I cannot believe it’s already that time of year!! The Taste of Chicago is coming up soon and Mayor Rahm Emanuel has put out the full vendor list! Now if you don’t know I’m from Chicago (best city in the world! PERIOD) and for the past 38 years we’ve had The Taste of Chicago.
The Taste is for food, fun, music, and sweating. You buy tickets and those tickets get you food for any of the almost 100 vendors out there. You literally get a taste of some of Chicago’s finest. It’s usually held in July and this year it will be from the 11th-15th in Grant Park. Artists like Trey Songz and Erykah Badu have graced the Taste’s presence, and I’m excited to see who’ll be there this year. Below is the list of food you can expect at the Taste (courtesy of Timeout). Who’s all going??!
New vendors:
Aloha Wagon
Arun’s Thai Restaurant
Aunty Joy’s Jamaican Kitchen
Bee Nana LLC
bettyBOT Shop
BITES
Blackwood BBQ
CheSa’s Gluten Free Food Truck
Chiya Chai Café
Classic Cobbler
Esperanza’s Kitchen Delights
Garifuna Flava: A Taste of Belize
Get Off The Couch Catering
Grill City (Seafood City)
Josephine’s Cookin’
Lawrence’s Fish & Shrimp
Output Lounge & Sports Bar
Papa Luke’s Gravy Balls
Premier Rollin BBQ
Sausagefest
So Forking Great
Sun Wah Barbecue Restaurant
These Wingz?
Turtle’s Bar & Grill
Wood Fire Counter
Yum Dum
Returning vendors:
Beat Kitchen
Billy Goat Tavern
BJ’s Market & Bakery
Buona Beef
Caffe Gelato
Carbon Live Fire Mexican Grill
Chicago’s Dog House
Churro Factory
Connie’s Pizza
Dia De Los Tamales
Doom Street Eats
Franco’s Ristorante
Frannie’s Café Inc
Gold Coast. Dogs
Iyanze
Kasia’s Deli
La Bomba Restaurant
La Mexicana
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
O’Briens Restaurant & Bar
Original Rainbow Cone
Porkchop
Ricobene’s on 26th Street
Robinson’s No. 1 Ribs
Star of Siam
Texas de Brazil
The Eli’s Cheesecake Co.
Tuscany
Ukai Japanese Restaurant
Vee-Vee’s African Restaurant
Pop-up restaurants:
Broken English Taco Pub
Hakka Bakka Indian Kati Rolls
Just Salad Chicago
MAD Social
Pork & Mindy’s
Seoul Taco
Warm Belly Bakery
Food trucks:
American Glory Food Truck Chicago
Auntie Vee’s
Aztec Dave’s Food Truck
Beavers Coffee + Donuts
Da Lobsta
Giordano’s
Harold’s Chicken
La Cocinita Food Truck
The Fat Shallot
The Lifeway Kefir Shop
