Food & Wine Festival 2025
- Thread starter Nicole
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I heard the budget for the on-sign audio was cut... now the sign only spells Poland.
My shirt today! Went to the NATO festival today in DT Norfolk. Stopped by the Polish booth too.
Well....this event is off to a bit of a rocky start. Multiple booths on Sunday were out of items by 2pm/3pm. The kiosks were not printing the vouchers correctly. Which made them difficult to use. Several food items were either poorly prepared or had been sitting too long and dried out. The perogies were dry and extremely hard. They were out of the onion jam. So, they though a good solution was to saturate them with sour cream. The Kolackzi tasted like basic biscuit batter, dry and unmemorable. Mexico had no sopapilla cheesecake. The peri peri chicken, which used to be a good solid item, was way overcooked and dry. The coconut in the rice gave the impression of eating undercooked rice and added no flavor. I know its the first weekend, however this not the first year. BG should know how to run this event.
Advice for a Food and Wine first-timer on a semi-budget? I’m willing to spend a bit, but I’m a grad student so go easy on my wallet please
Look at all the menus, add up the few items you wanna try and then determine if the Pass is worth it or not. Maybe ask around on what items to stay away from. Don't use your pass on the $8 items because you wont get a bang for your buck. The $12 items and up is what you save on with the pass
Yes. You can get drink samples on that too. My husband and I usually get that for the day along with our free vouchers.
The Brazil food!!!; Steak, Sausage and Lamb is where its at. The smell of that food cooking is intoxicating and wafts from Invadr all the way to Griffon!
Must say I was somewhat disappointed this year with the food selection. Food preparation itself was largely good, but there's a noticeable amount of menu overlap and even more alcohol sales focus in what looks like pure profit maximizing maneuvers- e.g. I lost count of how many places had slider variations.