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| - My wife and two kids and I went to the Taco Festival after anticipating it ALL week! We were so excited to try all the different types of tacos touted online. We didn't mind the $10 tickets, although we were annoyed they were half off the day after we bought them on deal chicken or living social or something. Anyway, we got a QR code ticket confrimation and nothing else, so we printed out the black and white jigsaw puzzle looking thing and headed to the festival.
We got there early to try to avoid the crowds and the heat since it was supposed to be 100F. We got there with our crazy QR code and the ticket people at the south entrance looked at us like we were crazy. They told us we had to go to the North entrance to get it scanned because they didn't have the scanner at the South Entrance.
Ok so here's my first problem. If you're expecting 10,000 people and you are sending out these QR codes to be all high tech, you better be ready to scan them. Instead they made my wife, me, my toddler and infant, trek over to the North Entrance, where they still didn't know what to do with our ticket but let us in anyway~!!!!! It's not that it was far, it was more of the principle of the matter.
This was the start of a frustrating experience.
We bought 7 tickets, thinking 7 tacos would probably be plenty. $2 per taco is kinda pricey but hey it goes to charity right? But $2 for non-alcoholic drinks was a little much. If you're charging $2 for beer and also for a 12 oz soda, there's something wrong with that. Besides, we could hardly find the non-alcoholic drinks to actually buy!
The dust and dirt everywhere made the eating experience less than palatable. It's not their fault it was so stinking hot; last weekend was beautiful here in Phoenix. They could have put up more shade though.
The saving grace of the festival was really the tacos. We never found the grasshopper tacos, but really enjoyed the different variety of tacos with hot sauces.
Best bang for the buck- Chelsea's kitchen's short rib tacos. Amazing. We're going to have to try this restuarant.
Most disappointing- PV Burger's Shrimp taco. two pieces of small shrimp. The sauce was good but presentation made it the worst of the day.
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