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Shirley Chung, Tobias Dorzon and More Superstar Chefs Celebrate New Chapters at South Beach Wine & Food Festival

At the festival's 25th anniversary, comeback stories, new restaurants and next acts took center stage alongside the food.

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary over the weekend with a cavalcade of Food Network superstars and other A-list culinary talent. As always, it was a weekend of delicious food, copious alcohol and fans swooning over their favorite cooking-competition stars, who happily soaked up the love. It was also a weekend about rebirth, renewal and next acts.

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“For South Beach this year, I get to represent my new restaurant that I just opened in Dallas, which is Night Rooster,” chef Shirley Chung told Observer on Friday, 10 hours before the Antonia Lofaso-led team of Chung, Stephanie Izard, Tobias Dorzon, Joe Sasto and Jonathon Sawyer won the festival’s Tournament of Champions Live event. “When I saw the banners at the festival, you should have seen me laugh, knowing that I’m back. I’m really back.”

It was a remarkable moment for Chung, who........

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