Taste of Tacoma : New Growth Event Solutions

The Taste of Tacoma is our second-largest event and celebrates 25 years in 2010. The Taste is produced in Tacoma’s beautiful Point Defiance Park and is an event literally built from the ground up. While Point Defiance Park spans over 700 acres, the Taste takes place within 250 acres of bare, rolling grass in the middle of the park and outward parking areas. The event poses a special challenge as there are no pre-existing structures to house different events and attractions of the festival, and we bring everything in with us, from booths to electricity to music stages.

The Taste of Tacoma hosts over 250,000 visitors over three days on the last weekend of June each year. The event combines all elements of a family picnic in the park and presents them in a larger scale that thousands can enjoy at once. The Taste features almost 30 restaurants, 20 food product companies, over 100 arts and crafts vendors, five entertainment stages and a wine tasting. The Taste of Tacoma has earned the reputation of the Ultimate Family Picnic, and we’re expanding and adding new attractions every year!

The Taste of Tacoma is truly a turn-key event for participants of all categories, as we are committed to complete planning, construction and execution of all aspects of the event. We contract all food vendors and sponsors for the event and have a partnership with the Metropolitan Park District for other aspects of the festival, such as the arts and crafts fair. We also work with various charities during the event to raise awareness and funds for various causes.

We handle all aspects pre-event production from marketing outreach to contract writing and fulfillment for sponsors to application creation and menu consulting for food vendors. The official event program is written by us and is distributed in the city’s largest newspaper the week of the event. On site, we handle every part of the festival: not only the large aspects like overall event supervision, media inquiries and public interaction, but also less-known elements of a successful festival such as parking lots, health department questions, grounds maintenance etc.

The Taste of Tacoma is a successful event because of our team’s hard work and creativity, and we look forward turning our vision toward your project!