Metro Cooking and Entertaining Show

General admission tickets are $24.50 and include access to the Exhibit Floor, Cooking Stage, and Tasting and Entertaining Workshops. The exhibitor marketplace features 100+ vendors selling specialty food products, kitchen gadgets, gizmos and accessories and everything for your entertaining needs. The Cooking Stage is an intimate venue for getting up close and personal with the finest chefs in your city as you watch their 45-minute cooking demos. Seating for 125 is first-come, first-served. The 30-minute sessions are taught by industry experts and will expose you to delightful and unique specialty foods and entertaining ideas. Seating for 48 is first-come, first-serve, but there's a new workshop every 30 minutes in two workshop areas.

The Celebrity Theater is our 3,000+ seat theater where the celebrities present live from the kitchen stage. We offer theater style, assigned seating. Prices vary by section. The presentations are approximately one hour. All Celebrity Theater tickets include complimentary general admission for that day only to the exhibit floor.

Celebrity Theater Schedule: $65 to $400
• Paula Deen
– 1:30 p.m. Saturday
– Noon Sunday
• Bobbly Flay
– 11 a.m. Saturday
– 4 p.m. Saturday

Book Signing with Bobby Flay: 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Included in the $250 package.