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| - Bite of Las Vegas this year has redeemed Las Vegas food festivals for me. We were blessed with AMAZING weather all day that cooled off in the evening...sooo unlike typical Las Vegas weather. The crew was very well organized and helpful as they really had their stuff together. The parking was relatively painless and traffic entering/leaving moved along without a hitch. Most of the food vendors are local restaurants like Hash House a GoGo, Culinary Dropout, Rainforest Cafe, The Great American Pub etc., but the great part is that they are not food trucks that are slow to deliver, these vendors were very well prepared to handle the crowd and keep the line to a minimum.... something that food truck festivals fail miserable at.
Let's start with the ticket prices, which we bought prior to the event for under $20. That gave us the viewing pleasure of 8 artists on stage and access to about 40 food vendors that were priced about $5 per item. What a great deal!
Food:
Now having experienced some other "food fest", I was a bit soured and didn't expect much from the BLV vendors. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised, not overwhelmed though, but pleasantly surprised by the food selection and value. We started with Texas de Brazil that offered 3 choices of meats with a roll for $5...garlic sirloin which was melt-in-your-mouth good, sausage was very tasty, the bacon wrapped chicken was actually not bad at all. The roll was a bit dry but a nice addition. All the food was about $5 and portions were decent for a food festival. The Culinary Dropout offered Pretzel bites with cheese fondue with a "happy hour 2 for 1 special"...2 orders of pretzel bites or 1 order with a salmon bruschetta. The pretzel bites were fun and tasty to eat. My daughter tried the salmon bruschetta and liked it. We also had the Hawaiian shaved iced that was perfect to enjoy under the mild Vegas sun. 3 flavors for $5. They had it down to a system where you got your ice pretty quick with generous amount of syrup. Hash House A GoGo is one I would never go eat at again because I think their food is terrible, but they did know how to make a refreshing 3 color Watermelon Kiwi Lemonade that had everyone gawking. H & H BBQ had rib tip fries that were off the hook delicious. Generous amounts of tender BBQ rib tips atop natural cut fries...I would have loved seconds on this. The Great American Pub had lobster mac & cheese and crab fries. I don't usually like anyone else's mac & cheese other than my own but GAP had a pretty good version that we all enjoyed. Creamy cheese sauce, not overly cheesy with bright hints of green onion and crispy bread crumb topping...and it had actual pieces of lobster. I think I would go to GAP to get this again. The crab fries were ok. I don't know where they came up with crab since the white sauce didn't have any crab in it, but still a nice outdoor fest treat.
The entertainment was awesome. There were some moments when the bass was a bit too much and caused some of us to loose a filling, but the lineup was great. Lindsey Stirling was our favorite and she delivered a great show. I don't know how one dances around like her and maintains playing the violin. She's one talented gal. OAR was good too. My brother is a Daughtry fan but he wasn't on until 7:30 and the weather was getting cold so we packed up. He said he has the album on iTunes :)
All in all, this was a great event that we will look forward to again next year. Just some tips that made our experience that much better was that we came prepared with comfortable cushy folding seats ($19 at Walmart), a large frozen Smart Water bottle for each of us was plenty of hydration to last the day, a collapsible picnic shade tent (at Sears) was perfect to cool off in and the envy of everyone that walked by us. They don't allow outside coolers, but in the event you have special medication for your kids that need refrigeration, they do allow a lunchbox sized cooler to carry it in. I hope next year's weather will be as beautiful as it was that day, but also bring a light hoodie in case it gets cool.
Great job Bite of Las Vegas! This was the best Food Festival experience for us.
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