or band included so it was a bit of a letdown...but the food was good and wine tasty. It was kindof neat to just interact with strangers after 2 yrs of isolation.

Again a great great time the wine from Furioso was fantastic, the food pairing were good the salmon and that desert were out of this world We hope you have many more in 2022

Great food, good wine with generous pours, and good music - although the sound system was turned up so loud as to be impossible to have a conversation at our table. We had friends and wanted to converse over dinner. This was not supposed to be a concert. Asked to have the volume turned down and was told it was not possible.

Good music with crowd pleasing vocals. Brilliant food and wine pairings by Chris, the executive chef. Lovely Rose and Thorn setting. I’d go again in a wink!

Would have been nice to have wine makers or at least a representative of the winery at the stations to talk about the wines. Not just someone to pour and not be able to answer questions.

Food and service were great. Had a devil of a time finding the event. Poor signage and staff was unable to direct us to the event.

It was very well organized. The flash sale tickets were extremely affordable. The food was good and affordable. We had a wonderful time and we were glad it was limited to 3 hours. We wish we could have purchased bottles there, but still overwhelmingly loved the event.

Great offering and selection of spirits, wine, and various other adult beverages. There were not very many food vendors - and they all cost additional money - significant $ and then there were not nearly enough bistro tables to eat at. It was great to see most people respectfully wear masks when walking around. I am not a meat eater - and was very disappointed that there were only two options for me to even eat. I had to leave the event and go inside the casino to order food that I could eat. Even the clam chowder and salmon chowder - which I would have eaten - had bacon in them. Would pay more up front for tickets IF there were more food options and varieties. Even some food and wine pairings would have been enjoyable. Will attend again - and hope for some additional food options. Overall - it was a very organized event from my perspective.