Details on the 14th edition of Los Cabos gourmet food festival Sabor a Cabo, described as the sum of efforts by restaurants, chefs and sponsors, which have bet on this benefit event for the Red Cross, Firemen of Los Cabos and Los Cabos Children Foundation, were presented at a recent press conference. 

Gianmarco Vela, current president of Sabor a Cabo, highlighted several innovations that will take place during this 14th edition. One of them is that the public will be voting during the event in the following categories:

Most original stand

Best service Staff 

Select your three favorite dishes

Your favorite pairing

Favorite wine

“Now with the public's vote the participating restaurants will be able to obtain recognition by the attendees to the festival who are the all our special guests.¨

He added that a raffle was held among the 40 participating restaurants and each one now has to pair a dish with one of the participating wines. With this, the experience at Sabor a Cabo elevates to be a unique and exceptional gourmet festival in Mexico. ”

This year for the first time the festival has made alliances with seven hotels: Grand Solmar, Hacienda del Mar, Hacienda Encantada, Hotel Bahía, Mar Del Cabo, Playa Grande and Solaz a LUXURY COLLECTION RESORT.

Each hotel has prepared special tour packages with attractive rates for national guests and include: tickets for the event, with the option of an extended stay so that they can get to know Los Cabos through a week of gastronomic events that conclude with Sabor a Cabo Rural on 8 December.

Enrique Silva, coordinator of Invited Chef explained another new concept “Chef with Sabor a Cabo”, a cooking competition that includes six participating restaurants: Carbón Cabrón, Grand Velas, La Galería, La Roca, Nick-San y Sunset Monalisa.

“Each restaurants host chef has invited a guest award winning chef of some recognition among the world's top to become part of the team. They will have 45 minutes to prepare two dishes, one cold and one hot. Then by a draw the restaurants are divided into two groups and compete with each other.

Totuaba fish was chosen as the protein and to highlight local gastronomic elements, ingredients from the region will be used in the preparation each dish.

Three judges have been invited by Sabor a Cabo to deliberate the results of this contest: Jean George Vongerichten, Francis Reynard and Jonatan Gomez Luna. Each of them brings their knowledge and experience in international competitions such as Bocuse d'Or in order to take culinary art to the next stage.

Rodrigo Esponda, Director of the Tourism Trust of Los Cabos, commented on the importance of implementing this dynamic of guest chefs within the event.

“Every year this festival truly surprises and exceeds expectations. Both in gastronomic quality with excellent local chefs and now add 9 international chefs all focused in one place. Gastronomy is now a reason why visitors decide to take a trip to Los Cabos, for the pleasure of trying new flavors. Definitely Sabor a Cabo is the event that every foodie must attend. "

Without a doubt, the economic windfall that this festival generates is very important, especially if we consider that this year there are host hotels and a week of gastronomic events, it has been a lot of hard work in organizing. ”

Finally Gustavo Laborde, president of CANIRAC Los Cabos, said “Sabor a Cabo confirms the goodwill all CANIRAC members have for Los Cabos. The return to a gastronomic focus as the main ingredient and a spectacular concert; let’s make this festival sound worldwide! ”

There are still tickets available for individual sale or by table in the Chef View and Central areas, and can be purchased on the website www.saboracabo.com.

For Cabo News Today, Translation Tony Perez