Our trip this year is at the end of our AP that we activated last year for F&W, so we're about a week earlier. And many of the special dinners were hard to book since they weren't even happening for our dates. BUT, we did get the French Family Meal Tradition (third time) on the day we leave for home, Oct 4. I had to promise Bill that I would drive us home so he could enjoy the wine (I can't drink any wine because of my medication, so it's not a problem). We've had such great meals at this in the past we wanted to do it again. We'll have to see how going to the first one of the festival goes.
We also booked the Mediterranean Food & Wine Pairing at Spice Road Table because was we walked past Spice Road Table last week during Flower & Garden, Bill said he's like to try there some time. Any one have any experience with this one? I'm not as adventurous a diner as Bill, but I'll make do.
We did the Italian Regional Food & Wine Pairing twice and the one last year wasn't as good as the first one we did. We also did the Italian Beer & Wine pairing a few years ago and it was pretty good.