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Santa Ana Food Festival Serves Best In Local Flavors
Mole Tots, Elote Mac & Cheese, Luau Punch: Savor Santa Ana
October 8 2019
Mole Tots, Elote Mac & Cheese, Luau Punch: Savor Santa Ana serves up unique local flavor
Saturday, October 12th, 5:30-9:30 PM in Downtown Santa Ana.
Tickets, just $10, at savorsantaana.com
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Santa Ana, CA - Orange County’s premier food festival, Savor Santa Ana, returns Saturday, October 12th with one-of-a-kind tastes created by downtown Santa Ana's local small businesses and first- and second-generation business owners.
Savor Santa Ana
Saturday, October 12th
5:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Downtown Santa Ana
Tickets: $10 for 5 tasting tickets. Buy at savorsantaana.com or cash-only at the festival
Savor Santa Ana features tastes from local restaurants and bars throughout downtown Santa Ana. The theme will be "Fall Food Carnival," featuring fire dancers, mystique, and fall food flavors. Live musicians and local youth performance groups will perform in pop-up shows along the sidewalks, and a trolley will provide free rides around downtown.
This marks the seventh Savor Santa Ana festival for downtown Santa Ana, serving thousands of visitors since 2014. Organizers expect to sell the 150,000th tasting ticket this October, a milestone reminiscent of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the City of Santa Ana this year.
“Savor Santa Ana is about experiencing food all over downtown,” said Ryan Smolar, event organizer and Lead Consultant to Downtown, Inc., a nonprofit association representing more than 600 downtown Santa Ana restaurants, offices, and retailers. “Whether you know downtown a little or a lot, this is a chance to explore, eat, and have fun with friends and family.”
Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA) is emerging as Orange County’s “favorite food district” with two food halls and dozens of food cuisines including northern and central Latin American dishes, millennial-generation experimental foods, modern Filipino, wine bars and bistros, and central and southeast Asian traditional and fusion fares.
PREVIOUS YEAR HIGHLIGHTS:
★ Alta Baja Market: Adovada Tacos, Frito Pies, Mera Mera Micheladas ★ Blackmarket
Bakery: Pumpkin Pie Tarts, Banana Split S’mores, Lemon-Lime Tarts ★ Chunk N Chip: Chipotle Peach Ice Cream Sandwich with Honey Biscuit Cookies ★ Dos Chinos: Curry Tacos ★ Irenia Restaurant: Mani (Filipino Peanut Snack) ★ Good Beer Company: OC Craft Beer ★ Copper Door: XOXO Ice Cream Float Cocktail
2019 EVENT FEATURES
-- Restaurant Tastings and East End Incubator Kitchen Tastings
-- Fall Food Carnival with fire dancers
-- Free Trolley Rides
-- Live Music and Youth Group Performances
-- Cool craft beer and cocktails for the adults!
-- New Restaurants like El Indio Botanas y Cervezas, Next Round DTSA and classics like Chapter One: The Modern Local and The Good Beer Co.
2019 TICKETS
Get 5 tasting tickets for $10, and use your senses (or our handy map!) to guide yourself around downtown Santa Ana. Buy tickets online in advance at SavorSantaAna.com.
Tickets will also be available for purchase during Savor Santa Ana at two locations: East End: 4th and Spurgeon, and West End: 4th and Broadway. Ticket booths will open at 5 pm and will be CASH ONLY. For questions, please email info@downtown-inc.com
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This press release was produced by Savor Santa Ana. The views expressed here are the author’s own.