The Taste of Annandale is back for 2022
After a two-year break, the Taste of Annandale is back for 2022.
The family-friendly community festival is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., along Tom Davis Drive in the center of Annandale.
Plans call for food trucks, restaurants, a 5K race, a full line-up of live music and dance, a full schedule of children’s entertainment and activities, a beer garden, the police helicopter, chili cook-off, best-dressed pet contest, and dozens of vendors. There is no charge to attend.
The Taste of Annandale is organized by the Annandale-Mason Roundtable, a nonprofit formed by volunteers. The festival was developed with two major goals in mind: to bring the community together to celebrate Annandale and to shine a spotlight on local businesses and restaurants.
Sponsorship and vendor forms will be available soon. Meanwhile, anyone interested in being a sponsor of the 2022 Taste of Annandale should contact [email protected].
The festival has grown every year since the first one in 2015. We had to cancel plans for the Taste in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. The 2022 event promises to be the biggest and best Taste ever.
14 responses to “The Taste of Annandale is back for 2022”
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While I think the Taste of Annandale is a great idea, I think it’s better to call it something else because it is a bit misleading. The vendors/food places are not from Annandale. I’m guessing the Annandales restaurants didn’t want to participate for whatever reason, but all the “tastes” are food trucks/restaurants not based in Annandale for the most part. I think a better name would be “Annandale fall festival” or anything else, but it can’t be “Taste of Annandale” unless the tastes come from Annandale-based businesses.
In that case, Taste of Annandale would just be Korean food and Burger King.
Clearly you don’t patron Duck Chang’s, Silverado, Beanetics, Pupusas Express, Tanpopo Ramen, A&J, Food Corner, Chicken Pollo or Pho Hai Duong (just to name a few).
I’m like the food options in Annandale and sure they probably could be more variety. I’ll patiently wait for you to open your food establishment.
Agreed Jose, plenty of great places of many different backgrounds. None of these are chains either, just people who love to troll… Let’s not forget Taco Bamba that recently opened in the owner’s hometown area!
Shiney’s, Thai Food, Khan Japanese, Dama.
Those are all chains or asian food, except Beanetics, which is nasty imho. I think you just proved Liam’s point.
How many wrong/ignorant things can be fit into one sentence.
They are not all Asian, or chains and no, “Asian” doesn’t mean they are all the same. “Asian” comprises very diverse people, cultures and cuisines.
People will tear anything down just for the sake of the tearing. I prefer to find ways to encourage even more restaurants to participate. If I am not willing to do the work, why should I complain when someone else IS doing all the work?
Beanetics is wonderful you cray and why would all Asian places for taste of Annandale be bad? All the places mentioned by Jose are stellar.
As the most Vietnamese person on this thread, I find it sad that no one seems to grasp the irony of a bunch of lower middle class government employees paying illegal orientals with skimmed U.S. tax dollars to get the latest vaccine resistant covid strand.
Look folks, this event is one of the few things that allows Annandale to show off as a dynamic community instead of a dump. So let’s get pumped for this event, and to the whiners, I am certain there is another dump in Mason for you to go visit.
It’s past time to reimagine Mason District as an inclusive, equitable area that provides infrastructure justice for ALL Annandalians through communal sustenance diverse distribution systems that crush unfair historical patriarchal hegemony frameworks.
What the hell are you raving about? Time for you to visit a dump.
I’d trade Rheía for a dump. At least a dump is predictable……..