Taste Trenton Expands to ‘10 Crucial Days of Dining’
Taste Trenton, the capital city’s restaurant event featuring area restaurants in a self-guided tour throughout Trenton has announced a 10-day event for its September showcase of culinary options in the city. Newly titled “10 Crucial Days of Dining,” the effort maintains its signature restaurant crawl elements of small sampling plates at reduced prices with a more traditional restaurant week in which patrons can go to a restaurant for a regular multi-course meal at a special price. The event is set to run Friday, September 13, through Sunday, September 22.
Coordinator Bernard McMullan, explains that the expansion is in response to the requests of Taste Trenton guests who feel a single weekend is simply too short to try out all of the restaurants on the tour and want to explore more. “In addition,” he notes, “we had started to invite restaurants to offer meal specials, and about half are already offering full meal discounts or special meals at a set price. So, this is a natural evolution.”
Taste Trenton began as a single day event in summer, 2014, featuring 10 restaurants, all located in Chambersburg — the city’s best known restaurant district. In subsequent years, Taste Trenton expanded to include downtown Trenton and ran for three days. Just before the pandemic, the program grew further to include the entire city, signing up restaurants in the Top Road region, in South Trenton, and anywhere else where restaurants were offering great food. By then, the number of restaurants had expanded to 40 and represented an array of ethnic and traditional cuisines. Taste Trenton is limited to restaurants operating within city limits.
For guests, the process is straightforward. Order a “pass” on-line for $10 (www.TasteTrenton.com) valid for the entire event. Registered guests receive a return email with a TasteTrenton pass to present at each restaurant they visit. Several days before the opening of the Ten Crucial Days of Dining, menus for each participating restaurant will be posted, listing days and hours, tasting specials, featured meals, and prices on TasteTrenton.com; and printed maps will be placed at various public locations around the city. The listings also provide helpful information including type of cuisine, forms of payment accepted, whether an establishment serves or allows alcoholic beverages, and other information.
“People both within and outside Trenton are often surprised to learn that there are more than 100 restaurants with tables and menus in Trenton — and that number generally excludes pizza shops, take-out Asian, and delis,” McMullan notes. “Our task in Taste Trenton is to allow people to experience the range and diversity of those restaurants in a manner that encourages guests to walk across the threshold of each and try them out. If they have an enjoyable experience, they will come back; if not, then restaurant managers may need to consider what can be changed to make guests want to return.”
More information: www.tastetrenton.com.
Audition
Kelsey Theater on the campus of Mercer County Community College in West Windsor is hosting auditions for Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit,” presented by theater To Go.
Coward’s classic comic ghost story is about Charles Condomine, a novelist who prepares a séance as a joke in order to gain information for his new novel. He invites the eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance. She turns out to be quite powerful, summoning Charles’s first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for several years. But only Charles can see Elvira, who begins to enchant him as she always had. Tensions rise when Elvira makes increasingly desperate attempts to be seen, and who gleefully upsets the whole household by tossing furniture and creating chaos.
The show will have five performances between Thursday, October 31, and Sunday, November 3.
Auditions take place Thursday September 5, from 7 to 10 p.m., and Sunday, September 8, from 1 to 5 p.m., with callbacks by invitation if needed. Make an audition appointment at https://tinyurl.com/AUDITION-Blithe-Spirit.
Auditions will be held on the MCCC campus at 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. Check the Kelsey Theatre signboard for a room location.
Auditions will be in groups with actors reading from the script. The play seeks actors who can do British or refined Transatlantic accents. Please prepare a photo, resume, current conflict dates, and, optionally, a two-minute comedic monologue.
For more information contact info@TheaterToGo.com.
