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Taste of Chicago 2016
July 6, 2016 - July 10, 2016
FREE
Kari’s favorites Da Lobster and Firecakes Donuts join the TASTE this year!
The Music
The festival will present a diverse mix of award-winning, crowd-pleasing acts with headliners including The Roots, KONGOS, The Decemberists, Billy Idol and The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald and Ernie Isley.
The Food
69 restaurants will participate at the 36th Annual Taste of Chicago – the world’s largest free food festival – this July 6–10 in Grant Park. Showcasing Chicago’s diverse culinary scene, this year’s expanded list of five-day vendors, pop-up restaurants and food trucks will offer Taste-goers an endless variety of dining options to suit every palate.
Taste of Chicago is excited to welcome 20 newcomers to the event in 2016 – including three new five-day restaurants, six new food trucks and 11 new pop-up participants who will sell for one or two days. The new food vendors are: Abundance Bakery; Arami; Auntie Vee’s; BRGRBELLY; Da Lobsta; Demera Ethiopian Restaurant; Doom Street Eats; Firecakes Donuts; Frannie’s Café Inc; Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken; The Happy Lobster Truck; La Jefa; La Patrona; MAD Social; nana; Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine; Pork & Mindy’s; Rojo Gusano; Taco in a Bag and Texas de Brazil.
All 69 vendors will offer signature items, as well as the popular “Taste Of” portions priced at $2.50 or less, allowing guests the opportunity to sample an even greater variety of items. Many will also include Humana Healthier Choice selections for those seeking lighter options. Admission to the Taste of Chicago is FREE, and tickets for food and beverages can be purchased in strips of 12 tickets for $8.50.
CH Distillery Spirit Lounge plus Beer and Wine Gardens
New this year, the CH Distillery Cocktail Lounge will offer mixology specials to enjoy by Buckingham Fountain. The cocktail menu includes Moscow Mules, Tropical Rum Punch, Whisky Sours and Limoncello Slushies.
The beer and wine gardens offer another scenic place to enjoy. Visitors can pair their Taste food with beer choices including Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois, Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale, Goose Island IPA, Straw-Ber-Rita, Lemon-Ade-Rita, Hoegaarden, Shock Top Lemon Shandy, Goose Island Green Line Pale Ale, Leffe Blond, Landshark Lager, Redbridge Gluten-Free Red Lager, Goose Island Summertime, Kolsch, Stella Artois Cidre, Goose Island Four Star Pils and Estrella Jalisco. This year’s wine offerings will be announced closer to the event.
Admission to the Taste of Chicago is free, and festival hours are 11am–9pm, Wednesday through Friday, and 10am–9pm, Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets for the seating area at the Petrillo Music Shell will go on sale Friday, April 29, at 10am at the Taste website, tasteofchicago.us.