My problem w/the Taste isn't lack of healty options, it's lack of imagination. We're skipping it this year, because the same restaurants serve the same thing every year....last year we realized we'd tried all the food that was there in all the previous years....maybe next year there will be some new things to try!
Buffalo Tours will be offering free tours of City Hall (including the observation deck!) throughout Taste, so check it out and "feast your eyes" on the view from the 28th floor! And on the theme of healthy options, you can even take the stairs up...
My pet peeve is the 450,000 number...Really????????? I bet you it doesn't even exceed 50,000 people daily. Remember the UB professor who said his research show that attendance each day at the Allentown Arts Festival is closer to 35,000 each day - not the 100,000 to 200,000 people a day that festival organizers claimed. Since then, the Festival doesn't guess attendance figures. I'm glad Buffalo can be the biggest at something, but let's earn it...not over inflate it.
mepolo, I wholeheartedly agree. It's gotten boring with the same restaurants offering the same things over and over again. It used to be that we thought "I can't wait to go", now if there's nothing else going on we'll head to the Taste. If each vendor changed just a single item in their offering each year that would be wonderful.
On the claim that Taste of Buffalo is the second largest food festival in US. Where can this be verified? There's no mentioning of Buffalo on the Wikipedia page when it comes to food festival. It would be nice to officially post this on Wikipedia so we can get the recognition that we deserve. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_festival
Do me a favor, lets not use Wikipedia and fact in the same sentence. It is Wikipedia, it can be edited by anyone. Just a thought
Secondly, I agree that the fesitval in no way gets 450,000 people. I bet it is around 175,000.
Good point, perry. 450K means that about half of Erie County would have been in attendance.
Though I understand people's hesitance to believe some of the numbers thrown around for event attendance in our city, some of the numbers aren't off. For example, last year the Chicken Wing Festival served over 76,000 people. Of those 76,000 people easily half or more weren't from anywhere in Erie County. Often on this site I have seen people make reference to numbers being wrong based on local population counts, but I think city-dwellers are out of touch with how many people come here from outside of the county (and the state) for our major events.
Without a gate to get in its all statistics and best guess. Estimate an average density per block, muliply it by the number of blocks and then survey people to see how long they stay and multiply by that. You will still have a large plus-minus but you'll have an idea.
And we do underestimate the outside draw. Even up in Lockport its eye opening to see the people visting the locks, taking the boat tours, etc. It is even more opening to look at the license plates. We have a lot of draws in WNY that can be packaged together to lure people in.
I just look forward to eating.
to be fair, TOB does have its own wikipedia page...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_of_Buffalo
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