Question: What year was the first Atlanta Food & Wine Festival held?
Answer: 2011. The first-ever Atlanta Food & Wine Festival was a weekend-long event held in May 2011 at a tented green space in Midtown Atlanta to celebrate the culinary achievements of chefs across the South. The annual event has grown to feature more than 200 acclaimed chefs, sommeliers, mixologists, and culinary insiders and draws food-lovers from all around the world to sample and savor flavors of the South.