FAIR HAVEN BAYFEST - Paella on the Bay-A 2022: Sunday, July 17, 2022
Colloca Wines are a perfect pairing for Our World Famous Paella! Or, maybe you’ll prefer a cold craft beer, Colloca cider, or Sangria!
We start with some of the best rice on the planet - Bomba rice sourced all the way from Spain!
Add to it delicious spices from around the world and Spanish saffron that is more expensive than GOLD!
Not just ANY seafood … the very BEST from Prince Edward Island to the North where Lake Ontario’s St. Lawrence River opens to the Atlantic.
Delectable Meats & Sausages headline our meat paella, while fresh vegetables with paella rice on their own comprise our Vegetarian and Gluten Free paellas.
The king of them all is our Deluxe Seafood Paella - with chorizo sausage, chicken, all the veg, mussels, littleneck clams, shrimp and garnished with 1/2 lobster. It is truly a sight to see.
Central New York’s Biggest Bash of the Summer!
Central New York’s biggest bash of summer will be held on the 900’ waterfront of Colloca Estate Winery on Sunday, July 17, 2022. It’s Fair Haven BayFest - The 13th Annual Paella on the Baya!
Enjoy authentic Spanish meat, seafood, and vegetarian paellas cooked over open flames in 42" monster pans overlooking the million-dollar views of Little Sodus Bay in Fair Haven, NY. Feast on authentic paellas and sip on Sangria, Colloca Estate's award-winning wines, Cold Craft Beers and enjoy LIVE MUSIC with Syracuse area favorites, Grupo Pagan and The Arcade all afternoon and evening.
Ticket pricing includes admission, free parking, music all day, and one monster plate of deluxe seafood, meat, or vegetarian paella. Additional paella plate tickets will be made available for those wishing to take a plate home or for a second plate (note, many people can’t even finish one-monster plate!). Paella will be sold by the plate served from 1 pm - 5 pm or until gone. Pre-sale tickets are available now and Deluxe Seafood Paella Plates are $65, Meat or Vegetarian Plates are $40.
Tickets may be reserved online by clicking on your choice above or by calling the Tasting Room at 315-947-2069. We do expect to sell out, so please purchase your tickets early to avoid disappointment.
Memories of Paella on the Bay-A 2021
Scenes from PaellaFest 2019
We Were Featured on News 3 in 2019
More from Paella’s Past
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Each year, authentic Spanish paella is cooked on three 42” monster pans that serve over 100 people each on the shores of Little Sodus Bay in Fair Haven. Paella (PIE-A-YA), a traditional Spanish rice dish hailing from Valencia, Spain can be prepared in many ways. Historically considered peasant food, the rice is simply prepared together with chicken and peas or beans or along with the local game, such as rabbit in small villages in Spain. In the many variations of the dish, seafood is added along with the local catch of the day.
When Oswego, NY native Dr. Chris Colloca traveled to Spain and experienced a neighborhood paella party he immediately thought about how much fun it would be to throw a paella feast for friends and family. Thus, the inspiration for the paella party arrived in Central New York. He ordered the huge pans from Spain and commissioned J&A Mechanical in Oswego to build their stands.
The first party was thrown 13 years ago. Over a decade later, the event has been named to celebrate the village the winery calls home - Fair Haven BayFest - Paella on the Bay-a, and draws food fanatics from across Central New York and further at Colloca Estate Winery, a pristine 100-acre property on the west side of Little Sodus Bay in Fair Haven, NY that features a tasting room, outdoor wine bar, wood-fired kitchen restaurant, and weddings and events venue.
Colloca’s iteration of the Paella recipe kicks it up several notches to include meat and seafood paellas that include chicken, andouille sausage, shrimp, mussels, littleneck clams, and a WHOLE LOBSTER garnish on top, and included over literally a ton of ingredients along with imported saffron, smoked and sweet paprika and other spices:
200 lbs of Bomba Rice imported from Valencia, Spain
300 lbs of Chicken
200 lbs of Shrimp
5,000 Littleneck Clams
500 lbs of Lobster
3,000 Mussels
120 lbs of Chorizo Sausage
100 lbs of Local Onions
200 lbs of Tomatoes
80 lbs of Green Peppers
80 lbs of Red Peppers
80 lbs of Orange and Yellow Peppers
40 lbs of Peas
200 Lemons
5 lbs of Parsley
Paella will be sold at the by the plate and purchase includes admission to the festival, free parking, music all afternoon and evening with Grupo Pagan (1-5 pm) and The Arcade (5-9 pm) and one monster plate of paella:
• Deluxe Seafood (chicken, andouille, shrimp, mussels, clams, and WHOLE LOBSTER): $65
• Meat (chicken, pork, andouille): $40
• Vegetarian: $40
Colloca Wine Club members save an additional 10% off the special online price!
We hope to see you here!
“Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.”
Deluxe Seafood Paella at Colloca Estate Winery’s Fair Haven BayFest - Paella on the Baya