By Daily Press staff
SM PIER — It’s time to get a taste of Santa Monica seaside.
The fifth annual Taste of Santa Monica is a food festival showcasing 40 local restaurants and features chef demonstrations and live music. Admission is $40 for adults, $10 for children between 4 and 10 years old, and includes all food. Beverages are additional.
Food lovers young and old can eat to their hearts’content and learn some tips and techniques to preparing gourmet cuisine from culinary experts at the Taste of Santa Monica, held on Sunday, Sept. 17, from noon to 4 p.m. The Taste of Santa Monica will be a fun-filled day of food, drink and entertainment hosted by the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce and held on the historic Santa Monica Pier. A selection of Santa Monica’s finest restaurants will serve a wide range of gourmet dishes.
Due to its popularity and success last year, Young’s Market & the Estates Group will bring back the wine garden, which will feature 15 different wineries showcasing 30 to 40 varietals. Wine garden tickets are an additional $15. Tickets are available at www.tasteofsanta-monica.com or (310) 393 9825, ext. 10. Each year the Chamber of Commerce selects a local member nonprofit organization to participate in the event, and this year the featured nonprofit is The Wellness Community–West Los Angeles (TWC-WLA). The organization is dedicated to helping cancer patients fight for their recovery, along with their medical team.
“We are thrilled to have been selected to participate in this year’s Taste of Santa Monica. It is a wonderful way for us to raise awareness about the free programs for cancer support we offer to the local community. If we reach just one person who didn’t know about TWC-WLA prior to the event, who learns that neither they or their loved one needs to go through the cancer journey alone, it will have been a success.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 14, 2006. Read the original PDF.