Eating out can get expensive really quickly, but on Saturday, March 26, you can go to a place where every dish you could possibly order is just $5. The touring Five Dollar Food Festival seeks to keep dishes cheap across the U.S., so you can afford to try as many as you possibly can. With a whopping seven stops in the metropolitan Phoenix area, the festival tour will make it’s only Tucson stop on Saturday, to offer a wide array of dishes, paired with live music, beer and more to keep you entertained throughout the event.
The festival at this time includes a diverse line-up of vendors offering everything from Japanese takoyaki (deep fried octopus dumplings) to Mexican tacos and chicken to artisan chocolates and more. Local food truck favorites such as American Flying Buffalo, Bugaloos soft serve and Don Pedro’s Peruvian Bistro are also slotted to attend the festival with craft beer and margarita options if you should get thirsty. Live music and performances will also be on display during the event.
The Five Dollar Food Festival will run from noon until 7 p.m. at the Kino Sports Complex (2500 E. Ajo Way). Tickets are available for $5 and all dishes will be $5 as well. The event itself is cash only, but you can buy your admission online in advance and find out further information on the Five Dollar Food Festival by visiting the festival’s website.
This article appears in Mar 17-23, 2016.
Hmmm. “cheap eats”? $29 for two to enter plus $5 per plate. Nothing cheap here. Support your local food truck vendors who are here all year.
I don’t get it. So we’re supposed park (probably also for a fee) and walk a half mile to the entrance, pay to get into the event, then pay for every plate of food AND pay for drinks? Yikes! That would get expensive real quick and to support what exactly?!
This event is run by a FOR PROFIT company; i.e., some folks created a traveling party for themselves to eat while seeing the world on everyone else’s dollar. Gotta love American entrepreneurism.
I’d rather have a nice dinner SERVED to me and support a local restaurant and local staff.
Come on taxpayers the County is trying to recoup the millions they wasted on building Kino Sports Stadium on Ajo Rd when it could have been downtown with a real river walk. So that’s why they are adding these cheesey high rent generating farces. To try to pay the bills.
Cough it up!
If you payed for your tickets in advance prior to Wednesday they were five dollars, and plates were also five dollars. The food was good especially the fried mexican rice. I enjoyed the atmosphere and talking to people while trying some different foods I normally wouldn’t have tried. I do agree there were some hiccups as this was the first year in Tucson. But I will return next year and give it s second shot as I was told several local vendors were wanting to join in next year.
The San Francisco Chocolate Factory is very unprofessional. Here is a feed from their facebook page.
This is what I posted to the $5 Dollar Food Festival organizers…..I had attended the $5 Dollar Food Fest in Tucson AZ on March 26th at the Kino Sports Complex. Its my understanding that your policy was as follows….Receipt Policy: If you do not get a receipt for each Food Plate you buy, you will get that Food Plate for FREE. (ALL Vendors are required to provide you a receipt for each and every transaction. Otherwise, they have to give you the meal for FREE.). However, the San Francisco Chocolate Factory DID NOT honor this policy. I ordered a chocolate covered cheesecake, paid for my purchase, the clerk gave me my change and started waiting on other patrons. I turned to leave and then I realized that I WAS NOT given a receipt. I went back to the stand, got the clerk’s attention and informed him that I was not given a receipt and what the policy was on this, that was clearly advertised. The clerk was rude and told me that he will give me a receipt because he was not giving me my $5 dollars back. He then went to their register and printed off a receipt and literally threw it at me. I went to the ticket booth and was told that a manager was not available at that time and it might be a wait until the manager was available. This is very unprofessional and it all started with the man working at the San Francisco Chocolate Factory booth. All of your vendors should be abiding by your policy.
San Francisco Chocolate Factory reply: It was our policy to give you a receipt. However you walked off before we could have a chance to give you it. When you came back and ask for your receipt we had already thrown it out so I printed you another receipt. Bottom line is you got your receipt. Nuff said!
I didn’t leave…I literally stood there waiting for the clerk to give me a receipt. When he wouldn’t acknowledge me and started to wait on other customers, that is when I left. Bottom line…you didn’t give me a receipt in the timely manner you should have, after I made my purchase. Rude and unprofessional.
San Francisco Chocolate Factory reply: I’m very sorry you feel you want something for nothing
A sincere apology from your company would have been sufficient. However, this comment feed showcasing your rudeness and unprofessionalism is sufficient.