Taste Trenton, the Capital City restaurant crawl, returns Friday through Sunday, July 21 through 23, to show off some of Trenton’s best eateries.
The annual event bills itself as a self-guided restaurant crawl in which ‘guests’ visit Trenton restaurants at a low cost to learn about their food and ambiance.
Restaurants participate by submitting a brief application describing their “tasting menu” dishes, typically small plate specials that provide a sample of their signature dish for $3 to $10 or a dinner and drink or breakfast fare specials.
Taste Trenton guests purchase wrist bands ($10 for event or $7 day pass), receive a map and online application link that shows restaurant names, addresses, telephone numbers, websites, and the 2023 Taste Trenton “special menus.”
The map and website also indicate which restaurants are newly opened, those that are new to the tour, and those who are returning. Materials also indicate which Taste Trenton days and hours the restaurant will be open, the type of cuisine offered, as well as an indication of which accept credit cards and which offer wine, beer, or other alcoholic drinks, allow BYOB, or that prohibit alcoholic beverages.
“We maintain the Taste Trenton website throughout the year, so our guests can use it as a guide to identify other restaurants to try,” says Taste Trenton coordinator Bernard McMullan.
Taste Trenton began in June 2015 as a single-day Trenton Council of Civic Associations project. An independent nonprofit now coordinates the multi-day event that has grown to include 40 restaurants and attracts nearly 300 guests.
For more information, go to www.tastetrenton.com.
