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Taste of Cincinnati’s Taste of Findlay Market announces 21 vendors for culinary arts festival


Cincinnati’s Findlay Market, Ohio’s oldest surviving municipal market house, will have a new home away from home inside Taste of Cincinnati, May 27-29, noon-9 p.m., on the Fifth Street ramp to I-71.

Taste of Findlay Market will exclusively feature food vendors from Findlay Market and “foodpreneurs” from Findlay Kitchen, serving fresh-prepared bites, throughout the weekend.

“With Taste of Findlay Market, Taste of Cincinnati, will feature over 70 restaurants, food trucks and entrepreneurs serving more than 300 menu items,” said Cynthia Oxley, director of Taste of Cincinnati. “Fifty-six percent of Taste of Cincinnati vendors will be minority-, woman- or immigrant owned.”

The 21 Findlay vendors scheduled to participate at Taste of Cincinnati:

  • The Arepa Place
  • Babushka Pierogies
  • Bailey Family Catering
  • Banasun Fruit Bar
  • Bouchard’s
  • The Brü Brothers
  • Davis Cookie Collection
  • Dean’s Mediterranean Imports
  • Fireside Pizza
  • Flavor Punch Food Truck
  • Gramma Debbie’s Kitchen
  • Grind on the Rhine
  • Injoy Indian Street Food
  • Kuya Ed’s Lechon Aptba
  • Mae
  • Maverick Chocolate Company
  • OCD Cakes
  • Queen City Hemp
  • Saigon Market
  • Schell’s Bistro
  • Tweedles Mini Donuts

“Findlay Market and Findlay Kitchen are excited to partner with the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and Taste of Cincinnati, to provide a great opportunity for our Findlay Foodpreneurs, as well as a new experience for event attendees,” said Marianne Hamilton, director of Food Innovation for Findlay Market. “Taste of Findlay Market will be a unique way to represent the growing startup and independent food scene in our city, as well as a delicious way for attendees to ‘taste’ their way through this area!”

Since 2013, the Cincinnati Chamber has donated $65,000 to support regional culinary and entrepreneurial growth. The Chamber will continue its support of local culinary entrepreneurs with a 2017 donation to the Findlay Market Foodpreneur Fund.

Taste of Cincinnati, the nation’s longest running culinary arts festival will take place on Fifth Street in downtown Cincinnati, from Main to Sentinel Street and beyond to the ramps of I-71 and Columbia Parkway. The event will open at 11 a.m., all three days.

Taste of Cincinnati presented by Budweiser and produced by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, enjoyed a record-tying crowd of more than 550,000 in 2016.

Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber


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