Taste Of The Town: Bae Korean Grill Gets Ready For The Orange Bowl Food & Wine Celebration

Bae Korean Grill gets fresh for nan Orange Bowl Food & Wine Celebration

Bae Korean Grill gets fresh for nan Orange Bowl Food & Wine Celebration 03:06

Chef Xavier Torres is engaged successful nan room astatine Bae Korean Grill, offering a sneak peek of what's to travel astatine this year's Orange Bowl Food & Wine Celebration presented by Florida Blue, which takes spot Friday night. 

Both nan edifice and nan arena are housed wrong Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, wherever 40 section restaurants from South Florida will participate successful this year's extravaganza to observe food, drinks and entertainment. The arena supports Orange Bowl Cares initiatives, benefiting younker sports and education.

"We spell into schools and build media centers. It's each astir education, community, and giving backmost to younker sports," explained Orange Bowl Committee President Henri Crockett. "That's what Orange Bowl was founded on—coming into communities trying to make a existent impact."

Participating restaurants will bring their A-game arsenic attendees ballot connected favourite dishes, pinch chefs competing for coveted awards.

BAE Korean Grill won nan 2024 Orange Bowl Food & Wine Celebration

Bae Korean was a victor past year, and Torres feels assured astir their chances this year.

"I'm not nervous. I'm utilized to it," he said. "All we person to do is service really bully food, beryllium assured successful what we're doing and what we're serving, and make bully interactions pinch our guests. That's what we do each nighttime anyway."

Bae Korean Grill is owned by half-brothers Hai Nguyen and Eric Douglas, who person created a cool vibe wrong this eye-catching spot that attracts some locals and tourists.

Regarding their information successful nan Orange Bowl Food and Wine Celebration, they emphasized nan value of community.

"That's thing that's really important to america because you're giving backmost to nan organization because they're nan ones giving backmost to us," Nguyen explained.

And, they're assured astir their chances of winning again.

"We're ace competitive," Douglas added. "There's nary uncertainty astir that."

Bae Korean besides features grill tables wherever meats and seafood are cooked tableside. This year, they're entering 3 dishes:

1. The drunken Wagyu beef cones topped pinch golden flakes—crunchy, cold, and delicious
2. Tuna tataki served pinch a caller crunchy crockery connected top
3. Galbi jjim, their signature dish—short rib braised for 24 hours, described arsenic "pure decadence"

For tickets and much information, sojourn orangebowl.org.

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