Kings of Leon, a band featuring the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, and My Morning Jacket get the headlining slots at this year’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, which will be placing a heavier emphasis on food and wine for its third annual outing.

The festival, which will be held Aug. 14 and 15 at Golden Gate Park, will feature food from more than 20 local restaurants and suppliers, among them Asqew Grill, Let's Be Frank, Maverick and Yats. Among the wineries participating are pinot noir hotbeds DeLoach Vineyards, Peay Vineyards, and Copain Wines, cabernet sauvignon producers Hess Collection, Murphy-Goode Winery and Silverado, zinfandel champs Ridge Vineyards, Preston Premium Wines, and Bedrock Wine Co., and Rhone specialists Bonny Doon Vineyard and Unti Vineyards.

Food and wine will share the bill with the Strokes, Phoenix, Social Distortion, Levon Helm, Al Green, Gogol Bordello, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Janelle Monae, Vieux Farke Toure, the Temper Trap, Budos Band, Dawes and others.

Two-day tickets go on sale  at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and single-day tickets become available at 10 a.m. Sunday. Lower-priced "eager beaver tickets" sold out within a day when they went on sale May 7.

Now in its third year, Outside Lands has celebrated the four pillars of Bay Area culture: music, food, wine and technology. On the tech side, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications is a partner for this year’s event.

Restaurants set to participate in the festival include:

• Andalu: Serving sliders and crispy mac & cheese.
• Asqew Grill: Serving cilantro lime chicken skewers Texas BBQ chicken skewers, portobello mushroom skewers, Asqew Grill's famous ribs.
• Charles Chocolates:  Serving organic s'mores, French-style hot chocolate, and frozen hot chocolate.
• El Huarache Loco: Serving authentic Mexico City food.
• Evergood Fine Foods: Serving sausage sandwiches (pineapple, Louisiana hot link, Italian, chicken apple) and Cajun corn dog.
• Farmerbrown's Little Skillet: Serving fried chicken, mac & cheese, heirloom watermelon slices, mini pecan pie, and red velvet cupcake.
• Full of Life Flatbread: Serving wood-fired flatbread pizza.
• Gordon Taqueria: Serving chicken, beef and carnitas burritos.
• It's-It Ice Cream: Serving  It's-It vanilla, mint, cappuccino,  and the original ice cream sandwich.
• Let's Be Frank:  Serving 100 percent grass-fed beef hot dog, family-farmed pork bratwurst, and pasture-raised turkey dog.
• Maverick: Serving Cincinnati BBQ pulled pork sandwich.
• Mission Minis: Serving  gourmet mini cupcakes in  aztec chocolate, ruby red velvet, and cinnamon horchata flavors.
• Namu: Serving  Korean tacos, chicken yakitori, and loco moco.
• New Ganges: Serving samosas, chicken curry plate, and Indian vegetarian plate.
• Pacific Catch: Serving Hawaiian poke, Baja shrimp ceviche, and sweet potato fries.
• Philz Coffee: Serving handmade coffee blends brewed one cup at a time.
• Pica Pica Maize Kitchen: Serving arepas, maize'wich, and cachapas filled with a combination of shredded beef, pulled pork, ham, black beans,plantains, cheese or vegetables.
• Split Pea Seduction: Serving farmto-fork soups, salads and sandwiches.
• Ti Couz: Serving sweet and savory crepes.
• Yats New Orleans Original Po'boy: Serving  duck and venison sausage jambalaya, BBQ shrimp po'boys and snowballs.

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