Taste of Chamblee

As I imagined, this place wasn’t full or crowded as the bf and I arrived here to meet up his friends. One was performing so we were there for the food, freebies, and of course support. :)
Located near the Chamblee Police Station, parking was up to you if you can find street parking. There wasn’t really a designated area for the festival goer.
Food tickets were $ 1 apiece, and you can be pretty content since you can find samplings for one ticket to five or more. It really varies depending on the food booth. The bf bought ten tickets, and we were able to share a good amount.
The festival is free to attend. There were corn hole games that were free and the stage will have free entertainment. The Chick-​fil-​a cows were out and about so there were pic opportunities as well.

Taste of Chamblee is one of the many annual street festivals that is held in Georgia.
This is a smaller event, with around 20 – 30 local restaurants, most of them ones that I personally never even heard of and the event is sponsored by the Chamblee Chamber of Commerce. The staff was very friendly and helpful. We arrived later in the day, so they told us to only buy a few food tickets as many of the vendors were out of food.
The majority of food festivals are cash based; this festival requires that customers purchase tickets. They are each one dollar, however they can be purchased in packages of 30 for $ 25 and I believe 50 for $ 40 or something like that. The majority of items are about 1 – 3 tickets, so everything was extremely reasonable in price. There is plenty of free parking throughout the area, many retailers posted signs allowing people to park on their property and they had a lot of parking at the post office.
The event raises money for the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation which is a fantastic cause. They are a not-​for-​profit that provides eye surgery, eye exams, hearing aids, children vision programs and eyeglasses for those who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
They had live entertainment throughout the day with 5 bands, lots of arts and crafts for sale and some beautiful classic cars on display. I was surprised to see so many bikers too, that was probably because they had lots of beer at the festival too (wine as well). For the kids they had pumpkins, face painting, balloons, tattoos and some freebies given out by the Chamblee Police department.
This was their 3^rd annual Taste of Chamblee and we definitely look forward to the next one, but will certainly make sure to arrive earlier.
I’d recommend this event.
[Review #213]

Got to check out this food festival today and it was almost by accident! I think it is going on tomorrow also. Many Chamblee restaurants made an appearance here. It is $ 1 per ticket and you can usually get a big meal for only a few tickets. You can get 25 tickets for $ 20 though and I think 50 tickets for $ 40-​$ 45. I saw Mad Italian, Union Hill Kitchen, this hot dog place, the chocolatier across the street from marta, Galla pizza, kaleidoscope?, sweet hut, and many other places I hadn’t heard of before. Sorry I am bad at remembering names of places haha. There were also other vendors such as AJC, the Dekalb County Library, the Passport office, Impression Sports?, as well as things to do for kids. I also saw a stand from Red Hare, which I believe is a bar in Marietta, but they were a sponsor of the event. They had live music and the weather was great. Parking wasn’t an issue either. Awesome event to hang out at for a couple of hours! I would highly recommend going tomorrow if you are looking for something fun to do outdoors.

This is a small food festival in the heart of downtown Chamblee in October. A one day only event (Saturday), it bring together local restaurants with some local beer selections. Not a huge, sprawling food fest by any means, and that is one of the main reasons why I liked it so much. There weren’t 10,000 people and their screaming children running around and being annoying. Just the right amount of locals, it seemed. I had never heard of a majority of the restaurants, and now that I’ve sampled a few, I imagine that I will be back to try substantial portions.
Tickets were about 1 $ ticket, with specials such as 25 $ for 30 tickets. I went with two other friends, so we split the tickets so each of us had 10 tickets. I think that was a good amount of tickets per person.
Some of the local restaurants were as follows:
Union Hill Kitchen
La Costilla Grill
Vino Venue
The Mad Italian
Kaleidoscope Bistro and Pub
Gallas Pizza
The Frosty Caboose
Old Blind Dog
Hello Gorgeous Café
Vintage Pizzeria
Lucky’s Burgers & Brews
Maison Robert
Sweet Hut
Chamblee Bistro
Hovan
Wing Factory
Each place ranged in tickets – from 1 – 3. The places I sampled were Sweet Hut, where I sampled the bubble tea and an amazingly fluffy, light, moist cupcake (sans frosting) for 4 tickets altogether. I also tried a Lucky’s Burger, which they called a slider but was, very easily, the size of a burger at a fast food joint, with a much better taste. Hello Gorgeous was giving away complimentary pineapple lemonade samples, which were very refreshing. There was also a really tasty taco stand where they offered 3 mini tacos for 3 tickets, and they were very tasty.
THE VERDICT:
All in all, it was actually a free food festival, and a ticket or wristband wasn’t even required. There were a lot of delicious food options from Greek, to boba tea, to pizza and pretty authentic tacos, even. There weren’t a ton of annoying people, and parking was pretty easy to come by. For someone who works in Chamblee/​Dunwoody and lives in Sandy Springs (about 14 miles away), it was nice to sample restaurants and visit the Chamble Square, because I’ll definitely be going back to a few of these restaurants for more.