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The Bahamas’ Big Culinary Festival Has a Daniel Boulud Truffle Dinner and Cocktails With Marcus Samuelsson

By: Caitlin Sullivan - June 12, 2025 - 1:31 pm

Truffle dinner with Daniel Boulud. Cocktails with Marcus Samuelsson. For five days this October, Baha Mar turns those bucket‑list bites into reality during the fourth‑annual Bahamas Culinary & Arts Festival.

Baha Mar has released the full schedule for its fourth‑annual Bahamas Culinary & Arts Festival, a five‑day program of food, drink and visual‑arts events that will run Oct. 22–26, 2025, across the resort’s Grand Hyatt, SLS and Rosewood properties.

Resident headline chefs Marcus Samuelsson (Marcus at Baha Mar Fish + Chop House), Dario Cecchini (Carna) and Daniel Boulud (Café Boulud) will be joined by visiting culinary personalities Geoffrey Zakarian, Amanda Freitag, Carla Hall, Maneet Chauhan, Scott Conant and Simeon Hall Jr. Beverage programming includes sessions with spirits writer Noah Rothbaum, sommeliers Amanda McCossin and André Mack, and Bahamian mixologist Marv “MrMixx” Bahamas.

The festival opens Oct. 22 with Boulud’s annual Truffle Dinner at Café Boulud and the debut of an expanded FUZE Art Fair. Running the length of the festival, FUZE will showcase works from more than 70 artists representing 14 countries and over 40 galleries, including pieces by Shacqueel Coleby, John Paul Saddleton and June Collie.

Returning signature events include the Coconut & Cocktails day party hosted by Samuelsson and Conant; The Art of Brunch with Freitag, Hall and Chauhan; Flamingos and Flocktails; and the Jazz Club Happy Hour with The Essence Band.

New for 2025 is The Kitchen Masterclass Series, an interactive cooking session at Baha Mar’s culinary studio led by Zakarian, Chauhan, Freitag and Hall and moderated by Bon Appétit editor‑in‑chief Jamila Robinson.

Individual event tickets are on sale now at bahamar.com/bahamas‑culinary‑arts‑festival, priced from $100 to $500 per person. Weekend packages start at $599 plus tax for a Gold Pass and $899 plus tax for a Platinum Pass, which offers early entry to select chef experiences. Guests can bundle passes with room packages at the Grand Hyatt, SLS or Rosewood Baha Mar.

Additional chef appearances and art programming will be announced in the coming weeks.

Launched in 2022 as a two‑day tasting, the Bahamas Culinary & Arts Festival has expanded each year, adding masterclasses, gallery collaborations and live‑fire beach dinners. Attendance has tripled since its debut, drawing more than 5,000 food‑and‑art lovers to last year’s edition. The expansion of FUZE Art Fair into a five‑day program this year cements the festival’s dual identity as both a culinary summit and a regional arts showcase.

Art is a major focus at Baha Mar, something we learned more about on a recent visit to the resort. 

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