PaellaFest is a worldwide event, Food, Wine, Beer and Spirits, it’s a festival designed to promote, teach and create awareness about the famous and international paella contest for chefs, associations and restaurants from all over the US, and all the fun elements of a regular festival: music, dance, tapas, beer, wine and much more.

We are teaming up with the “Concurso Internacional de Paella Valenciana en Sueca”, being one of the most reputable gastronomic worldwide tradition event, and the most important if we speak of Paellas since 1961. The winner in the USA PaellaFest will have the honor to compete in the 59 edition from such international prestige event at the village of Sueca in the Valencia province.

Ten years ago, this contest decided to internationalize and promote the celebration of semifinals in different cities and countries around the world, to compete in the final in Sueca, Spain in the month of September. Japan, EEUU, Costa Rica, France, México, Perú, Tasmania and Australia.

In the United States, we will promote contests in many states and cities, to attend the semi-final in Washington DC at the end of May or June, every year. What we intend is to encourage associations of Spaniards, groups of friends, restaurants and chefs, to participate locally and promote our customs and culinary traditions around the world.