The 5th Annual South Beach Seafood Festival is back to kick off Miami's globally-recognized stone crab season. #SobeSeafood kicks off October 17-21, 2017, with a week of dinners & events, leading up to Friday's Chef Showdown & Saturday's South Beach Seafood Festival, all happening in the best way South Beach knows how!  

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The main event of the seafood festival will take place on Saturday, October 21st with several of South Florida's leading chefs and culinary masterminds showcasing some of their best seafood while benefiting a great cause: CI Foundation's EAT SMART program. Saturday's beachfront event, South Beach Seafood Festival is brought to you by Kendall Jackson and presented by Coca-Cola and Jack Daniel's and will span five blocks. Last year over 13,000 seafoodies enjoyed a day of fun in the sun.

Participating restaurants include:

• A Fish Called Avalon

• Café Avanti

• CIBOCJ's

• Dragonfly

• Joe's Stone Crab

• La Moderna

• Lobster Bar Sea Grille

• Meat Market / Miami Smokers

• Naked Crab / Naked Taco

• Nikki Beach

• Papa's Raw Bar

• Poseidon

• Red the Steakhouse

• Rusty Pelican

• Toro Toro

• Trulucks

• Whole Foods Market

Festival tickets start at $45 which includes full admission and complimentary all day open bar. Food is available once inside for purchase with 60+ delicious large-portion menu items between $5-$8. There will be stone crabs, stone crabs, and more stone crabs, along with lobster tempura skewers, mahi sliders, scallop BLTs, oysters, shrimp tacos, lobster roll waffle cones, crab cakes in a shell, grilled octopus, shrimp parmesan, surf n' turf filet and lobster, and more.  

VIP tickets are $150 and include $20 worth of food vouchers, access to the VIP Hospitality Village full of private samplings and incredible wine and dine experiences, private after-party and so much more.

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Event is open to the public, but must be 21+ to consume alcohol.  Tickets can be purchased for all events at www.sobeseafoodfest.com.