About South Beach Seafood Festival 2025
Four days of fun! The South Beach Seafood Festival is back to take over Miami in October on the sands of South Beach. This Florida seafood festival kicks off Miami’s globally-recognized stone crab season October 22-25, 2025 in the best way that South Beach knows how! Plus, ticket price includes all-day open bar! If you want to get your tickets go to sobeseafoodfest.com and use promo code CGLOVE20 for 20% OFF your ticket price.
South Beach Seafood Festival is not your typical east coast seafood festival, but a high-end experience that showcases the talents of South Florida’s leading chefs and culinary masterminds via a diverse group of events where guests experience the best seafood in Miami.
Saturday’s beachfront event, South Beach Seafood Festival spans five blocks and welcomes over 15,000 seafoodies to enjoy a day of fun in the sun. Voted Top Food Festival in the US by Food Network & USA Today, The South Beach Seafood Festival takes over Miami Beach, FL in October!
Sobe Seafood Festival 2025 Promo Code CGLOVE20
South Beach Seafood Week 2025 Tickets
Festival ticket prices start at $160.
SOBE Seafood Festival SEAFOOD SLAM, Saturday, October 25th from 1pm – 5pm
SEAFOOD SLAM tickets are $160. All Inclusive. | Limited Tickets available.
Experience the ultimate seafood extravaganza at the popular Seafood Slam, a highlight of the 12th Annual South Beach Seafood Festival, which is back for year #13. Dive into a world of culinary delights as guests indulge in an all-inclusive experience that will become the NEW Saturday Festival Day, taking what you LOVE about the annual South Beach Seafood Festival, Festival Day, and granting you access to the ultimate all new Best of the Best festival.
From succulent shellfish to savory fish dishes, the Seafood Slam promises a feast for the senses, showcasing the finest seafood creations from South Florida’s leading top restaurants. While Friday night’s Chef Showdown celebrates the ultimate chef competition LIVE, Saturday’s festival is about finding the BEST OF THE BEST seafood restaurant throughout South Florida.
At the Seafood Slam, Best of the Best Fest, not only will guests enjoy a delectable array of seafood delights, paired with all your favorite enjoyments that the South Beach Seafood Festival day annually entailed, but YOU, the guests, will become part of the excitement and the competition among the participating restaurants. It’s a quest to find the best of the best dish at the festival, where talented restaurant teams together will showcase their culinary expertise and creativity providing 2-3 menu items to indulge and try to garner YOUR vote. Join us for a thrilling culinary day to continue our tradition of everyone’s favorite Chef competition night on Friday night and be part of the excitement as we get ready to savor the flavors of the ocean in style on Saturday afternoon in Lummus Park in Miami Beach at this always entertaining, live music, dj filled day of fun paired with an unforgettable gastronomic celebration.
2025 will once again see ONE Ticket type and it’s ALL VIP! GET READY! Because we want YOU to Indulge and vote on your Seafood Slam, Best of the Best Fest dish, and make Saturday a day all about SOUTH FLORIDA’s BEST SEAFOOD from YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANTEURS!
TICKET BENEFITS:
What will you find with your SEAFOOD SLAM, Best of the Fest All Access Ticket? ($160 – All Inclusive)
- Indulge and sample in an All-inclusive experience- Indulge and sample from 40+ hand selected restaurants so YOU can pick YOUR BEST OF THE BEST restaurant bites of the day!
- All beverages included at the multiple interactive national beverage sample brand experiences
- Demesmin & Dover Live Music Stage presented by Jack Daniels flanked by the always popular Pacifico beach clubs, Sun Sips by High Noon, Breakthru Beverage wine garden, and more
- Milams Market Culinary Showcase Kitchen is back with educational experiences for all. Highlighted this year by a 2:30PM demo from Food Network’s Chef Robert Irvine.
- ALL GUEST ACCESS to the always popular GOYA Culinary experiences & added interactive entertainment
- College Football Watch Party
- And be sure to elevate your festival experience at the exclusive Premium Stone Crab Pavilion—where indulgence meets sophistication. While this is NOT included in the ticket price, get ready because after you are stuffed from 40+ restaurants, Dive into the freshest, most succulent stone crabs, available for purchase and served chilled on ice, just as they should be, only from the best right out of the ocean. This isn’t just an upgrade; it’s an invitation to taste luxury at its finest. Imagine cracking into perfectly prepared stone crabs while soaking up the vibrant atmosphere throughout the festival —because some pleasures are worth paying for.
- And the list continues ….
Your ticket to the Seafood Slam is ALL-INCLUSIVE, but there will be some upgrades available inside to include the Premium Stone Crab Pavilion for discounted options available for purchase on-site.
Get your tickets at sobeseafoodfest.com and use promo code CGLOVE20 for 20% OFF your ticket price.
South Beach Seafood Week 2025 Culinary Event Lineup
Ahead of Saturday’s festival, there’s loads of delectable fun for the culinary inclined.
