TASTE AWARDS Dinner and VIP Red Carpet Reception on April 9th in Los Angeles

The TASTE AWARDS, the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, Online, in Apps, and on Radio & Podcasts, announces the 9th Annual VIP Dinner and Red Carpet Reception will take place on April 9th in Los Angeles.

This year’s TASTE AWARDS VIP Dinner and Red Carpet Reception features a star-studded lineup of food and fashion TV, Film and Video celebrities, including winners, nominees and presenters. It takes place at one of Los Angele’s newest and chicest restaurants (secret location to be announced shortly)


The TASTE AWARDS Dinner & Reception includes:

✓ Celebrity Red Carpet step and repeat
✓ 3-Course Dinner
✓ Premium Wine reception
✓ Awards Presentation Ceremony & Winner Announcements
✓ VIP Gift Bags
✓ Location: One of Los Angele’s newest and chicest restaurants
✓ RSVP and Tickets Required – RSVP BY MARCH 28th

The Annual Awards have included appearances by stars, celebrities, producers and executives from networks and platforms such as the Food Network , the Style Network, Bravotv.com , the Cooking Channel, Sony Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, TLC, Discovery, Lifetime, E! Entertainment, PBS,American Public Television, Create TV, NBC News, ABC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, VICE, LiveWell network, Esquire Network, Bio/ FYI Television Network , Iheart Radio, HBO, Myx TV, Small Screen Network, StyleHaul, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Zagat, Mode Media, WatchMojo , Gusto TV, Netflix and more.

Examples of Celebrity Nominees for this year include Action Bronson , Martha Stewart , Snoopdog , VH1 , P. Allen Smith, Chef Jet TilaMing Tsai, Andrew Zimmern, and Gigi Gorgeous, Top Chef, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street

Location: TBA, Los Angeles
Date & Time: April 9, 2018
Red Carpet & Wine Reception: 6:00-7:00pm
Awards Dinner & Ceremony: 7:00pm-9:30pm

**Admission Tickets Required by all attendees. GO HERE FOR DETAILS.

Lifestyle Media Stars hit the TASTE AWARDS Red Carpet in Beverly Hills

TASTE AWARDS Viewers Choice Winners to be Announced on February 21st

The TASTE AWARDS Committee, the Academy of Media Tastemakers, the Advisory Board, Ambassadors, and Partners and Sponsors are announce that all Viewers Choice Winners will be announced and livestreamed on February 21st, direct from California.

All other Winners, Honorees and Inductees have been announced and can be viewed here.

Winners of the Photography Category Awards, Craft Award Winners and Best of Region Winners (Canada, Europe, Australia/NZ, etc.) will be pre-announced in late January 2017.

8th Annual TASTE Awards Finalists and Honorees Announced

Celeb Chefs Roy Choi & Tyler Florence party for Water at the W Hollywood

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Celeb Chefs Roy Choi & Tyler Florence party with smartwater sparkling at the W Hotel in Los Angeles, also known as the W Hotels Insider Collective at W Hollywood.

Chef Roy Choi and Harley Pasternak at smartwater sparkling Insider Collective dinner at W Hollywood

smartwater sparkling and W Hotels partnered to host a rooftop dinner as part of the latest installment of the Insider Collective, an exclusive series of intimate events that have been popping up at W Hotels around the globe. The private event was held at W Hollywood with special guest, celebrated chef and founder of gourmet Korean food truck Roy Choi, who chatted with innovators of food, fashion and fitness who attended.

Chefs Roy Choi and Tyler Florence at smartwater sparkling Insider Collective dinner at W Hollywood

Those included TASTE Hall of Fame inductee and chef Tyler Florence, stylist Katie Grand, celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak, blogger Dani Song and more…

Dani Song at smartwater sparkling Insider Collective dinner at W HollywoodThe special event celebrated the launch of new smartwater sparkling, which has all of the attributes of the smartwater you know and love but with just the right amount of bubbles.

The goal of the W Hotels Insider Collective is to bring together the most dynamic people in the fashion, music, tech, design and culinary worlds as only W Hotels can. Carefully curated, these events are designed to bring together influencers from different worlds for spirited conversation over good music and even better food and cocktails.

smartwater sparkling Insider Collective dinner at W HollywoodRoy Choi is a chef, restaurateur, and author based in Los Angeles who is responsible for essential California restaurants and food such as POT, Commissary, Chego, A-Frame, and Kogi™, one of the first food trucks in a movement that has now gone nationwide. In January 2016, he will open in Watts, an exciting and innovative restaurant concept that combines high quality with fast food. While he has traditional culinary training, he also draws inspiration from music, art, and, of course, well-crafted beer.

 

TASTE AWARDS announce Hotel G San Francisco as Official Hotel

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The TASTE AWARDS Committee is pleased to announce that one of the Official Hotels in San Francisco of the 7th Annual TASTE AWARDS is the Hotel G.

This chic “downtown-style” luxury boutique hotel is located in the heart of San Francisco, just steps from world famous Union Square, as well as the cable cars and San Francisco attractions.

The Hotel G is offering a special rate to attendees of the TASTE AWARDS, good from February 9th – 12th, 2016, available on a first come basis through December 31, 2015.

To view or use the special rates, please go to the TASTE AWARDS Official Hotel page.

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