Auditorium Shores at Town Lake Metropolitan Park
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Waterfront park with dog area, events, fire pits, demos
Waterfront park with dog area, events, fire pits, demos
"This waterfront park serves as the November host for Austin’s largest annual food festival, providing expansive daytime Chef Showcase tents, vendor booths, and communal fire-pit cooking stations that are consistently recommended as must-try stops. The grounds are heavy on wine and craft beverage offerings, with curated drink stops and an emphasis on planning your day (one demo, one drinks class, and roaming is a common strategy). The weekend culminates with a lively closing DJ set that turns the final 90 minutes into dancing and revelry; note that beverage service ends promptly at closing and safety planning for heading home is advised." - Nadia Chaudhury
"This park in Bouldin Creek will host the city's biggest food event: a three-day eating-and-drinking festival running Friday, November 1 through Sunday, November 3, featuring the main chef showcases and fire pits across the festival grounds." - Nadia Chaudhury
"A large outdoor waterfront park in the Bouldin Creek area serving as the main festival grounds, hosting daytime and evening festival activity such as fire pits, food stalls, cooking demonstrations, and large chef showcases." - Nadia Chaudhury
"Located at 900 West Riverside Drive in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood, this park is the usual site for the Austin Food & Wine Festival — one of the city’s biggest food events — and will host the festival again from Saturday, November 4 through Sunday, November 5. The weekend typically features a main outdoor tasting where Texas restaurants offer bites, wineries and drink companies provide samples, chefs cook and share food from fire pits, and nationally recognized chefs lead cooking demonstrations; auxiliary programming usually includes competitions such as the Rock Your Taco contest and additional dinners and brunches. The festival, produced by Food & Wine magazine and C3 Presents, is in its 12th year (originally held each April since 2012, moved to November in 2021 and canceled in 2016 and 2020), with the chef lineup to be announced on Thursday, August 24 and presale tickets available to code-holders starting Tuesday, August 22 at 10 a.m.; typical ticket types include weekend, VIP and single-day passes, with prices TBA." - Nadia Chaudhury
"Austin’s main New Year’s Eve celebration—fireworks at Auditorium Shores—will feature a lineup of food trucks including Amy’s Ice Creams, Shawarma Point, Garbo’s, and Burro Cheese Kitchen, and, for the first time, attendees will be able to buy beer, wine, and champagne from an on-site beer hall; the event takes place Saturday, December 31 from 6 p.m. to midnight." - Nadia Chaudhury