Taste of Buffalo Presented by Tops Announces $1 Tickets to Simplify Food Festival Experience
List of 2019 Restaurants, Food Trucks, and Wineries Includes Ten New Offerings
May 1, 2019, BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops today announced a change to the value of the festival’s food and beverage tickets. For the first time, each ticket will be valued at $1, a modification that is designed to simplify the experience for visitors.
Food and beverage tickets will continue to be sold in $5 sheets at three ticket tents located throughout the festival. Menu items from restaurants and food trucks will remain between one and five tickets ($1 and $5). As always, admission to the Taste of Buffalo is free. The 36th annual food festival takes place July 13 and 14 along Delaware Avenue from Johnson Park to Niagara Square in downtown Buffalo – a footprint that event organizers expanded past Chippewa Street for the first time last year.
“With our new $1 tickets, Taste of Buffalo visitors will benefit from the ease of an even exchange on all food and drink,” said Matt Testa, 2019 Taste of Buffalo chair. “For budget-conscious families and individuals, this change makes it easy to track how much everything costs, including menu items from our restaurants, food trucks, wineries, beer tents, and non-alcoholic beverage stands.”
Tickets were previously sold in fifty-cent increments.
The Taste also released the complete lineup of restaurants, food trucks, and wineries that will participate in the 2019 food festival. Fifty-seven restaurants, including ten new ones, along with six local wineries will be onsite.
The list includes:
- (716) Food & Sport
- A Gust of Sun Winery & Vineyard
- Alex’s Place
- Anderson’s Frozen Custard
- Applebee’s
- Bavarian Nut Company
- Black & Blue Steak and Crab
- Bravo! Cucina Italiana
- Buffalo Soul Catering*
- BW’S Barbecue
- Cali Eats*
- Caribbean Experience
- Carmine’s
- Cecelia’s Ristorante
- Cheesecake Guy food truck
- The Cheesy Chick food truck
- Chiavetta’s BBQ Takeout
- The Chocolate Bar*
- Chrusciki Bakery
- Clarence Center Coffee Co. & Café
- Dalmatia Hotel*
- Danny’s Restaurant
- Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
- Dirty Bird Chicken N’ Waffles food truck
- The Draft Room*
- Eli Fish Brewing Company*
- Fat Bob’s Smokehouse
- The Flaming Fish food truck
- The Hilltop Restaurant & Bar*
- India Gate
- Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill
- Just Pizza food truck
- Lloyd Taco Trucks
- Local Kitchen and Beer Bar
- Louie’s Hot Dogs
- Merritt Estate Winery
- Mineo & Sapio Street Eats food truck
- Mister Pizza
- Niagara Café
- Niagara Landing Wine Cellars
- Nick Charlap’s Ice Cream
- Osteria 166
- Patina 250
- Paula’s Donuts
- Pizza Amoré The Wood Fire Way
- Rachel’s Mediterranean Grill*
- Rolling Cannoli Truck (Powered by Panaro’s)
- Rowhouse Bakery & Restaurant*
- Ru’s Pierogi food truck
- Salvatore’s Italian Gardens Restaurant
- Schnitzel & Co.
- SEAR
- Sidelines Sports Bar & Grill
- Souped Up! food truck
- Spring Lake Winery
- Stack Burger
- Sweet Life Dessert Experience*
- Sweet Melody’s
- T.C. Wheelers Bar & Pizzeria
- Taste of Siam
- Three Brothers Wineries and Estates
- Victorianbourg Wine Estate
- Water Lily Café
*Asterisks in the above list designate new restaurants participating in the Taste for the first time.
Event hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 13 and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 14. Beginning Sunday, June 9, participating Tops Markets will sell pre-sale Taste food ticket vouchers at the registers. Vouchers are available in $10 or $50 increments and are redeemable at Taste of Buffalo ticket tents. Each $50 voucher comes with a coupon good for four free non-alcoholic beverages.
Menu items and additional event details will be announced soon. Visit tasteofbuffalo.com for more information.
About the Taste
The Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops is the nation’s largest two-day food festival, attracting more than 450,000 visitors each year. The 36th annual Taste will take place on July 13 and 14, 2019, along Delaware Avenue from Johnson Park to Niagara Square in downtown Buffalo. The Taste is a not-for-profit organization with more than 1,000 volunteers helping to put on the annual event. To date, more than $500,000 has been raised at the festival for local charities in addition to five $1,000 scholarships awarded annually to local high school seniors pursuing a culinary or hospitality-related degree. For more information, visit tasteofbuffalo.com, and find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.