Belfast Taste Fest

ceepeedee · 07-08-2009 12:43AM #1

I took my three kids down to Botanic Gardens to have a look at the taste fest (anything to avoid cooking!), and was appalled that it was going to cost me £10 for me and a fiver each for the two older nippers (10 and 7), and nothing for my youngest if I could convincingly bluff that he was under 5 - and all that's just to get into the park, food would presumably be extra. We ended up going to an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet instead and now the kids won't need to eat until next week... Has anyone been to the fest, and is it worth that?

pow wow · 07-08-2009 06:11AM

It looks pretty impressive from the view I have of it from the new Queen's library - just a shame they play music concert style non-stop all day;) Food is extra on top of those prices, seems well out of the reach of families! (It is 'only' a fiver per head if you're in before 5pm)

ceepeedee · 07-08-2009 11:12AM

pow wow wrote: »

It looks pretty impressive from the view I have of it from the new Queen's library - just a shame they play music concert style non-stop all day;) Food is extra on top of those prices, seems well out of the reach of families! (It is 'only' a fiver per head if you're in before 5pm)

Yes, that's the first time I've set eyes on the QUB library - very impressive! 20 years ago I'd a room in the old white cube that was the David Bates building on that very site... I got my taste fest music for free then lol

Abedonders · 11-08-2009 10:36AM

Hi there.
We cycled down, intending to go in but as a cheapskate I wouldn't pay that £5.00 in. It's like paying to get in to a restaurant, so that you can then buy a meal. Was there an entrance fee in previous years? I can't remember.

Benandonner · 27-08-2009 04:12PM

ceepeedee wrote: »

Has anyone been to the fest, and is it worth that?

Been to the original in Chicago. Isn't worth it, too expensive and there's the Continental Market in Belfast anyway.

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