Summer ’16 Food And Drink Festivals In The Central Texas Area Guide

Festival Week, Culinaria’s popular gustatory get-together, features multiple events over the course of four days! From food trucks to haute cuisine, beer to champagne, Festival Week truly offers something for everyone! The 2016 lineup is shaking out to be the best yet!

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Festivities include the 'BBQ Capital of Texas' Championship & Chili Cook-Off along with a horseshoe & softball tournament.

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The Houston Fajita Festival 2016 is a celebration of Mexican culture, food, drinks, and entertainment. Come hungry with family and friends to enjoy a day filled with a variety of delicious fajita choices! Texas cookers and grill masters will have everything from beef to seafood. Plus enjoy live art at the "Mural wall", play with the kids in the "Playground" or relax with the cooling misters in the "Chill Zone". There will be live entertainment for all to enjoy including midget wrestling, local bands, Dj's, Baile folklorico, live artist painting, costume characters, interactive games for prizes and delicious carnival treats including Grandmas Boys Lemonade. There will be a beer and spirit garden offering a broad range of handcrafted cocktails from spiked lemonade to Micheladas with a twist.

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For the tens of thousands of people set to visit Taste of Dallas this year, there is something for everyone across 13 different areas inside the event. Restaurants from across the region offer up tastes of their best dishes. Artists will show off their inspired works. Street artists will create masterpieces right before your eyes. Kids will enjoy plenty to keep them busy and engaged in a 12,000 sq ft indoor FREE kids zone. Music and entertainment will pour out from multiple stages, filling the event with fun and festivity.

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Drawing culinary masters and wine experts from around the world, the 12th Annual Wine & Food Week uncorks June 6-12, 2016 with scores of events featuring more than 500 wines, 50 restaurants, and legendary wine producers and culinary personalities. From wine expert to wine novice, there's a wine waiting for you to discover at Wine & Food Week!

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The Texas Blueberry Festival is a delightful day of the America you dreamed still existed. This is the most delicious festival in the Lone Star State— a day-long celebration of the annual blueberry harvest. As the only state-sanctioned blueberry festival in Texas, this delicious annual event attracts more than 19,000 people to downtown Nacogdoches. It offers a smorgasbord of activities to keep folks entertained all day long.

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There will be a Tomato Eating Contest, Tomato Peeling Contest (peel tomato with your teeth), Salsa Contest, Best Home Grown Tomato Contest, Tomato Shoot (kiddos learn safety of shooting a BB Gun and shooting tomatoes), Top Tomato Poster Contest (children 1-3 grade draw their top tomato), Health Screening,Live Entertainment and Farmer’s Market. The farmers sale thousands of tomatoes that day. We have over 200 vendors, Got Talent Contest, Kids Zone, Antique Car Show, Motorcycle Show and fried green tomatoes! Chili’s Street Dance begins at 7:00 pm (this is the only Chili’s that provides a Street dance).

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This is the 42nd year Holland, Texas has celebrated the local cash crop. Events include a Parade, 5k run, Contests, Concert/Dance, Barbecue Cook-Off, Arts & Crafts, Carnival and much more.

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Hispanic Chamber presents the II Battle of the Food Trucks! The biggest community event ever held in Killeen returns, the II Battle of the Food Trucks will be held June 18th at the Killeen Community Center. Vendors, live music, entertainment and your chance to taste and vote for the best food truck of 2016. This event is free for the whole family. Food trucks and vendors please fill out the registration form to be part of this amazing event.

Watermelon Jubilee Concerts, A Rodeo, A Parade, A Watermelon Crawl 5K Run including Kids Crawl, A Largest Watermelon Contest, Jubilee Dog Show & Races, Food Vendors
And More!

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Discover Wine Festival brings some of the best wineries in Texas together for one day of great wines and music. By partnering with Springboard South we are able to create a truly unique and fun event with entertainment that will not be available at any other wine festival.

Experience liquor in a new way and come get Ice Cream Wasted and everything else wasted! Live music, drinking games, boozey bites and more.

Live Music, Culinary Chefs, Food, Artist, Breweries, Homebrew Demo's, Texas Wineries, Wine 101 Class & much more!

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