At the annual Taste of Bethesda, you can sample food from more than 50 restaurants, enjoy five stages of live entertainment, and visit the kids’ corner for crafts, face painting, and balloons. Downtown Bethesda restaurants prepare large quantities of food and baked goods for the festival. For example, Hard Times Café makes 20 gallons of chili and 200 pounds of French fries; Haagen-Dazs goes through more than 60 gallons of ice cream; Mamma Lucia serves over 800 slices of pizza; and Spring Mill Bread Company serves 1,000 slices of apple pies, brownies, cookies, and breads.
As Downtown Bethesda continues to grow, several new restaurants will debut at Taste of Bethesda this year: Community, George’s Chophouse, Medium Rare and TapaBar. Returning favorites like Georgetown Cupcake, Jaleo, Louisiana Kitchen & Bayou Bar, Mussel Bar, Olazzo, Ruth’s Chris and many more will also be in attendance this year.
Date and Time
October 7, 2017, 11 am to 4 pm
Location to
along Norfolk, Fairmont St. Elmo, Cordell and Del Ray avenues in Bethesda’s Woodmont Triangle. Read more about Bethesda
Parking
Free parking is available in downtown Bethesda public garages. The closest parking lots to the event can be found on Del Ray, Auburn, Cordell and St. Elmo avenues; and at the corners of Old Georgetown Road and Woodmont Avenue, Woodmont Avenue and Edgemoor Lane, and Wisconsin Avenue and Cheltenham Road. The free Bethesda circulator will transport visitors to and from the Bethesda metro station and public garages.
Entry
free. Tasting tickets are sold on site in packages of four tickets for $ 5. Each serving of food costs one to three tickets.
Participating restaurants
- Benihana
- Bethesda Curry Kitchen
- BGR The Burger Joint
- Brickside Food and Drink
- Trolleys in Cordell
- Chef Tony’s Seafood
- Community
- Duck Duck Goose
- Flanagan’s Harp & Fiddle
- Fresh Baguette
- George’s Chophouse
- Georgetown Cupcake
- Guapo’s Restaurant
- Gusto Farm to Street
- Haagen dazs
- Hanaro sushi
- Fuss
- Kadhai Boutique Indian Cuisine
- Le Pain Quotidien
- Louisiana Kitchen & Bayou Bar
- Mamma lucia
- Moderately rare
- MoMo Chicken + Grill
- Morton’s, The Steakhouse
- Mussels Bar & Grille
- Olazzo
- The original pancake house
- Passage to India
- Peet’s Coffee and Tea
- Penang Malaysian Cuisine
- Quartermaine coffee roasters
- Redwood Restaurant & Bar
- Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery
- Ruth’s Chris Steak House
- Shangri-la
- Silver
- Smoke barbecue
- King Smoothie
- Starbucks
- Suma Restaurant + Bar
- Tandoori nights
- TapaBar
- Tapp’d Bethesda
- Tommy joe’s
- Sweet’s Tout Pastry
- Tropical Smoothie Coffee
2017 Taste of Bethesda Entertainment
Albino Rhino, Band of Us, Chopteeth, Hayley Fahey Band, Lea Morris (winner of the 2017 Bernard / Ebb Songwriting Awards), Lloyd Dobler Effect, Patrick Alban Band and Signature Live will fill the Woodmont Triangle during Taste of Bethesda. The cultural music and dance stage will feature the Carpathia Folk Dance Ensemble, Culkin Irish Traditional Dance School, Nomad Dancers, Soul in Motion and The Wild Zappers and the National Dance Theater for the Deaf.
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