Tickets for the eighth annual Devour Culinary Classic are officially on sale for everyone.

The Devour Week of events will be held February 26 through March 5 with a series of events celebrating Arizona’s unique culinary talents. The main event, the Devour Culinary Classic, will be held on Saturday, March 4, and Sunday, March 5, at Phoenix Art Museum, where the Dorrance Sculpture Garden will come alive with tastings of food, wine, beer and cocktails, as well as cooking demonstrations and interactive stations where attendees will have a unique opportunity to meet and interact with Arizona chefs.

Tickets for the 2016 Devour Culinary Classic are available in several package options:

  • Tickets for the general public began on Cyber Monday, November 28, online. Ticket options include Single Day General Admission ($109), and Single Day VIP ($150).
  • There will be a $3 service fee on any non-museum member ticket purchases.

General Admission tickets include unlimited access to food and beverage sampling throughout the event, as well as any event programming including chef demonstrations. Devour Culinary Classic ticket holders will also receive free general admission and discount admission for special exhibitions at Phoenix Art museum such as Samurai: Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller CollectionThe Propeller GroupSelf-Published Photobooks, and Horacio Zabala: Mapping the Monochrome.

In addition to these benefits, VIP ticket holders will have exclusive access to the general tasting area a full hour before General Admission ticket holders. VIP benefits also include VIP parking pass at the museum and access to private VIP lounge areas featuring exclusive chef access, menu tastings, cocktail samplings, and more to be announced at a later date.

The Devour Culinary Classic, formerly known as the Devoured Culinary Classic, is the region’s premier week long annual culinary celebration hosted by Devour Phoenix, Local First Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum and Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance at several distinct venues in Phoenix, Arizona. The goal of the events are to showcase Arizona’s celebrity culinary talent as well as its fine food and drink producers and purveyors, all while furthering metro Phoenix as a dining destination worthy of international prestige.

The Devour Culinary Classic continues to be named the leading and most-anticipated culinary event in the Phoenix area. Already this year, the Devour Culinary Classic was named Best Food Festival by Phoenix Magazine and Best Culinary Festival by Phoenix New Times, and also received the Good Neighbor Award from the Arizona Restaurant Association’s Foodist Awards.