Parking can be quite tough but worth it once you snag a spot. It's quite lively even the walk in if…read moreyou park over 10 blocks away. The costumes are always the classics and so many that are trending that year of. Lots of group costumes and it runs pretty late from 5pm to 4am. Great open streets style gathering walking music photo taking opportunities. 99% of people dress up if not 100% of people and lots of people get very elaborate with the costumes.

This year was really fun! Good vibes and great costumes!…read more Must go early, parking is really hard to find if you show up late. Also bunch of the fast food and fast casual restaurants ran out of food around 9pm because of so many people. The lines to get into any of the bars and clubs got really long as the night went on. Overall still super fun night.

I kind of tagged along in this one. I didn't quite make the Yelp Elite invite cut, so I had to buy…read moremy own ticket. There were like 20-40 vendors subscribed to the event, and most of them, were just the restaurants within maybe a 8 block radius. You had to walk from restaurant to restaurant, shop to shop, to try their food out. It was an all you can eat fest, for those who can get there... I actually liked this event, one of the biggest challenges of maintaining my Yelp Elite status, is... Maintaining my weight. It is not easy to spend all workout time traveling to these distance places and finishing off as many plates as I do, without some sort of consequence. I hope my readers appreciate the great sacrifice I undergo for them with every review I write... "Like and subscribe!!!!" That being said, this event was hosted during cool and breezy weather, and the distance between vendors was pretty short. The vendors also featured some interesting flavors, some where more safe, a few were more experimental. Check out my pics, it was a good event, you got to try a lot of different foods, and also, get your exercise in. I'm absolutely certain I probably gained weight after the event, but without the walking, probably would've gained more. Reminded me of how I used to sample foods when I traveled. Walk around, smell something good, I'd walk into the store and pay for it.

This was my first time coming to this event, and I had such a great time! (Shout out to CM TD for…read moresetting this event up for the yelp elites!) As a local, I love supporting neighborhood restaurants & this one supports not only the participating restaurants in South Pas, but also the rotary club! After arriving 20 minutes before the event started, it was pretty busy. The main hub and starting point for the TOSP (taste of south pas) was at the Canoe House. If I were to say "what is my high and low of the event?"... -- The low was only that it was a little unorganized with the volunteers from the rotary club members /TOSP entrance.. after standing in a line for everyone, when I got to the front of the ticket registration area to get a wrist band , 2 of the volunteers had no idea what the yelp guestlist was ... and no one to ask for awhile.. so I walked around and got out of line to be told to get back in line (still no one I approached knew what to do with the Yelpers. I found a fellow yelp eliter and we looked together and luckily found our CM to tell us what to do.) The highs of the event? -- It was fun to see the community out supporting and walking in groups to the same participating eateries. Loved getting to know the food from the area that I haven't tried and walking around south pasadena. The food at the canoe house (an organized non-self serve buffet style) was delicious. This event would be described as a food crawl. Each spot handed out small, tapas-style samples. The absolute standouts for us were the tacos at the park, the soup dumplings from Dumpling Tops, and the ice cream from Handel's. -- I brought my main squeeze and we both enjoyed the cozy section of vendor booths!! My favorite was the sake school tastings I received from the sweet Japanese workers who said they actually have an on site school in little tokyo and also do virtual events. Honestly the vendor booth area with the diverse drink tastings (wine, sake, beer, tequila, specialty drinks like the sake seltzer, etc). Tips and hacks? -- Definitely wear walking shoes. You don't need a big bag or purse as they give you an event one to carry your goodies and a glass for your drinks -- Parking? Street parking only. I ordered a Lyft so I can't speak to the parking for the event really. I do know that there are nearby houses if you don't mind walking a few blocks.. .(and a trader joes nearby) lol. To give some context, the only frame of reference for a food festival that I've attended is Masters of Taste at the Rose Bowl for the past 5 years, and while this is a much smaller, community-focused event, it's a total hidden gem. We definitely believe this is a fantastic community event that locals should experience at least once for a fun night out, even if it's not necessarily something you need to repeat every single year. All and all, I would definitely come again next year to support the community =)

