Website: https://toast-nashville.com/
Toast Nashville is a curated, multi-day culinary festival held in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring food, wine, spirits, and music. The event brings together local and national celebrity chefs for a series of tastings, dinners, demonstrations, and live music experiences. The festival is organized and produced by 360 Marketing & Events. It is presented as an immersive food-and-beverage event that combines chef-driven programming with a large public tasting and entertainment.
Services
Toast Nashville is described on its website as “a specially curated culinary 3 day experience.” Event offerings featured across its editions include:
- Grand Tasting, the main tasting event, featuring breweries, wineries, distilleries, and exhibitors; the site references 30 or more participating beverage and food exhibitors
- Celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and tastings
- Celebrity chef pairing dinners
- Celebrity chef brunches
- Bourbon and tequila tastings
- Chef meet-and-greets and book signings
- Live music and DJ performances
These components are spread across the multi-day format, allowing attendees to choose among individual experiences such as a pairing dinner, a brunch, or the grand tasting. The festival pairs culinary programming with live music and DJ sets to create an event atmosphere across its various sessions.
The festival has featured a roster of celebrity chefs across its events. Names referenced on the website include Maneet Chauhan (described as a chef, author, restaurateur, and entrepreneur, and featured as a centerpiece of a recent edition), Robert Irvine, Rocco DiSpirito, Kevin Des Chenes, and Alex Belew, among others. Chef appearances typically include demonstrations, tastings, and meet-and-greet or book-signing opportunities for attendees.
About
Toast Nashville is presented as an annual culinary celebration set in Nashville, combining chef-driven dining experiences with a large-format grand tasting and live entertainment. The website documents multiple past editions, including 2023 and 2024 events, and includes a photo gallery from prior events. The festival pairs national and local culinary talent with Nashville’s food, beverage, and music culture, and is produced by an events company that also manages its sponsorship and exhibitor relationships.
Location & Contact
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee
- Organizer: 360 Marketing & Events
- Phone: (860) 985-0087
- Email: [email protected]
Contact for the event runs through its organizer, 360 Marketing & Events, rather than a standalone festival office. The festival is held in Nashville, Tennessee; specific venue details for a given edition are published through the event’s ticketing and schedule information.
Additional Information
The website includes sections for chefs and appearances, sponsors (partners and exhibitors), and tickets and event schedule, along with a photo gallery from past events. Sponsorship, partnership, and exhibitor opportunities are highlighted for breweries, wineries, distilleries, and other food and beverage businesses, reflecting the festival’s reliance on participating beverage producers and vendors for its grand tasting. Attendees and prospective partners are directed to the event organizer, 360 Marketing & Events, for tickets and additional information. Because the festival operates on an edition-by-edition basis, its chef lineup, schedule, and ticketing details are updated for each year’s event, while the overall format of chef-driven dinners, brunches, demonstrations, tastings, and a grand tasting remains consistent across editions.
Profile compiled from the company’s official website (toast-nashville.com).