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Explore Dallas’ culinary terrain at Fair Park, where the Taste of Dallas festival begins Friday. Take your appetite and your curiosity because you’ll have chances to sample a variety of treats from more than 50 area restaurants and watch more than a dozen chefs and one mixologist share recipes and tips during demonstrations, which will include complimentary samplings. Check out the website to see which demos you want to watch. Who knows? You might find ideas for a summer backyard bash. Before you go, you might also want to take a look at the website to see which eats you want to try, and then pace yourself to make the most of the fest. Don’t forget to stay hydrated. The festivities will include live music; a marketplace stocking spices, cutlery, cookware, olive oils, sauces, jams and more; children’s activities; the Artist Enclave, which showcases the local art scene; and, new this year, the Taste of Talent competition, featuring area singers, dancers and other performers.
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Friday from 4 to 11 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. along the Esplanade and inside the Automobile Building and Centennial Hall in Fair Park, Dallas (check the website for more location info). Tickets at the gate are $8; free admission for children under 12 and for people born in 1986 (with photo ID). Discount tickets are $5 and are available at Albertson’s stores in the Dallas area through the weekend. Free admission on Friday for current and former military personnel (show ID at the gate) and one guest. Food samples top out at about $3 each. Parking is $12, or take DART’s Green Line to get to the festival entrance. Sorry, no pets, coolers, picnic baskets or other items (see website for more information). www.tasteofdallas.org.
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Dont know what all the complaints are about. We thought it was a great value. To the person complaining about the half a hot dog for $1, Oscar Meyer Mobile was giving them away for free! We came home with a sack full of free goodies. And the $1-$3 tastings were perfect. At taste of addison there tastings start at $5-$10. Thank you Taste of Dallas, can't wait for next year!
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Taste of Dallas will NEVER get a dime of my money! On one of the hottest weekends of the year, and Taste of Dallas decides to have all of the water fountains shut off inside the fairgrounds, doesn't allow anyone to bring in their own water, and forces folks to pay $3 a bottle for water! If this were any other monopoly, people would be demanding answers. Well.....I'm demanding answers. This was a horrible thing to do to the citizens of Dallas.
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I went to my first (and last) Taste of Dallas this weekend and I must express my disappointment. The promoters talked about nothing over $3. And they were right. For $3 I could get a half of corn dog. Or a mini bbq sandwich (slider). What's up with that? Except for the Albertsons booth where one could get a "whole" hot dog for $1, I thought the whole gig was a rip off. Dallas can learn so much from the Taste of Arlington or even the Taste of Grand Prairie. They know how to put on a "Taste of".