***LA Foodie's Float Trip Review***…read more Needed to wait until I calmed the F down to write this review. I was pretty excited to go to this event. Ice cream + beer = beer floats. What's not to be excited about? Event was from 4-7p so I arrived around 4:30 thinking it was perfect timing...wrong! So many things wrong, I barely know where to being. Problem #1 - while angel city brewery is rather large, the parking lot legit has space for about 7 cars. Given that the event had anywhere from 150-200 tickets sold, parking was atrocious. It took me 20-25 minutes to find parking & I only did so when I gave up & headed to little Tokyo to park in a paid lot. Problem #2 - Finally walked over to angel city to find a long ass line. My friend was already waiting for me in line so thankful I was able to scoot in with her. No one at angel city explained what this line was for. All they said was that there was a ticketed & non ticketed line (meaning tickets to the event or not). That was fine for 5 minutes but this line wasn't moving at all. At some point I found out that the venue was at capacity & it was 1 in 1 out. It would have been nice to know this, not to have had to figure it out by counting the people going in & out myself. The other really uncool thing was that they were alternating between letting in people from the ticketed vs. non ticketed line. While I understand to some extent, I paid to get in this joint/event! These other people did not so why am I not getting priority? After waiting about 30 minutes, I was finally IN (on top of the 20-25 to find parking). I checked in only to have to wait in another line to get beer for the floats. I should note that the folks at the check-in were extremely apologetic & sympathizing about the line & the wait. While it still sucked, it was nice that they were concerned about it. After that everything went much smoother....basically after I got my beer + ice cream 1 hour after I initially arrived. There were several issues, some of which were caused by the venue. 1. There was an engagement party & a birthday party going on at the same time. Why would you have 3 events during the same time? 2. No one explained why the hell we were waiting in this awful line to get in for so long. 3. The venue was not a good choice given the parking situation vs. the number of tickets sold to the event. The only reason I'm giving this a 2nd star is because of the LA Foodie staff. They went out of their way to express concern & were very sorry about the issues so that helped easy the stressfulness. Overall it was poor planning on both the venue & the event coordinator's side.

this is what Yelp is all about. Never been to this area .yelp had brought me to the area . then I…read morewent inside only to find yelp at the area .. cool event I got my tee I love la. yelp was @ event for promotional good time. thanks for the yelp swag for me n my hubby who love yelping and check ins . great customer service .

An annual event for the past two years in Oakland, the Eat Real Festival came to LA for the first…read moretime this weekend for a two-day celebration of regionally-sourced, sustainably-produced and just plain good food. Held at the Helms Bakery District in Culver City, the festival itself was free to attend, with all food costing $5 or less. Part street food festival, state fair and block party, the event featured numerous food trucks and other food vendors, food skills demos and contests, a craft marketplace, music and educational workshops. What I LOVED: * FREE ADMISSION! * Vendors carefully chosen who provide REGIONALLY-SOURCED and SUSTAINABLY-PRODUCED food and drinks. Among the treats we enjoyed: - Hot dog from Let's Be Frank - Goat cheese from Drake Family Farms, drizzled with honey from Backyard Bees - Pulled pork slider and pork candy from Bigmista's BBQ - Burger and watermelon fresca from the Green Truck - Hawaiian shaved ice from A Rockin Ice and a snow cone from Sno-Con Amor - The flatiron, pork slider, grilled squash and fried cauliflower from the Flatiron Truck * Free SHUTTLES to/from the festival from numerous parking lots/locations throughout the area. Also easy to access by PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. Plus a free BIKE VALET. * Manageable crowds and lines (of course it's better early though). * With lots of food skills WORKSHOPS, DEMOS and even CONTESTS, the event is also very educational and fun to watch. We loved the Chicken Breakdown and the Flying Knives Butchery Contest (two teams of master butchers had to each cut up a 300+ lb steer hindquarter). * Stations well-staffed by FRIENDLY VOLUNTEERS to help you sort your TRASH, RECYCLABLES and COMPOSTABLE items. Also stations for you to refill your water bottles. My friend and I were at the festival on Saturday for most of the day (11 am - 7:30 pm) and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! Will definitely come again!!!

