Taste Of Chicago

This is a neat idea, it’s just pretty expensive and incredibly crowded… you can’t even walk.

...gone to the ToC several times, but not for a few years. Awesome, I just love going to this festival. We live about 80 miles s/e of Chicago in a rural town, and going to the city, surrounded by tens-of-thousands of people wandering around, eating, drinking, listening to music… it’s just such a site. To guess, I’d say I’ve gone to the ‘91, ‘92, ‘94, ‘98, ‘99 and ‘00. We also saw several free concerts while at the festival.

I was at the 2000 Taste Of Chicago.
I LOVED IT!

Empty stomachs and spare money’s all that’s required for a gastronomic adventure.

I was fairly excited. Once I arrived, however, I realized that this is one of the more grotesque celebrations of consumption (both literal and figurative) that I’ve ever attended. If you don’t like the mall, don’t plan on spending long at the Taste. If you don’t like watching unhealthy people eat expensive samples of dozens of different styles of food from all over the country, don’t go. If, on the other hand, you can manage to ignore all the people around you and you know how to stay cool on hot days in big crowds and you like food a lot, by all means, get your Taste on!

I’m going up to Chicago this weekend, so maybe I’ll be able to go on the last day… but maybe not. If not, I’m not sure I would really care or not. It sounds like fun. I bet it’s really crowded right now!

The best food anywhere! My main complaint is that it’s overpriced, for what you get. That said, everyone who visits Chicago the week before the Fourth of July should experience the Taste at least once.

This was fun, but the day we went was soooo hot out! We only stayed an hour, because it was just to hot to walk around outside! I had a good time for the short time we were there, though, and I would love to go back sometime, when it’s not so hot! LOL.
A word of advice, though: take a cab or something like that! Parking was ridiculously high when we were there! If I had known that, we would’ve left the car at home & taken the train!

expensive-ish, but if you go in on it with a friend, it’s SO worth it.

it’s a bit pricey… but if you’re here during this time you better GO