It’s food, fireworks and flavor at North Texas’s largest event dedicated to all things food June 12-14 in Dallas’s Fair Park. Taste of Dallas presented by Ford is set to satisfy hungry tasters who love to stroll Dallas’s Fair Park and taste from restaurants all over North Texas.
In honor of its long-standing partnership with the American Heart Association, the charity beneficiary of Taste of Dallas, this year experience a new Heart Healthy Sunday. All restaurants will be making heart-healthy fare, and there will be free screenings and CPR training, family-friendly entertainment, jump rope teams and more fun ways to learn about good-for-you food, healthy activities and more that contribute to overall well-being. Help kick off Heart Healthy Sunday by lacing up your sneakers and participating in the HeartStrong 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run in Fair Park to raise money for heart disease research alongside legends of the NFL.
Also new for this year is a VIP tasting experience within Taste of Dallas called Taste the Difference, which celebrates and elevates the art of the meal. A separately ticketed event for 21 and up only, this fantastic foodie experience produced by culinarian Scott Jones is a culinary tour for your tastebuds through the best restaurants in North Texas, all within the Centennial Building at Fair Park. Complete with wine, beer and spirits tastings, chef interactions and mixology madness, this is an event not to miss. Celebrity chefs including Dean Fearing, Brian Zenner, Kirstyn Brewer, Omar Flores, Anthony Van Camp, Jeff Harris, Bob Stephenson, Scott Gottlich, Abraham Salum, Uno Immanivong and Randall Warder will star at the event. Please visit TastetheDifferenceDallas.com for details and tickets. Use #TTDDallas to follow all the action!
Because we love our BBQ, new for this year is a Celebration of BBQ. From brisket to ribs, chicken to pork, taste your way through the best BBQ in DFW from more than a dozen BBQ restaurants and local pitmasters. Samples are available from $1-$4 from restaurants including Eddie Deen’s, Riscky’s, Hard Eight, Smoke to the Bone and more, making it easy to taste around and find your own personal favorites while finishing every finger-lickin’ good bite. You won’t want to miss the $25,000 BBQ Battle Royale with 18 professional BBQ teams from across the Southwest will stampede into Taste of Dallas’s Celebration of BBQ to duke it out for cash and bragging rights. . The Kansas City Barbeque Society-sanctioned event will take place on Sunday, June 14, with the awards presentation at 5 p.m.
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Beyond BBQ is a collection of exciting North Texas restaurants and food trucks set to deliver a tasty experience. Restaurants including Fat Rabbit, Texas de Brazil and Winners BBQ offer up their best fare for only $1-$4. Or park it at Taste Curbside, where you can sample from some of North Texas’s best food trucks including: Bellatrino, Misha’s Food Truck and Best Bayou Bites. There is no better way than Taste of Dallas to taste cuisine from more than 50 of Dallas’s best restaurants: with no entrée more than $4, participants have the opportunity to savor plenty of different tastes without breaking the bank.
29th Annual Taste of Dallas Presented by Ford
Dallas’ Fair Park (1200 S. Second Ave, Dallas, TX 75210)
Parking is available at Fair Park, or attendees can ride the DART to Fair Park Station
Friday through Sunday, June 12-14
5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday
One-day admission is $12 per person at the gate or $9 per ticket at Walgreens. Kids 10 and under are FREE with accompanying parent or guardian. [Please note: Taste the Difference VIP Indoor Tasting Experience is a separately ticketed event for 21 and up only. Visit TastetheDifferenceDallas.com/Tickets for details.]
Available via the website, www.tasteofdallas.org, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tasteofdallas.org, on Twitter @TasteofDallas or via phone at 972.587.6090.
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