Last night, hundreds of taco fans descended upon Mapfre stadium to judge Columbus’ Best Tacos. Only one could come out on top! We hope you had a great time celebrating at our third annual Best Bites: Tacos! A big shout out to all the local businesses who came out and served up their greatest tacos. We want to thank all our guests who participated in the event and acted as our judges, we appreciate your support and enjoyed your company!
Thanks so much to Mapfre Stadium for being our hosts and Columbus Crew for providing yard games for our guests to participate in. Thanks to local DJ Charles Erickson for providing us with tunes to eat our tacos by!
Tacos were sampled from: The 2017 edition of Best Bites: Tacos will feature bite sized samples from: Mi Tradicion, Local Cantina, Sunnyside Tacos, Nada, Condado, Balboa, Dos Hermanos, Phatt Taco, Cajohn’s Fiery Foods and Pretzels with a Twist.
The votes were tallied and you voted Condado as number one taco of the night with aSweet Lucy Double Decker shells!
The Top five vote-getters included:
- Condado
- Nada
- Dos Hermanos
- Mi Tradicion
- Local Cantina
An extra special thank you to the CU team that helped make this event happen: Nancy Colvin, Susan Post, Codi Giesey, Jon Mitchell, Christine Horvath and Anne and Walker Evans. I am so lucky to work with such an amazing team of people who help make each event better than the last. Thank you to all our volunteers we couldn’t have done it without you!
All of the attendees of the event helped us raise funds for Food Rescue US. Food Rescue US is committed to ending American food insecurity by directly transferring fresh, usable food that would have otherwise been thrown away from restaurants, grocers and other food industry sources to food insecure families throughout the U.S. The Columbus Underground Best Bites event series has been raising funds for local charities since launching in August 2014! Thanks for all of your support. We love hosting the Best Bites event series and we hope to see you at one of our events in the future. Stay tuned for our next event of the year!
If you shared any photos from the event on social media, tag #bestbitestacos !
Best Bites: Tacos is made possible by the help of ECDI.
