Park City launches inaugural Chef’s Table Festival with 70 chefs
Park City’s new Chef’s Table Festival could fill August tables and hotel rooms with 70 chefs, more than 100 events and a premium package priced at $15,000.
Park City’s restaurants and hotels are about to get a rare August boost when Chef’s Table Festival Park City brings 70 global chefs and more than 100 events across more than 30 local venues. Scheduled for Aug. 13-16, the four-day festival is being positioned as the first large-scale culinary event of its kind in town, with the biggest payoff likely landing far beyond celebrity name recognition. For Summit County, the real question is whether the festival becomes a prestige headline or a new source of bookings, dining traffic and late-summer shoulder-season spending.
Presented with American Express and Resy, the event centers on chef-driven lunches, dinners, demonstrations and intimate experiences tied to Netflix’s Chef’s Table series. The most exclusive ticket package, Be a Chef, is priced at $15,000 and includes behind-the-scenes kitchen access and immersive time with participating chefs. With programming spread across Park City restaurants and venues, the festival has the potential to move diners into local dining rooms, bring overnight guests into hotel beds and place the town’s food scene in front of visitors planning trips around cuisine as much as alpine scenery.
Local chefs are already treating the festival as more than a publicity moment. John Murcko of Firewood on Main, Pierce Everett of Goldener Hirsch and Briar Handly of HANDLE have all pointed to the value of cooking alongside chefs they have followed for years and trading techniques with peers from outside Utah. Jennifer Wesselhoff, president and CEO of the Park City Chamber/Bureau, has framed the festival as part of Park City’s four-season economic strategy, with the area’s culinary identity serving as both a cultural asset and a business draw. That matters in a resort town still dependent on seasonal travel patterns, because food events can help stretch visitor spending beyond ski season.
Park City has hosted chef-driven takeovers before, including a second annual culinary event at St. Regis Deer Valley in March 2026 that brought Geoffrey Zakarian and Jeff Mauro back to the mountains. Chef’s Table Festival Park City is a far larger bet, built to turn a single weekend into a broader marketing statement about Summit County’s dining depth. If it works, the payoff will not just be the national attention that comes with chefs linked to a hit television franchise, but the longer-term business for local restaurants, hotels and the operators who want Park City to be known for more than winter.
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