2025 Paradise Island Wine and Food Festival Features Baha Men and Bobby Flay
If you’ve ever fantasized about dining and drinking like the celebrities, the Paradise Island Wine and Food Festival is the event for you.
Returning to Atlantis in the Bahamas for its third consecutive year, the 2025 festival will feature celebrity chefs Bobby Flay, Kardea Brown, Katie Lee, and Michael Symon. They will be joining returning culinary talents Alon Shaya, JJ Johnson, José Andrés, and Michael White, alongside master mixologist Tony Abou-Ganim.
There will be ample opportunities to connect with your favorite chefs throughout the four-day festival, which will take place from March 12 to March 16. Highlights include the Goombay Cookout tasting event hosted by Brown, a Paradise Picnic led by Lee, and a wine dinner with Flay at the resort’s scenic Ocean’s Edge bluff.
The three signature night events have become the highlights of the festival, with former Bachelor Matt James and his then-girlfriend Rachael Kirkconnell praising the Jerk Jam, Tacos & Tequila, and Taste of Paradise events during the 2024 festival.
“From jerk shrimp corn dogs to piña colada rum cake, jerk jam was amazing 🇧🇸🔥🍹,” James shared alongside a video from the Jerk Jam in 2024.
In 2025, the taco and tequila fiesta, hosted by Symon and Abou-Ganim, will feature a performance by Baha Men on Thursday, March 13. The following day, Flay and local Bahamian restaurateurs will present Taste of Paradise. On the festival’s final night, Saturday, March 15, the beloved Caribbean dish Jerk will be celebrated by Johnson and Brown, featuring a performance by Shaggy.
Wyclef Jean has previously been invited to perform at the festival in 2023 and 2024, expressing nothing but admiration for the crowds and the culinary offerings.
“The conch out here — that conch salad is addictive. The rice — let me tell everybody something, man, I overdosed on that rice. I ain’t gonna lie,” Jean told Us Weekly at last year’s event. “The jerk chicken was fantastic. But the conch … this is the best conch in the world.”
As per tradition, the Wine & Food festival supports the Atlantis Blue Project Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and conservation of coral reefs and marine life in the Bahamas.
Tickets for the Nassau Paradise Island Wine & Food Festival are now available for purchase at npiwff.org.
