The date for the eighteenth Taste of Clayton food festival is set for Sunday, June 3. From 1 to 8:30 p.m., guests will enjoy samplings from fifteen of Clayton’s award winning restaurants for $7 or less per taste. Each restaurant will offer a special $2 tasting.
The location of the Taste has changed from Shaw Park to downtown Clayton on Brentwood Boulevard between Forsyth and Maryland.
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Festivities will include live entertainment throughout the day by local St. Louis entertainers DJ Crucial, American Idle and Griffin & the Gargoyles. From 2 to 7:30 p.m., First National Bank will sponsor Taste Jr., the everything-for-kids area, featuring kid’s cuisine, balloon artists and fun activities like face painting and a circus workshop.
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“There is no admission fee,” said Clayton’s Event Specialist Janet LeMay. “We are looking forward to a great crowd this year.”
Operation Food Search will collect canned goods. With a donation of five canned goods or $5 for one ticket, 10 canned goods or $10 for three or 20 canned goods or $20 for eight tickets, a guest can enter to win fabulous prizes including, Apple IPAD, 4G, WIFI, 32 GB, Toshiba 32” LED Television, Apple IPod Touch, 8 GB, dinner for 4 at Chipotle, dinner for 2 at Chipoltle. Prizes courtesy of Commerce Bank. Operation Food Search was established in 1981. Each month, Operation Food Search distributes more than 2 million pounds of food and necessities to 250 community partner agencies which in turn feed 130,000 poor people each month, nearly one-third of whom are children. To learn more about Operation Food Search, visit www.OperationFoodSearch.org.