Taste of Bethesda returns to the Woodmont Triangle today, Saturday, October 7, 2023, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The event will be held on Norfolk, St. Elmo, Cordell, and Del Ray Avenues. Entrance to Taste of Bethesda is free; taste tickets cost $5 for four tickets, and beer and wine tickets are $8 each. Restaurants joining Taste of Bethesda for the first time this year include CHIKO, Hawkers Asian Street Food, Good Ducking Burger (which just opened this past week), Maman, The Organic Butcher, Planta and Tacombi. Live music performances (also free) will be held on four stages, and there is a children's area offering arts and crafts activities.
Taste of Bethesda is organized by the Bethesda Urban Partnership. Sponsors of this year's event include Suburban Hospital, Amazon Fresh, The St. James fitness club, Renewal by Andersen, and MoCo 360. Watch for street closures (and pedestrians) in the vicinity of the event. Parking is available in public garages around the Woodmont Triangle.
Here is a list of all restaurants participating in today's event:
Benihana
Casa Oaxaca
Ceremony Coffee Roasters
CHIKO Bethesda
Delhi Spice
Dog Haus Biergarten
Eat The Change/Just Ice Tea
Fialova
Georgetown Cupcake at Bethesda Row
Good Ducking Burger
Guapo’s
Hawkers Asian Street Food
Kadhai Boutique Indian Cuisine
Levain Bakery
Luke's Lobster
Maman
Mamma Lucia
Medium Rare
MI Café at Marriott International HQ
Moby Dick/House of Kabob
Mon Ami Gabi
Nothing Bundt Cakes
The Organic Butcher
The Original Pancake House
Planta
Poke Dojo & Kusshi
The Red Bandana Bakery
Rock Bottom Bethesda
Seventh State Restaurant & Lounge
Silver
Smoke BBQ
Smoothie King
Spanish Diner
Tacombi
Tout de Sweet Pastry Shop
World of Beer
Photos courtesy Bethesda UP
Too many people in one place, excessive lines for tix & especially "crab cakes" offering booths, boom boom boom music is distracting me while trying to watch the Orioles game. And yes, I attended the very first Taste. I'm glad the money supposedly goes to charity, but the days of The Nighthawks playing on a stage right in front of Tastee Diner are sorely missed. Enjoy, and I hope you all get food poisoning.
ReplyDeleteI don't eat when there's no running water.
DeleteWeather started out rainy, but cleared in time for a successful event. Congrats to all of the participating restaurants. And to 12:17, you jinxed the Orioles. Nice going.
ReplyDeleteHaha! I would never eat the food. It did remind me of swine brought to trough, I can't imagine too many locals being stupid enough to pay for subpar and miniscule tasting portions, so it was probably the greater MoCo contingent being fleeced. $8 beer and $5 coffee after waiting in two lines... oh you stinking sheep, you deserve what you get!
ReplyDeleteIt's the annual event that brings the tourists to the Triangle.
Delete12:17 and 3:08: The kill joys are out in force.
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Does 12:17 think it is cool to say they hope attendees get food poisoning? And if 3:08 believes that thousands of locals are stupid swine or "stinking sheep," is he also hoping to slaughter us all? Just nasty snark. Attendees were there to have fun, something these writers do not know how to do.
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