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A Quickie With Lee Brian Schrager

Let's be real, he's barely got time for a quickie

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Matt Meltzer
Oct 29, 2025
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Photo courtesy SOBEWFF

The South Beach Wine and Food Festival has become kinda like Christmas: Every year, it seems like we’re hearing about it earlier and earlier. I mean, geez, we’re a month out from Basel, and tickets for SOBEWFF went on sale this Monday. For those of us who don’t even know what we’re having for lunch tomorrow, that’s a lot of lead time.

But Lee Brian Schrager didn’t get to where he is by doing things at the last minute. The Chief Communications Officer & Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is also the Festival Founder & Executive Director SOBEWFF® and its counterpart in New York. He’s one of the biggest names in the Miami hospitality world, and he took some time to chat with us about his life with leftovers, and the long list of things he doesn’t eat.

Name: Lee Brian Schrager

Nickname: Nope.

Childhood leftover memory: I can’t recall any because my mother cooked for five people who devoured, so whatever was there …

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