Tue 19 Jan 2010 9:21 pm
The Seattle Food & Wine Experience is coming up Feb. 28 at Seattle Center, and the organizers are giving away a pair of tickets to our readers.
What can you expect?
For the wine part of the experience, the posted list of participants includes DeLille Cellars, Erath, McCrea, and 100+ more, with breweries to boot. Around 20 eateries are signed up, from Maximus/Minimus (out of hibernation for the day) and Frost Doughnuts to Artisanal and Campagne and — yes, seriously, check out what these folks have been doing – the Tulalip Casino’s restaurant, Tulalip Bay. Kathy Casey will give a signed cookbook to the first 300 guests.
Tickets are $49 apiece (with a portion going to the non-profit Beecher’s Flagship Foundation), which gets you unlimited samples of food and non-alcoholic beverages, and 50 tasting tickets for alcoholic drinks (at 1-3 tickets per taste). Interested in a chance to get in for free? Just leave a comment here telling me what you like (or, if you prefer, what you don’t like) to see at food festivals. We’ll pick the winner using a random number generator at 9 p.m. PST on Feb. 2.
Updated 2/2 to announce that our random number generator has picked comment #19, Dave, as our winner! Congratulations!
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The most important ingredient at food festival is that lines are kept in order (so i can go back for seconds. and thirds. and so on.)
It is about flow, keep the lines moving and the food churnin. I think that people share more if they taste and have a hunger for more, if you keep food in peoples hands and move us around it makes for a lot of information getting out to all the wonderful foodies that are out there.
Delicious food with reasonable lines!
Ok. First, I want to see french fries (my absolute favorite food). But second, there needs to be crowd control - not too many people per food vendor and not too many foodies for the space available.
No lines (yeah, like that’s going to happen!)
I hope Poppy (the restaurant) will participate and bring their wonderful eggplant fries.
For me it is all about deep, bold flavors.
Cheese and more cheese
I’d like to see a few tables so that it’s easy to eat and drink at the same time. Or maybe a plate that has one of those drink thingies attached! And oh yes, Poppy’s eggplant fries and maybe a few nutter butter squares from Dana Cree.
I love to see local foods used in interesting ways. I like seasonal foods too…but it is the winter.
I wish I had an original comment, but I have to agree with everyone else who mentioned crowd control and negotiable lines. So often I’ve been to food events like this and immediately left as the crowds have been so massive and disorganized.
Hmmm, not an original answer, but I also like to see short lines and highboys to set your food on!
Diversity of local food and wine vendors is key in a space that accommodates the size of the crowd.
Taking a step back from crowd control, I like to see an atmosphere that allows people to really enjoy and experience the food and drinks. Some degree of ambience is key.
I’m a sucker for pasta!
Love to see unique eateries and offerings - not the mainstream “food festival” types. I want to try something new!
More wine!
easy access to delicious and diverse food!
Ditto the comment about enough tables so that we can set down our plate and drink. I hate trying to eat off a plate while standing up.
food on a stick! oh, and fast-moving lines. not just fried food…ethnic grub!
Vin, vino, vinho and my favorite toast: “Here’s to the roses and lilies in bloom you in my arms and I in your room. A door that is locked a key that is lost a bird and a bottle and a bed badly tossed and a night that is 50 years long.”
I like festivals that position like type foods together and limit entry so that those in attendance can navigate easily.
short lines, efficient crowd control, good food of course
I would love to see more local, gourmet and speciality foods; The best-of-the best from the farmers markets. In addition, with gluten-free and vegan speciality foods on the rise, I would love to see what Seattle has to offer in that category as well.
Lines? If it’s good, there’s going to be a line…. Come on!
I look for experiences I haven’t had before; trying a new restaurant, food, wine…..
It’s so Seattle, but still: I love to see composting and recycling next to the garbage cans.
I love all the Northwest cuisine - some of the best chowder I have ever had is at food festivals in the Northwest - yum!
I look for lots of food diversity.
I’ve only been to one wine-tasting event, at the convention center in Wash, DC. The thing that made it work was the large space so people weren’t cramped. There were endless booths with food and wine and a lot of happy winery employees wanting to share their knowledge with the crowd. One vineyard in particular was our favorite, not only b/c of their wine, but because the guy pouring didn’t skimp on the good stuff. :o)
I love seeing all the new kinds of foods available and at a wine show, all the cool new wines I’ve never heard of or tried. I like trying them.
I’ve never had the opportunity to attend a food festival, but I’d love to see what they’re like!
I think the crowd control is so important. There is nothing worse than the a closed space with too many people.
I love seeing the food trends emerge- as well as seeing the folks usually in the kitchen out and about with each other.
I’d like to see some organization to the food booths so the order you’re eating (and drinking) things makes sense.
I love to see small children tasting and enjoying non-children things: olives, foie gras, beets, and the like. Yay!
Vendors that are enthusiastic about their products and easy information about where to get them in the “regular” world.
Not too keen on them, myself. I’d go to it, though if I got free tickets.
Actually being able to get to the tables to try things!
Yes, definitely good line control and flow. Have you ever noticed how people at these events will queue up and one person will say to another, “What’s this line for?” And the other person will say, “I don’t know, but it looks good.”
delicious food and drink.. and one of my favorite additions, live music!
I live places that go big with creative adventurous things that likely won’t appeal to everyone, but takes a risk with a new original idea.
(but the short lines comments from everyone are pretty good too…)
I do not like to see inflated prices for food at these types of festivals. I like flat entry fees. It makes the most sense, really! The Seattle Food & Wine Festival is doing it right. I also like that they are adding 50 alcoholic drink tickets with the cost of entry.
I like to see a decent ratio of food to wine vendors. At the Portland Food & Wine Festival last fall, there were significantly more wine vendors than food vendors, and the food folks were occasionally overwhelmed–it takes more time to prepare a new batch of tiny bites than it does to pour another taste of wine!
I wish that food sampling events more clearly labeled what types of food were being served up. People with food allergies, vegetarians, or those who don’t eat port. . . we all get tired of constantly asking, and I’m sure the people behind the food get tired of always being asked.
It is really nice, though, to have such a great opportunity to sample food and wine — wonderful festival!
I like to see old friends. And eat good food.
Plenty of tall tables and not to long of lines are always a plus.
I like to experience new & different taste combinations, food that works in the festival environment, some accommodation for allergies and food-based chronic illness >> i.e., dessert offerings that are NOT 96% sugar, dairy-free options for comfort foods, local and organic ingredients, etc.
What do I like to see at Food Festivals?
Me!
I would like to see more vegetarian and non-seafood options. Events here in the NW seem to be very seafood-heavy (for obvious reasons) but for those that are allergic or just don’t like fish, it tends to limit your options.
I prefer that it’s clear the origin and province of foods being served or prepared.