Taste Trenton
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Taste Trenton is expanding to become Ten Crucial Days of Dining
Friday, Sept 13 through Sunday, Sept 22, 2024
Same great deals, new restaurants, old friends, more time = more eating!
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Listen to Taste Trenton founder, Bernard McMullan talk about last year's Taste Trenton on The Trenton Waves podcast! Click on the image or here to listen!
Taste Trenton, the Capital City’s Restaurant Crawl, returns in a new, expanded format as: Ten Crucial Days of Dining on Friday, September 13 lasting through Sunday, September 22, 2024 |
![Taste Trenton 2019, bernard mcmullan, tcca, tda, trenton nj](/uploads/1/2/4/8/124877012/editor/taste-trenton.jpg?1555524486)
Taste Trenton, the acclaimed Capital City restaurant crawl, returns in a new expanded format beginning Friday, September 13 and continuing through Sunday, September 22, 2024 offering much more time for you to try out more of Trenton’s best eateries.
Once again, food adventurers will enjoy reduced-price dishes at restaurants across Trenton. As in previous Taste Trenton events, there's a dizzying array of cuisine options including Costa Rican, Venezuelan, Dominican, Polish, and Guatemalan. As well restaurants featuring BBQ, classic African-American fare, and other choices, too! And there's stout, whiskey, and ice cream, too!
SPECIAL DESTINATIONS: As in previous years, we hope to keep "special" destinations this year and added a few new wrinkles. We are continuing our popular breakfast stops as a way to start your dining day. And we are identifying some late night "close-out-day" options, too What a great way to enjoy Trenton!
Once again, food adventurers will enjoy reduced-price dishes at restaurants across Trenton. As in previous Taste Trenton events, there's a dizzying array of cuisine options including Costa Rican, Venezuelan, Dominican, Polish, and Guatemalan. As well restaurants featuring BBQ, classic African-American fare, and other choices, too! And there's stout, whiskey, and ice cream, too!
SPECIAL DESTINATIONS: As in previous years, we hope to keep "special" destinations this year and added a few new wrinkles. We are continuing our popular breakfast stops as a way to start your dining day. And we are identifying some late night "close-out-day" options, too What a great way to enjoy Trenton!
As in recent years, are goal is to include 30 to 40 restaurants. But, who knows? Having 10 days to feature their restaurant may entice more great restaurants to join the fun! Of course, we will be featuring many of the new restaurants that have opened in Trenton in the past year or so. At this point, we've identified a dozen new places and we are hard at work recruiting them. Taste Trenton began in 2015 as a project of the Trenton Council of Civic Associations (TCCA) as an effort to re-introduce Trenton’s restaurant scene to the residents of Trenton and surrounding communities after several well-known restaurants in the Chambersburg Restaurant District closed or re-located to the suburbs.
![Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora and 1911 Smokehouse BBQ owner Reggie Hallett. Photo Courtesy of 78 Ways Studios' Will Foskey](/uploads/1/2/4/8/124877012/published/smokehouse.jpg?1558374387)
Here’s how it works: Food tourists purchase admission(just $10) on this Taste Trenton website. Admission is valid for the entire 10 day event.
The tour is self-guided; those on the tour select which restaurants they want to visit, how long they want to stay, and which of the specials they want to try. Since its launch in 2015 as a one-day event focused on 12 restaurants in Chambersburg, Taste Trenton has expanded to an entire weekend promoting dozens of restaurants throughout the city. Each event has attracted more and more guests, from 150 participants in the first year to upwards of 325 in the next three Taste Trenton events. And now, in hour of our 10th anniversary, we are expanding--by popular request--to 10 days: two weekends and the week between them.
“We believe that getting people to cross the thresholds of restaurants is very important.” Bernard McMullan, Taste Trenton's coordinator, notes. “The tour guides people to the restaurants; the reduced price samples mean guests are not concerned about dropping a lot of money on something they don’t like; and, the restaurant has the opportunity to make these guests return visitors.”
1911 Smokehouse Co-owner, Reggie Hallett, is a strong supporter of Taste Trenton. “When we were invited to join in the second year, we jumped at the opportunity. I can confidently point to 15 to 20 of our regular customers who first came to the Smokehouse for that event, and they haven’t stopped coming.”
The tour is self-guided; those on the tour select which restaurants they want to visit, how long they want to stay, and which of the specials they want to try. Since its launch in 2015 as a one-day event focused on 12 restaurants in Chambersburg, Taste Trenton has expanded to an entire weekend promoting dozens of restaurants throughout the city. Each event has attracted more and more guests, from 150 participants in the first year to upwards of 325 in the next three Taste Trenton events. And now, in hour of our 10th anniversary, we are expanding--by popular request--to 10 days: two weekends and the week between them.
“We believe that getting people to cross the thresholds of restaurants is very important.” Bernard McMullan, Taste Trenton's coordinator, notes. “The tour guides people to the restaurants; the reduced price samples mean guests are not concerned about dropping a lot of money on something they don’t like; and, the restaurant has the opportunity to make these guests return visitors.”
1911 Smokehouse Co-owner, Reggie Hallett, is a strong supporter of Taste Trenton. “When we were invited to join in the second year, we jumped at the opportunity. I can confidently point to 15 to 20 of our regular customers who first came to the Smokehouse for that event, and they haven’t stopped coming.”