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Sharing broadly as Gina Mariko Rosales is the most awesome entrepreneur I've never seen!

Gina runs an amazing women-owned creative events agency and they are launching their newest FESTIVAL here in the Bay Area! 🤩

🍷 POC Food & Wine Festival
🗓️ May 2 – 5, 2024
📍 , Berkeley & , San Francisco, CA

It's the FIRST POC Food & Wine Festival in the Bay Area happening on May 2-5 - a 4-day festival experience like no other 🎊 Created by Make it Mariko - the same event producers of the award-winning Filipino Night Market - POC Food & Wine Festival is a celebration of the global majority and our allies, in food, wine, music, and culture.

The festival will highlight multiple events throughout the weekend featuring some of the most talented diverse creatives, tastemakers, chefs, fashionistas & entrepreneurs in the Bay Area and beyond. Some Chefs were featured on Top Chef, are James Beard nominated, and Michelin starred so it's a really amazing lineup!

Let's help support our local small businesses!

Here are just a few of the amazing folks being featured:

🍽️ 🍲 CHEFS








🍷 🥃 WINE, SPIRITS & BEV






🎧 🎵 DJs & MUSIC







🎟️ Tickets are now LIVE at pocfoodandwine.com/tickets

Tickets - POC Food & Wine Festival // May 2-5, 2024 SF Bay Area Celebrating the global majority in food, wine, music, and culture. Get your tickets now before they sell out!

Took myself on a date for sushi and chawanmushi (my favorite)

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