SAVOR Returns to Omni PGA Frisco April 30 with a Five-Event Lineup of Food, Wine, and Celebrity Golf

SAVOR returns to the Omni PGA Frisco Resort & Spa this Thursday for its second annual run, with four days of food, wine, music, and celebrity golf programming spread across April 30 through May 3. The 2026 lineup is built around five distinct events, two of which are already sold out, and the chef roster pulls together nationally known names alongside Texas-rooted operators with deep Dallas-Fort Worth connections.

For a festival that launched only last year, the programming density and the caliber of the talent reflect how aggressively Omni and PGA Frisco are positioning the resort as a year-round culinary destination on top of its golf identity. The 660-acre PGA Frisco campus already hosts ongoing programming through the resort, the PGA District, and the Fields Ranch courses, and SAVOR slots into that ecosystem as the marquee food event of the calendar.

The Chef Lineup

The headlining names on this year’s roster are recognizable from television, James Beard awards, and the kind of national press coverage that draws ticket buyers from outside the immediate region. Scott Conant, Dean Fearing, Tiffany Derry, Esther Choi, Shota Nakajima, Elizabeth Blau, Kim Canteenwalla, and Kevin Lee are all confirmed for the 2026 event. Maneet Chauhan, the James Beard Award winner and Food Network presence, joins the lineup, as does Top Chef alum Tiffany Derry — who is also a Dallas-Fort Worth fixture through her local restaurant work.

The chef mix matters for a festival like this. Big names sell tickets, but the on-the-ground experience depends on whether the chefs are actually present, cooking, and engaging with attendees rather than just lending their names to the marketing materials. SAVOR’s event-level structure — multi-course dinners, grand tastings, and brunches — is designed around chef interaction, which gives ticket holders the kind of access that justifies the price points.

The Five Events

Masters of Taste Dinner — April 30 The festival opens Thursday evening with a multi-course dinner that puts the marquee chefs into a dinner format. Limited tickets remain for this event as of this week.

Fork and Fire Grand Tasting — May 1 The Friday tasting event is sold out. Grand tastings at this scale typically feature multiple stations representing different chefs, with attendees moving through the venue at their own pace and sampling dishes alongside curated wine, cocktail, and beer pairings.

SAVOR Par 3 Celebrity Golf Challenge — May 2 The Saturday golf event is sold out. The format pairs amateur ticket holders with celebrity chefs and special guests on the Par 3 course at PGA Frisco. Combining golf with chef interaction is part of what differentiates SAVOR from other regional food festivals — the format takes advantage of the fact that PGA Frisco has the golf infrastructure to make it work.

SAVOR Grand Tasting — May 2 The second Grand Tasting of the festival runs Saturday and is the larger of the two tasting events. Limited tickets remain.

Margaritas and Mariachis Brunch — May 3 The festival closes Sunday with a Tex-Mex brunch event featuring margaritas, mariachi music, and brunch programming. Limited tickets remain for the Sunday brunch.

The Resort and Campus Context

PGA Frisco itself is a public-private partnership between the PGA of America, Omni Hotels & Resorts, the City of Frisco, and Frisco Independent School District. The campus includes the Omni resort, the Fields Ranch courses, the PGA District commercial area, the PGA of America’s headquarters, and the Northern Texas PGA. SAVOR is one of the larger consumer-facing events the campus hosts, but it sits within a programming calendar that runs across the year.

The resort handles the operational side of SAVOR — the room blocks, the food and beverage service infrastructure, the event venue management. This is the kind of festival that depends on operational scale that smaller venues cannot deliver. A four-day, multi-event format with this many headlining chefs needs the kitchen, service, and logistics capacity that a full-service Omni resort can provide.

Beyond SAVOR

For Frisco residents who are not attending SAVOR but who want to plan for what comes next at PGA Frisco, the campus has been preparing for the 2027 PGA Championship. Ticket registration for the 2027 Championship opened on April 6 and remains open through May 18. Registration is the first-come, first-served queue mechanism that the PGA uses to manage demand for major championship tickets.

The 2027 PGA Championship will be the first PGA Championship held in the Dallas-Fort Worth region in roughly 60 years, and it represents the long-term anchor event that PGA Frisco was built around. SAVOR, the resort’s regular programming, and the broader campus development all benefit from the fact that PGA Frisco has a defined major championship on the horizon.

What This Week Looks Like in Frisco

Beyond the SAVOR window, Frisco’s spring 2026 calendar is in its busy phase. The Frisco RoughRiders are in their home stretch of April baseball at Riders Field, the city’s commercial corridors are running their normal weekend programming, and the broader Dallas-Fort Worth event calendar — which Frisco draws from and contributes to — is in the spring stretch before summer programming takes over.

For SAVOR specifically, the next four days will be the festival’s defining stretch. By Sunday evening, the second annual SAVOR will be in the books, and Omni and PGA Frisco will start planning year three.