Checked out the Eat 'Real Fest this weekend. (A bay area event that decided to come to LA!!) Went…read moreon Sat during the first day of the dreaded and blown-out-of-proportion 405 fwy closure! Even w/ the closure there was NO TRAFFIC at all plus there was PLENTY of parking for the event. The event itself was held at the Helms Bakery building (which is now a bunch of stores). NO FOOD/DRINKS were over $5 There were over a dozen food trucks plus many food vendor booths! There were 2 beer gardens in the area. You could purchase a glass mug for $7- and refill for $5- (which I did). They had some great beers on tap.... Orange Wheat , Arrogant Bastard..... (You could only drink alcohol in the designated area so it was better to get food and bring it to the area so you can enjoy your beer too!) Beer Brewers represented: (http://eatrealfest.com/event/Los%20Angeles/California/2011/drink-beer) Ballast Point Brewing Hangar 24 Craft Brewery The Lost Abbey Craftsman Brewing Company Port Brewing Company Eagle Rock Brewery Stone Brewing Co. Firestone Walker Brewing Company The Bruery Wines: MAS Wine Company Palmina SilverTap Wines Inside one of the buildings they had local places that were selling local favorites like Jam/Jellies ...Chocolate.......etc (http://eatrealfest.com/event/Los%20Angeles/California/2011/eat-market) They had a stage where they showed different demonstrations...plus a butcher contest ..music.....etc It was a great day and I had a great time. Lots of people showed up...lots of families...w/ babies...and dogs. They even had a vendor there that was selling backyard set-up chicken coops so that people could raise their own chickens and have fresh eggs.(interesting!) The vendors I tried were: Bigmista BBQ (bigmista.com)- their pork sliders were great (they ran out of their chicken wings) Waffles De Liege (waffledeliege.com) - just waffles ..meh Corn Maiden Foods (cornmaidenfoods.com) - AWESOME TAMALES I would have tried more but the lines were very slow and the portions were very small (guess thats what you get for $5- ) Other vendors/food trucks: (http://eatrealfest.com/event/Los%20Angeles/California/2011/eat-vendors) A Rockin Ice Crepe 'n Around Go Country Chuck Wagon Nom Nom Truck Temaki Truck Anca's Romanian Bowers Gourmet Sausages Drip Bar Komodo Old Vine Cafe The Hungry Nomad Beach Cream CoolHaus Flatiron Truck Let's Be Frank Rokyo Vizzitruck Belcampo Meat. Co. Flying Pig Me So Hungry Truck Sno-Con Amor My only one complaint is that by 4 pm..( the festival was open until 9pm) a lot of places were sold out of food. If I didn't get there early I would have been upset. If the festival hours are from 1030am to 9pm...then you would think that all the vendors would be stocked up and have enough food to make until 9pm !! Even the beer garden ran out of their jars by 4pm which forced people to by the small $5- cups (which wasn't worth it). One of the best things about the event is that it is 100% environment friendly!! They had waste / compost / recycling bins EVERYWHERE..and they had an attendant standing by each area to show people exactly which bin to put the trash. OVERALL .it was a...great day with great friends/family and great food!!

Fabulous restaurants, fabulous Chefs, and amazing food.. well done Mr. Gold!…read more All that said, there is definitely some room for improvement as it was a warm day and it was near unbearable inside the tent. I don't think they took into account having all the burners running at once inside the tent. We had VIP tickets and it was bearable until the general admission folks were let in then it was dripping sweaty hot. Luckily for us, we had already pretty much sampled everything we wanted to try so we mostly stayed in the outdoor areas to keep cool. I'd definitely go back but VIP is the way to go... we were able to sample everything we wanted to try before the G.A. folks came in and really enjoyed ourselves.

