Wolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills Autumn BBQ Returns October 18 With Nancy Silverton, Bell's and Priedite Barbecue

Seventeen chefs across twelve restaurants, cooking over live fire in the Golden Triangle for No Kid Hungry.

The Beverly Hills Autumn BBQ returns for its second year on Sunday, October 18, 2026, from 6 to 9 p.m. in Beverly Cañon Gardens, the 33,000-square-foot park at 241 N. Cañon Drive, next door to The Maybourne Beverly Hills. Spago Beverly Hills, The Maybourne and the City of Beverly Hills co-host, with United Card Events from Chase presenting.

Expect live cooking stations and pop-up bars set among the gardens' greenery and fountains, plus live music, wine and spirits tastings, a silent auction and a live art installation. The evening raises money for No Kid Hungry, the national campaign working to end childhood hunger in America.

The Full 2026 Beverly Hills Autumn BBQ Chef Lineup

Per the official roster from the City of Beverly Hills and The Maybourne, with dishes as reported by Time Out Los Angeles:

The Beverly Hills home team

• Wolfgang Puck and Byron Puck, Spago Beverly Hills

• Damon Gordon, The Maybourne Beverly Hills, with Spanish-style California lamb, white beans and pimentón dulce

• Brooke Martin and Della Gossett, a joint dessert station from The Maybourne and Spago

• Dominick DiBartolomeo, The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills

Los Angeles

• Nancy Silverton and Alisa Vannah, Chi Spacca, with grilled lamb ribs in a spiced red wine glaze

• Burt Bakman, SLAB, bringing Texas-style barbecue

• McKenna Lelah and Matthew Kim, Lapaba, the Koreatown room pairing Korean cooking with Italian pasta

• Jorge “Joy” Alvarez and Victor Delgado, Tacos 1986

The Central Coast contingent

• Daisy Ryan, Bell's, Los Alamos

• Nicholas Priedite, Priedite Barbecue, Los Alamos

• Frank Ostini, The Hitching Post, Buellton

From farther out

• Daniel Castillo, Heritage BBQ, San Juan Capistrano, with smoked beef cheeks on tallow-fried corn tortillas and salsa macha verde

• Eric Werner, Hartwood, Tulum, with wood-fired prawns, chipotle mezcal and piña cacahuate salsa

Why This Lineup Is Better Than It Looks on Paper

Three things stand out once you read past the headline names.

Santa Barbara County is sending three kitchens. Bell's has held a Michelin star since 2021 and Daisy Ryan was a Food & Wine Best New Chef in 2020. Priedite Barbecue built its following on Central Texas-style smoked meats and handmade beef tallow tortillas. And Frank Ostini has been grilling over Santa Maria red oak at the Hitching Post for decades, which makes him arguably the most authentically on-theme cook at a live-fire barbecue in Beverly Hills.

The Los Angeles bench is deeper than last year too. Lapaba brought Korean Italian pasta to Koreatown and is one of the more interesting young kitchens in the city, and Tacos 1986 is a genuine street-level name on a very polished guest list.

And the dessert and cheese stations are not an afterthought. Della Gossett is Spago's pastry chef, and a dedicated cheese station from The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills at an outdoor barbecue is the kind of detail that signals the organizers thought about the whole arc of the evening.

Cocktails and Pop-Up Bars

The bar roster matches the kitchen:

• Renato “Tato” Giovannoni and Alex Resnik, Florería Atlántico, Buenos Aires

• The mixologist team from Dante Beverly Hills, which lives inside The Maybourne

• Matt Maretz and Dimitri Vasilakis, Employees Only, New York

What We Have Our Eye On

Silverton's lamb ribs and Castillo's beef cheeks on tallow-fried tortillas top our list, with Werner's wood-fired prawns right behind them. Hartwood helped put Tulum's open-fire cooking on the map, so a night with Werner in Beverly Hills is a rare one. Ostini's red-oak grilling is the sleeper pick.

For more live-fire cooking around town, our guide to where to eat live-fire food in Los Angeles has the year-round list, and Chi Spacca is where Silverton's grill program lives the other 364 days.

For No Kid Hungry

The inaugural Beverly Hills Autumn BBQ in October 2025 donated $50,000 to No Kid Hungry. This year, 100 percent of silent auction proceeds go to the campaign, with lots that include five donated Ferragamo bags. New York artist Marco Gallotta will create an original paper-cut artwork live in the gardens, so guests can watch the process up close.

Tickets and the Early-Access Lounge

Tickets were $300 at the early-bird rate through September 30 and are now $350, plus tax and gratuity, through The Maybourne. The event is open to all ages, valid photo ID is required at the door, and all sales are final and nonrefundable. Tickets stay on sale up until the event begins.

New this year, United MileagePlus Cardmembers get early access from 5 p.m. to a private lounge inside The Terrace Restaurant and Maybourne Café, with reserved seating, dedicated waiter service, passed Champagne, canapés and tableside wine pairings.

Getting There

Beverly Cañon Gardens is at 241 N. Cañon Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, in the Golden Triangle a block from Rodeo Drive, adjacent to The Maybourne Beverly Hills at 225 N. Cañon Drive. A municipal parking garage runs beneath the gardens.

Lineups and menus are set by the organizers and can change. Confirm before you go.

Sources: the City of Beverly Hills event listing, The Maybourne Beverly Hills experiences page, Wolfgang Puck's Instagram lineup announcement, and Time Out Los Angeles (October 7, 2026), with 2025 details from The Maybourne's announcement of the inaugural event. Food Journal Magazine has not yet attended the Beverly Hills Autumn BBQ.

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