Who’s excited for the Denver Food & Wine Festival???? The Denver Food + Wine Festival event is a multi-day extravaganza of food, wine, and sprits events, presented by the Colorado Restaurant Foundation and Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. Festival events feature the best of metro Denver’s restaurant community (over 40 participating restaurants), the finest wines and spirits, educational tasting seminars, and the signature Grand Tasting. The event is the largest annual fundraiser for the Colorado Restaurant Association’s foundation and all of the proceeds go to support their two main yearly initiatives: the Colorado ProStart program, a culinary training program for high school students across Colorado, and the Angel Relief Fund, a hardship fund that provides grants for restaurant employees in need due to emergencies, health and medical issues/bills, therapy, etc.