Hungry? Here's Your Guide to the Taste of Edmonds

Hungry? Save your appetite for this weekend. A Taste of Edmonds kicks off Friday and runs through Sunday. 

To get yourself (and your stomach) ready for the culinary festival, below are full event details and the entertainment lineup.

• Who: The Edmonds Chamber of Commerce presents
• What: 31st annual A Taste Of Edmonds
• When: Aug. 9-11, 2013 (Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
• Where: Civic Playfield, 310 6th Ave. N, Edmonds
• Admission: $4 (12 and under free)

Free Shuttle: Coldwell Banker Bain Realty of Edmonds will be making it easy to visit the Taste by dropping folks off at the festival entrance on 7th Avenue. Parking and shuttle are free! The busses will depart and return to Edmonds Woodway High School every 15 minutes beginning 11 AM Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Food Booths: 35 food booths selling a wide range of tasty options, including items such as piroshky and German bratwurst; blackened salmon and chicken adobo; piping hot crepes and cold ice cream; and drinks from lemonade, to mango lassis and natural fruit smoothies. And don’t forget, there are adult beverages available in the beer and wine gardens.

Covered dining areas will be available for those who wish to take shelter from the sun, and more have been added for this year’s event.

Don’t miss the annual Taste Off competition on Friday at noon, during which food vendors will go head-to-head to see who has the best main dish, side dish and dessert. The winners will display banners over their booths throughout the festival.

Wine Garden: This year the Wine Garden is pouring a fabulous selection of wines from Washington and around the world, sponsored by Edmonds native Jeff Boyer UNCORKED, and World Wines at Home.  

Beer Garden: While enjoying a frosty cold one, visitors can rock along to the tunes performed on the Beer Garden Stage. (see Entertainment below). 

Arts and Crafts Booths: Dozens of arts & crafts vendors will be on hand all weekend long, offering original, hand-crafted jewelry, art, photography, cloth- ing, pottery, glass, leather items and more. Pick up a one-of-a-kind gift for someone you love — or something special for yourself.

Kids’ Area: There are plenty of activities for the kids at A Taste of Edmonds, from pony rides to bouncy inflatables to an enormous rock wall to climb. Add free craft activities and plenty of booths with kid-related goods, and they’ll burn off all the sugar they can eat.

Entertainment: Three stages of entertainment (main stage, beer stage and kids stage) will feature a different lineup of performers all three days. Some of the bands include The Beatniks, British Export (Beatles Tribute), Afrodisiacs and Spazmatics, among many others. 

Click here for the full entertainment line up.

Additionally, look for roaming performers from clowns to dancers on stilts.

Edmonds Petanque Club: Members of the Edmonds Petanque Club will be on hand all three days of the festival in the Wine Garden to give interactive demonstrations of this elegant “boule” game.