We heard from a fellow vendor at the OB market about another street set-up in North Park. It was on Friday nights with a different theme each week. The first one featured craft beer, cars & live music.
The location was about two blocks away from the Belching Beaver tasting room that we'd set up at over fifty times in the last three years. But, we got the necessary insurance & showed up early on a hot Friday afternoon to unload the tent & grill & nab a parking spot a few blocks away.
I think the coordinators were going for a some sort of neighborhood "block party" theme. There was a little stage, a trailer serving cocktails & brews & a play area for kids all crammed on Utah Street between a local butcher shop, furniture store & a Sonic Drive-In.
Local TV, Channel 8 was even there do to a story on diversity, interviewing most of the other hot food vendors (all 3 or 4 of them) besides us. A nice guy with a hair net on his beard selling "Chicken Piri Piri," got a good spot on the segment we watched later on the 11 o'clock news.
After the sun went down & things cooled off, we found our groove selling Cheezers. It ended up being a good night for us, even though a bit unorganized for loading & unloading our car.
We also found out it was only to be held on the first Friday of each month- & only through September (something about permits).
It looked like next week I'd have to go on another market scout trip.
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