Free food festival in North Natomas? Check out the Great Foodie Experience
The third annual More Flava In Ya Mouth food festival presents its Great Foodie Experience, a free community event where a variety of food vendors will be on display.
Food lovers can enjoy a diverse eating selection from 1 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 31, at North Natomas Regional Park, located 2501 New Market Drive.
Father-daughter business duo Berry and Adejah Accius, founders of the Black Food Fest, started the More Flava In Ya Mouth event to combine a diverse group of vendors and create a dynamic foodie experience.
“We’re basically celebrating the diversity of culinary arts here in Sacramento, as we’ve been known to be one of the most diverse cities in America,” Berry Accius said. “We felt just looking at all the different food vendors, the different entrepreneurs all throughout the city, the different pop-ups that have been just springing everywhere and put them all together in one area like Natomas.”
One thing Accius said people can expect is for all the food to have that “flavor.”
Food and drink vendors include Seriously Delicious Eats, Champs Chicken, Mo Classic Eats & Treats, Saucy Oysters, Dos Tacos y Mas, Who Want Smoke Catering, Chilly Jays Barbecue and Fine Foods, Daughters Barbecue, Delicious Dishez, Combined Power MC, Helwa, Rainbow Italian Ice, Dubb Ya Bees, Funnelicious Cakes, Sweet Treat Paradise, TeaLade, The Slush Shack, Gunners Coffee and Jay The Cheesecake Queen.
More vendors will be announced closer to the event.
“We wanted to kind of spread that love and a nice, diverse community to be able to blend all these different nationalities and different flavors of sweet treats, savory food, drinks, we want to combine it all. That’s why we called it the Great Foodie Experience,” he said.
In addition to the array of food and drink options, there will also be retail vendors, local entertainment, a kid-zone, a water park and low riders displayed by the Sacramento Lowrider Commission.
“Bring your lawn chairs. Bring your towels, it’s a nice park,” Accius said. “I feel like this is an important part to bring us all together, and one of the things that brings us all together at the table is food. So that’s why we wanted to diversify the food at the table, so we all can come together, break bread, celebrate our uniqueness, celebrate our culture and other people’s cultures.”
Free registration for the Great Foodie Experience is available on Eventbrite.