A seafood event like no other, South Beach Seafood Festival includes a week of nightly culinary events leading up to Saturday, including:
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 1-5 PM: ALL NEW – Seafood Slam, Sobe Seafood’s Best of the Fest at Lummus Park (South Beach, on the sand)
Friday, October 24, 2025, 7-11 PM: VIP Chef Showdown at Lummus Park (South Beach, on the sand)
Thursday, October 23, 2025: An Evening in Miami Beach:
- Catch Miami at 6:30 PM
- Rao’s Miami Beach at 6:30 PM
- Pubbelly Sushi in collaboration with Phuc Yea at 7:00 PM
Wednesday, October 22, 2025: An Evening in Miami Beach by Carbone
- Carbone Miami at 7:00 PM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2025: CHEF SHOWDOWN
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM | Lummus Park – ON THE SAND!
TICKETS: – $175. All Inclusive. | Only 1,500 Tickets available.
22 CHEFS. 11 BATTLES. 1 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT.
#ChooseYourChamp at the iconic VIP Chef Showdown, brought to you by Jack Daniels and presented by Goya Foods. Join Miami’s top executive chefs for an evening of competitive culinary cook-offs, where YOU are the judge as you indulge in endless seafood and cocktails because tickets are completely all-inclusive!
In a perfect combination of competition-level cuisine, tropically fresh cocktails, and live entertainment, the Chef Showdown tours guests through the BEST of Miami’s culinary scene with the ultimate BEACH BASH meets Chef SHOWDOWN, thanks to the help of Sounds by Yissel. Hosted inside the VIP Hospitality Village and #SobeSeafood Week’s GOYA Culinary Pavilion, 14-16 chefs will go head-to-head in seven unique seafood showdowns and before you hit the pavilion, chefs will host battle pavilions where YOU sip, sample and VOTE on your favorites. And when we say sample, we mean “Good Luck trying to finish all 14-16 dishes”!
Chefs from each battle will take the stage throughout the night where representatives from the culinary and media world will judge the best in each showdown. The deciding factor are THE GUESTS! Help us decide the 2025 CHAMPIONS!
Friday, October 24, Chef Showdown is 21+.
TICKET BENEFITS:
What will you find with your Chef Showdown All Access Ticket? ($175 – All Inclusive)
- A chef-competition-beach-bash including an all-inclusive evening of epic proportions!
- Indulge at 22 restaurant battle sampling stations and VOTE on your favorite chef competition dishes. Then, head on over to the Jack Daniel’s LIVE STAGE, presented by GOYA Foods, to cheer on your favorite South Florida Chefs as they battle LIVE on stage with a panel of executive judges weighing in and MC’d by Food Network’s celebrity, Chef Robert Irvine.
- This year’s Seafood Chef Battles include Taco, Crab, Lobster, Sushi, Surf N’ Turf, Salmon, Shrimp, Ceviche, Seafood Pasta, Tuna, and an all new: EAST COAST VS WEST COAST competition
- · Dive into the full bars and experiential activations around the 1/2 block VIP Hospitality Village featuring a variety of cocktails brought to you by Tequila Herradura, Jack Daniels, Hendricks Gin, Irvine Vodka, Pacifico beer, and wines from Vineyard Brands showcasing Villa Bianchi’ Verdicchio, ‘Podere’ Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, and the ‘Vellodoro’ Pecorino and Gundlach Bundschu Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay
- Help us find the ultimate bartender by sipping, sampling, and voting in the Tequila Herradura Bartender Showdown
- Indulge in additional seafood bites from GOYA Foods
- Pop into the NEW First Horizon Bank Client Experience
- Stop by the Halpern’s Steak and Frites Sampling Station hosted by the official proveyor of the SOBE Seafood Festival
- · Dance the night away with Miami’s hottest DJ, DJ PaulE , on the Jack Daniel’s Live Stage, presented by GOYA Foods!
- And the fun continues…
Get your tickets at sobeseafoodfest.com and use promo code CGLOVE20 for 20% OFF your ticket price.
The South Beach Seafood Festival is all about mouthwatering seafood from local restaurants and participants. The festival brings together the top South Florida seafood chefs to create handcrafted gourmet seafood dishes that you won’t find anywhere else.
You’ll be able to enjoy seafood specialties such as:
- Seasonal stone crabs,
- Shrimp cocktail,
- Fish tacos,
- Fresh oysters,
- Lobster waffle cones,
- Seafood ceviche,
- And so much more!
Together, the restaurants will showcase an eating experience unlike any other, where the restaurants are serving you right on the sand – it’s four blocks of fun to be exact. Get your tickets go to sobeseafoodfest.com and use promo code CGLOVE20 for 20% OFF your ticket price.
See you in Miami in October for the best seafood festival in Florida!
SOBE Seafood Festival FAQS
When is the South Beach Seafood Festival 2025?
Enjoy the iconic South Beach Seafood Festival October 22-25, 2025!
Are children allowed at the South Beach Seafood Festival?
All ages are welcome at Saturday’s beach fest! Children under 10 enter for free on Saturday, October 25th!
Please note that in order to enjoy open bar, anyone under 40 must show valid ID to obtain a 21+ wrist band.
The rest of Sobe Seafood Week (October 23rd-25th) include events that are strictly 21+.
What should I wear to the South Beach Seafood Festival?
The dress code for the VIP events on Wednesday and Thursday is South Beach Chic.
The Chef Showdown on Friday and the Sobe Seafood Festival on Saturday take place on the sand. The dress code is Beachy/Festival Wear. Make sure to bring sand-friendly shoes and an outfit that will keep you cool in the Miami summer heat.
