The 2020 Wesley Chapel Taco Festival is at the Grove at Wesley Chapel on Saturday & Sunday,…read moreSeptember 19-20. It is set up on the grounds in front of the Cobb Theatre & Cinebistro. I'll start from the beginning to the end of our experience. Ticketing was easy. You can buy tickets on line or at the entrance tent. We got ours online. The tickets are $10 for an individual or $35 for a family of 4. Parking is free or for $5 you can have the VIP Parking near the front gate of the event. We paid for the parking when we ordered the tickets because if there is a VIP parking, you'd expect a significantly longer walk then regular parking but that wasn't the case. Do yourself a favor and save yourself $5. With general admission, your 1st drink is free (a margarita shot). Ummm...It wasn't really a full shot. It was a swallow soooo....but there is a bar to buy alcoholic drinks that are around $10, water was $1, and sodas were $2. As you walk up to the two lines to enter (pre-paid line and pay at the gate line), we noticed that there were no social distancing markers on the ground or signs reminding people to do so. Masks are not required either so be prepared for that. People pretty much kept their distance so social conditioning works at times. The prepaid line took longer for people to get through then the pay at the gate line. There was only 1 guy working the prepaid line and 2 (sometimes 3) people working the other line so that was a bit annoying. So what's the point of prepaying? Once inside, they had a lot of great food vendors and some fun activities for all age groups. Tacos were about $4 but there were a few places like La Pirata that offered tacos 2 for $5. Their caribbean and spicy jerk tacos were so good! I also ordered their smoked flan with blueberry sauce...MMMM. There were some really fun activities including mechanical bull riding, axe throwing with Molly Hatchets, and a Kids Zone w/ bounce houses and carnival games. They really weren't sanitizing the bounce houses so the little one in our party didn't get in it but I love the fact that every child that played the carnival game received a prize. There was this tiny little girl, around 2, playing and she won a prize. Too cute! MOST food items and ALL activities work on a ticket system and I saw one ticket station which is the one we went to buy our tickets. I used my credit card though with the food and product vendors that I bought things from. We enjoyed watching the hot pepper eating contest, listening to the live country music of Angie Rey and her band, all while sitting under a covered tent eating our grub. All and all it was a fun day. As far as festivals go, this can be an expensive day for families with children. With $10 pp for people 3 years and older, I'm not sure I would bring the whole family. If you have a family of 4 then you're paying $40 at the gate before food and activities. There should be a reduced price for children 12 and under because parents will be paying for the kids to do activities and eat goodies. If you're ballin", bring the whole family if not, you might want to wait for a festival with a more affordable entrance fee.

Another excellent time at the fair grounds! This time for the Dream Asia Fest. This festival was…read moreabsolutely amazing! Hope they come back annually. Buying tickets was easy. Bought parking through the fairgrounds website. Getting into parking was easy and I was navigated to my gate entrance to enter. They had so many food, drink, and shopping vendors. Live music and entertainment from both the crowd and the people running the stage. Great time and a lot of fun!

I'm definitely bias since I've only gone to the Minnesota State Fair which is the #1state fair…read moreturnout in the country every year for the 12 days that it's open. Parking was $15 on-site & fair entrance was free for me with my FL medical professional license ID card since I went on a promo day for it. The best part of the Fl State Fair was the petting zoo of baby goats, donkeys, llama alpacas which was free to enter & pet at your own risk of poop & pee from the animals. Some of the alpacas were very agreeable to selfies lol so funny they knew the assignment well. 5 stars for the animals & zero stars everything else. All the food was terrible. I definitely wouldn't go back again. Even if the entrance fee or parking was free... not worth it. My friends that were born & raised in the Tampa Bay Area told me not to go that it's not worth it... should a listened to them lol. None of my Florida friends wanted to go that have lived in Tampa their whole life. I went for the experience. I didn't go on any rides, my germ radar was on too high alert lol.

Came here for the first time for the 8th annual festival, it was so much fun. Festival was from…read more10am - 3pm and we got there a little before 10am and there were already a good number of people there. Once 10am hit, it seemed like the moms and the kids all hit the single sound hay bale and started stuffing their clothes they brought with hay to make their scarecrows. They were running low on clothes this year so you could either buy a top and pants for $4 or you could just bring our own. The hay, twine, and paper bag for te head were free. Fun for the whole family. They also had a couple vendors, pony rides, food stalls (hot dogs, lemonade, kettle corn), kids slide, and 2 jumpy houses for the kids. At the end of it all, you get to take home your scarecrow, just in time to display outside for the Fall season and Halloween.

