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Overall, I dug the AZ Taco Festival now that it is in its new location by Salt River Fields. There were many taco booths, each selling street tacos for $2 (1 ticket). Some of the best were Distrito (pork), Four Seasons (pork), and Cottonwood (shrimp).
There were some other food options as well for your taco hating friends who were dragged to this event. But really, as the festival's slogan goes, "who doesn't love tacos?" There were non food tents too, selling jewelry and other junk you don't need. Lots of beer tents, a wedding, wrestling, go-cart racing and a play area for kids.
One tip for future Taco Fest goers: You might wanna go Saturday instead of Sunday. I noticed about a half dozen empty tents on Sunday that were apparently occupied the day before.
Great moment: Noticing the drunk guy from the Sandbar tent was taking part in the taco eating contest, predicting he would puke, and then seeing him so so on stage.
Boring Part of the Festival: The rest of the taco eating contest. Couldn't hear announcer and I was expecting to see these dudes going nuts eating as many tacos as they could. Instead it was something about spicy tacos I think. Contest started, they took their time eating, I was bored. Change this please.
Weakest aspect of the festival: El Hefe tent filling up as many beer cup as they can, to just have them sit there getting warm and then serving them. Weak! I had no problem returning my warm beer for a fresh cold pour.
It was nice meeting Yelp's new intern, Jenny R., at the Yelp booth! Special thanks to Yelp for the 50% off discount code on tickets!
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