Exciting Return of the Barbados Food & Rum Festival & O2 Beach Club & Spa

After a brief hiatus courtesy of a worldwide pandemic, the Barbados Food and Rum Festival returned last October with a star studded, four-day destination event featuring the best of Barbados’ culinary scene. This year, the festival is back from October 19th-22nd 2023, and it’s promising an even more spectacular display of talent from Barbados’ most renowned rum producers and chefs, as well as other top international culinary personalities.

There are star studded events planned throughout the duration of the festival at five star locations including the O2 Beach Club & Spa, an official host hotel for the 12th annual Barbados Food and Rum Festival. This beautiful resort will feature events such as an intimate cooking demonstration with celebrity chef Anne Burrell (host of the Food Network show ‘Secrets of a Restaurant Chef’, co-host of ‘Worst Cooks in America’, ‘Iron Chef’, ‘Chopped All-Stars Tournament’) on October 20th and a meet and greet dinner with native Bajan celebrity chef Renee Blackman (featured on Netflix's ‘PRESSURE COOKER’, Food Network's ‘Chopped’ and ‘Kitchen Crash’ and has been featured in Ebony Magazine, Huffington Post, New York Post) on October 21st. 

The O2 Beach Club & Spa is a boutique, luxury resort hotel that sits on the South Coast of Barbados, away from the corporate-brand crowds and within its own blissful cove of the Atlantic. Along with its family-friendly counterpart, Sea Breeze Beach House, another official host hotel of the festival, travelers can get 60% off their stay when booking through Ocean Hotel's Food & Rum Festival special. Booking details can be found here for O2, here for Sea Breeze and more festival information can be found here.