Taste Of Lakewood Returns To Madison Park On June 7

The 12th Annual Taste of Lakewood, co-presented by the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce and Cleveland Magazine, will be held on Sunday, June 7th at Madison Park. Although the Taste of Lakewood is all about promoting Lakewood’s outstanding restaurants, a couple of new tasty ingredients have been added to this year’s outdoor day-long food festival.

The GOOD FOOD Kids' Garden Tent

Join the Lakewood Earth & Food (LEAF) Community in the Good Food Kids Garden Tent from 1-4pm. Paint a pot for your tomato seedling and take home a healthy recipe to try (limited to first 200 visitors). The LEAF Cooks cookbook, a collection of recipes submitted by vendors, farmers, gardeners, market shoppers, community supported agriculture shareholders, and chefs, will be available for purchase. All recipes include local ingredients available seasonally around Ohio. Need some gardening tips? Tour the beautiful Madison Park Community Garden and be inspired by your neighbors’ green thumbs. Looking for a quiet spot to peruse your LEAF cookbook? Visit the Madison Branch Reading Garden at Madison Park. The Good Food Kids Garden Tent is sponsored by Lakewood Hospital with support from Lakewood Public Library Madison Branch, Lakewood Garden Center, and the LEAF Community.

The GOOD STUFF Merchant Market

The Taste of Lakewood has added a “Good Stuff” Lakewood Merchant market that will feature Lakewood’s unique retailers, talented artists and craftspeople, and event sponsors. The Lakewood Chamber of Commerce and Cleveland Magazine, co-presenters of this year’s event, have added this new merchant market area in order to give Lakewood-based businesses exposure to a large regional audience. Contact the Chamber office at 216-226-2900 for more information.

Pier W VIP Experience

Gather your friends and enjoy the Taste of Lakewood “VIP style” in the Pier W VIP Tent. The $50 VIP ticket includes reserved parking, seating in the VIP tent, two food items of your choice delivered to your table, separate VIP bar, dessert provided by Pier W, and a chance to win a complete Dinner for Four at Pier W. A limited number of tickets remain for the two VIP seatings – purchase tickets at tasteoflakewood.com.

All of this, plus thirty food vendors and three bands on the First Federal Lakewood GOOD TUNES stage, promise to make this year’s Taste of Lakewood the biggest and best yet.

How to get there

The Taste of Lakewood will be at the south end of Madison Park in a larger event footprint, including a portion of Athens Avenue that will be closed between the park’s south parking lot and Clarence Avenue.

  • From points east or west, take the RTA Red Line and exit at W. 117th Street (W. 117th & Madison) and walk 1/2 mile west on Madison Avenue to Madison Park.
  • New in 2015: the West Side Shuffle bus will be providing continuous service in Lakewood from 12:45pm to 8pm to get you to and from the event for $2 per ride. Visit tasteoflakewood.com for details.
  • Ride your bike or walk to Madison Park
  • Driving to the Taste of Lakewood: Parking will be limited. Street parking or the parking lot at Harrison Elementary School (between Quail and Dowd Avenues, two blocks east of Madison Park) are options for those who wish to drive to the event. (Note: The north lot at Madison Park will be reserved for food vendor, merchant market vendor, entertainment and event equipment vehicles.)

Volunteer at the Taste of Lakewood
Last year’s Taste of Lakewood attracted over 10,000 people from the region who know of Lakewood’s reputation as a great food destination. To put our best foot forward, we need a small army of volunteers to help set-up, sell tickets, pour beer, keep the event clean, keep our vendors happy, and clean up after the event! Be part of the Taste of Lakewood team – sign up at tasteoflakewood.com!

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Volume 11, Issue 11, Posted 3:04 PM, 05.26.2015