Taste of Cambridge

 Every year JO and I make a March Madness Bracket bet.  The loser takes the winner out for dinner, or cooks a really nice meal (this has only happened once...it much more fun to go out!)  Sadly, I lost for the second year in a row.  I blame all of my school work for making me rush my bracket picks.  I mean really, JO barely follows college basketball with the exception of UConn and they weren't even in the tournament this year.

In any event I owed JO a dinner.  I decided to take advantage of the situation and got us tickets to the Taste of Cambridge event.  It's not an event we typically attend, as the tickets are a bit pricey, but it was the end of the school year so I figured I deserved something fun and I picked up JO's ticket to settle the bet.

The even was first scheduled for the middle of June, but thanks to those monsoon rains, it was rained out.  Then the rain date was rained out.  And then the rain rain date had the possibility of being rained out so they set up a bunch of tents because can you really have a rain rain rain date?  Any how, the event was held in early July and was a really nice way to kick off the summer.  It was held in a courtyard in Central Square.  I'd never been to this particular courtyard and it was really nice.  Lots of green grass and fountains.  It would actually make for a great urban picnic spot.  I'll have to keep that in mind.

Many local restaurants participate and so you get a chance to try out a lot of food from restaurants you might not usually go to.  My only gripe with the event was the VIP section.  A lot of the best restaurants, that I really wanted to try out, were only available in the VIP tent.  Other than that we really had fun.  There was plenty of food so no worries about early exits by restaurants.  JO was actually pretty late because of work and he had no problem sampling everything.  There were also beer and wine stands so you could enjoy a drink with your food.

We had a lot of fun enjoying a night outside sampling some of the best food the city has to offer!

Best presentation of the night