Last Sunday, I attended Jonathan Gold's 3rd annual food & wine festival sponsored by the LA Weekly…read moremagazine and hosted in Los Angeles' Petersen Automotive Museum. Located across the street from the LA county museum of art, I thought it was a great choice of venue to host the event, especially given my love of fast cars old and new. It gave me something to do while my sister was waiting in line to enter the festival: The main event was located on their rooftop area, winery & beer booths centrally positioned with the restaurants set up along the outer rows By the time we entered at 1pm for general admission, the crowds of ravenous foodies were in full force. Unfortunately a few booths ran out of food early, namely Mozza and Ludobites, but with all the other countless participants cooking away, I didn't dwell much on what I missed. The selection of restaurants reflected Mr Gold's already broad food tastes from the finer establishments like the 2 Michelin star Providence, to local mom & pop BBQ and hot dog places... and everything in between. Not all participating restaurants advertised were able to appear at the event and some new ones took their place, but overall I felt it was well organized and run smoothly. Despite having to constantly make my way through the endless sea of fellow food lovers to get to various booths, the attendees were a mostly civilized, polite bunch and there was never any unpleasantness as we were all there to share a common passion. Also the various chefs and cooks in attendance, despite working furious to keep the hungry masses satisfied, never seemed to let the crowds and stress bring them down, always putting on a smiling, friendly face. A big thumbs up for the Gold Standard and for the most part, I think it succeeded in living up to its name.

Best time ever food was great environment was amazing. That day was magic a meet 3 of my favorites…read moreactors

I am currently burping up some awesome, garlicky, fish saucy breath courtesy of this awesome…read moreevent!! As a guest of the Thai consulate, I was lucky enough to get complimentary tickets to this event's first year (otherwise the tickets would have been $50-$75). That said, it was a packed but well - organized event with all the major Thai restaurants present (Ayara, Jitlada, Lum Ka Naad, etc) along with some celebrity chefs bringing a little modern fusion action into the mix (Sang Yoon, Susan Feniger, Jet, etc.). It was booth after booth of fantastic Thai cusine repping all the regional cusines. I stuffed myself with everything (highlights were an amazing pulled pork dish from Siam Sunset, a delicious green crab curry from David Lefevre's MB Post, a "modern" and refreshing beef salad from Lukson's Sang Yoon and a delicious veg option from Pok Pok). Along with the abundance of food there was a muay thai demonstration, fruit carvings, umbrella paintings and plenty of coconut juice/waters going around to replenish you in the heat. All of that and I got to meet Curtis Stone who is sooo much taller than I imagined. So to recap: great food+amazingly talented chefs+great entertainment + curtis stone = 5+++ stars of good times. Heck, curtis stone = 5+++ stars himself ;)! (extra props for this being the first year of this event and it still being so great - yes it was packed but parking and getting food was totally easy)

This was the sweetest Farmer's Market! There were so many yummy options to choose from. I loved the…read morepickle bar and the bakeries. It is definitely a fun place to visit with friends!

This is by far my favorite festival. The Taste Of Farmer Market happens every year in July…read more The majority of the vendors, as well as new businesses, jump into the action of this glorious event. Over 50 vendors offer samples of "the best of" are given out to hungry patrons. Come hungry!! Anywhere from Prime Rib sliders from Harris Ranch at Huntington Meats to pastrami sandwiches from Phil's and homemade ice cream from Bennett's are just a few of the scrumptious offerings available. The price runs around $35-$40 and the ticket price is well worth it. Parking for the event and for the rest of the evening is even included. What a deal!!! If you're a foodie like me and loves to taste all different varieties of yummy morsels, be sure to catch this event every July.

The festival happens yearly during grandpup's birthday weekend. We attended last year for the…read morefirst time. This year the highlight was an event to set a new Guinness World record. Doc had planned early so three of our names were listed on an event T-shirt. They said one of a kind as each t shirt was numbered. $35 per person to participate which got you a bowl of freshly made pad Thai during the event and a t shirt. By the time we retired for the day Doc shared with us that the Guinness World Record was indeed surpassed and history was made. The parade was going on behind us. Some tall tables with a few umbrellas were set up. We came early so we were able to get a table front and center to view the biggest wok. Sadly the crowd formed in front of us and completely blocked our view. The chicken pad Thai ran out so the three of us got shrimp pad Thai. Sweet with a subtle twang but so yummy, warm and comforting. Thanks Doc.

We are so excited to have this event back on the streets of Thai Town again. The food, the…read morecelebrations, the entertainment, and most of all the connection to Thai culture make this an event to put on your calendar. A parade on Hollywood Blvd. Muy Thai demonstrations. A beauty contest. Staged dancing and music. Arts and crafts and food vendors galore! The monks will be honored. Everywhere that you look will be the wonderful Thai smiles that they are so famous for! April 27, 2025 8:00 am to 10:00 pm and admission is free!