Chefs For Farmers (CFF) is proud to showcase the talents of Texas’s best chefs and food artisans while celebrating the farmers that make great food possible. In one mouth-watering, libation-filled festival, we pay tribute to each CFF host city as an emerging culinary destination through incredible events and custom programming that highlight the entire culinary ecosystem in North Texas and beyond. Since its inception in 2010, CFF has grown from an intimate farm-to-table dinner in Dallas to one of the largest food and wine events in Texas. As good food citizens of the world, we balance our dedication to sustainability, eco-consciousness, and charity with our greatest goal: putting on the best food festival Texas has ever seen!

Since that first dinner back in 2010, CFF’s mission has been to organically connect restaurants and chefs with local, family farmers. Each participating restaurant is partnered with a local farm, using that farm’s ingredients for their featured dish at the festival. We provide each chef with an ingredient stipend to cover costs, which directly supports their partner farm.

At our core, our mission is to bring our local community together in efforts to create a strong, local food ecosystem. We aim to create connections before, during, and after the festival that in turn will strengthen our local food economy.

The festival has provided both chefs and farmers a platform to form cohesive partnerships with each other that can be leveraged well beyond the festival. And it works: many of our participating chefs come back to their partner farms to source locally grown ingredients for their restaurant menus. We hope the relationships fostered each year will continue strengthen our local food economy now and in the future.

HOUSTON: Sunday, October 2, 2022

DALLAS: Wednesday, November 2-Sunday, November 6, 2022

HOUSTON:
Our first Houston event will be hosted at the brand-new Autry Park, 3737 Cogdell St., Houston, TX 77019

DALLAS:
CFF Dallas events are held in various locations throughout the greater Dallas area. The festival’s signature Main Event on Sunday, November 6 will take place at Old City Park, 1515 S Harwood St, Dallas, TX 75215

Please defer to event specific pages for venue details on CFF intimate dinners and brunches.

Yes! Each CFF event benefits a variety of non-profit organizations to empower our local community.

HOUSTON:
For our inaugural year, CFF will be partnering with Houston Food Bank  and Urban Harvest as our official charity partners.  CFF contributions will support Houston Food Bank’s efforts in combatting hunger in the Houston area and Urban Harvest’s sustainable community gardens and farms.

DALLAS:
This year, CFF will be partnering with the Seed Project Foundation (SPF) as our official charity partner. SPF funds educational, agricultural, and community initiatives that support sustainability. Sustainability is a social challenge that improves the current quality of life without compromising future generations. The Foundation was established on the premise that funding sustainable ideas today will support ecological and social balance in the future. Providing seed money for causes that enhance the principles of sustainability is our mission.

Since 2020, the SPF has operated McKinney Roots, a food donation garden in McKinney that supplies fresh, organic produce to the food insecure by growing and distributing it to local nonprofits, churches, and schools. Proceeds raised through Chefs For Farmer efforts will directly benefit McKinney Roots’ capacity to support their nonprofit partners including the Samaritan Inn (Collin County’s only homeless shelter), Community Garden Kitchen, McKinney Little Free Pantry, Community Lifeline Center, and more.

Yes, all CFF events are 21 and older.  A Valid ID is required for admission at all events. If event security cannot verify your age, you will not be admitted into the event. Anyone under the age of 21 will be refused entry and tickets will not be refunded.

All CFF events are 21 and older. No children or infants (even in strollers or carriers) are allowed to attend any festival event.

While we love your furry friends, no pets are allowed at any CFF event. This does NOT include emotional support animals, therapy animals, or companion animals. Only service animals are permitted. Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities.

All service animals must remain by the handler’s side at all times and must be harnessed, leashed, or tethered, unless these devices interfere with the service animal’s work or the individual’s disability prevents using these devices. In that case, the individual must maintain control of the animal through voice, signal, or other effective controls.

Anyone bringing a service animal will be responsible for and liable for any damage or injury the animal causes.

For more information, please refer to the U.S. Department of Justice.

If you are attending an in-restaurant CFF dinner and have food allergies or dietary restrictions, please email info@teama21.com. The chefs at these events will do their best to accommodate special dietary needs, but we emphasize this is only a request. All requests must be received two weeks prior to the festival to ensure there’s enough time to prepare.

While chefs provide a variety of food offerings at our events, all major tasting events are unable to accommodate special dietary needs or food allergies.

Everything you need for a good time! Festival tickets are all-inclusive. Once you have purchased your tickets, there are no additional charges for food, drinks, or gratuity at any CFF event.

Upon purchase of a ticket(s), the purchaser will receive a confirmation email with the receipt for the purchase and the electronic ticket from our ticketing platform, Prekindle, within 15 minutes after the order is placed.

If you do not receive your tickets, please check your spam folder or email Tickets@prekindle.com

Most likely. There is a set capacity for each event and tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. We cannot expand the capacity of any event to accommodate additional guests.

You will get a confirmation email upon purchase. From there you can click the Your Tickets button and access print at home and mobile tickets plus add to your apple wallet.

Yes you can enter any CFF event with a mobile ticket.

All tickets are non-refundable. Ticket sales are final.

Ticket sales are final and cannot be exchanged. 

While many of our events are indoors, those that are outdoors will happen rain or shine! All tickets are non-refundable.

Tickets cannot be purchased at the door at any Chefs for Farmers event. Events do sell out quickly, so we encourage you to purchase your tickets early!

No, there is not a discount for people who do not drink alcohol. There will be a variety of non-alcoholic beverage offerings available at every official festival event.

There is no enforced dress code; however, we do ask you to dress in keeping with the nature of the event venue. Please check the weather and dress appropriately as some intimate in person events may be outdoors.

No large bags or backpacks will be permitted into the events.