Kumquat fest was later this year - Sunday, March 8th, 2026. It's usually the last week of January…read morebut they changed the date this year due to the cold windy weather. We decided to go since it was a Sunday. We can tell there were less vendors bc maybe bc of the new date. Not sure. It is a lot of arts and crafts vendors all throughout the town. This is really cool bc there's lots to see. Also it brings business to the businesses here. Many businesses have changed and closed. I haven't been in a while so this is a nice way to see what businesses have come and go by walking all throughout the town. I definitely want to come back. Parking is not bad bc it's also throughout the neighborhoods. You really don't need to pay for parking. You do have to walk so if walking shoes are better, then wear them

Such a fun festival! First time going…read more Lots of vendors, food, drinks, kumquat themed items, and music. We got kumquat margaritas! So good. Love that you can walk around with alcohol.

The art fest is in full swing. It happen in the January. It occupied the entire Paseo Drive. The…read moreorganizers is very organized that the storefront walkway for the entrance is not block and make this art fest spread out. During the art fest, there are several chalk artists put their work in front of the walkway of Dilard's. They will be completed at the second day of the art fest. If you like to try your artistic skills, there is a section on the driveway allow to put your amateur skill to work at kid corner. The booths of the artists were occupied along the street. It is not too crowded. I like the display of each artist. If you get tired of the the art, you always can jump into shopping next or enjoy the restaurant in the mall. Very convenient. There is also a music band playing live music. We are very fortunately this two days do not rain.

The weather was really nice to walk outdoors. Many artists local and afar set up their tents here…read moreand sell their work, That including jewelry, painting, woodwork, photo, handbag, wearable, chairs, sculpture, etc. Live band was playing on the central stage. Couple chalk artists worked their drawing on the ground in front of JC penny. They still have one more day to finish the pieces. Overall, this was a family/ pet friendly festival. It wouldn't be difficult for anyone to find that unique piece of art to decorate the house or yourself.

Brooksville Main Street has breathed life back into the sleepy little town of brooksville. This…read morecommunity revitalization effort has been a huge success in bringing new people to the area and the people native to town together. They have regular community events, monthly free concerts, Friday Night Live, art festivals, And recently started doing a vlog on Facebook. Tina and Ryan are the faces of Brooksville Main Street and their passion is reflected in everything they've been doing, if you have a chance to come to the little civil war town of brooksville make sure you check out what's going on with Brooksville Main Street you won't be disappointed!

I thought it would be fun to go see this fall festival and hang out with friends…read more I was hoping that it would have s lot of food trucks and food options and not mainly art. The river and the park around is a lovely area to walk around on any given day. Today was pretty warm and humid so it was kind of hard to stay out for too long, oh well it's Tampa after all. There was a nice selection of art and different vendors, much like other weekends markets in the Bay Area. For food, though I think it was lacking options. there was donuts booth, coffee truck, hotdogs, kale/ green juice and not much more to choose from. I hope that in the future they will offer more healthy foods and just more options for people to eat and want to hang around.

3 stars may be generous depending on what street you walked on.It didn't have much in the line of…read moreblueberries certainly not fresh lovely plump blueberries. very hillbilly. Same old food trucks at every festival. The worst blueberry lemonade. I've ever had in my life I had to throw it away. It was so freaking sweet. The fight between vendors/restaurant owners and putting up barricades was ridiculous. Nothing special here at all as a matter of fact it was grimy and kind of scary.

Much better than these old reviews suggest. Yeah parking sucks and you pay to get in, but…read moreotherwise it's a good time. Lots of vendors, plenty of restrooms, blueberries galore. Cash is helpful but not required, as most of the vendors have swipers on their iPhone nowadays. Beer trucks were easy to get to, and lots of wine venues too if you wanted to switch it up. Plus, there was one if those Urban Slide waterslides that go on for like 500 feet. Fun times. Also I ate a slice of pizza with scorpions as the topping. Not great, but makes a good snapchat pic. Had a poor experience with one vendor (Bacon Jams, give me a damn jar that is sealed!), but otherwise a fun experience in otherwise staid Brooksville.