Taste! Central Florida 2017 this August 19th

Saturday, August 19, 2017
6:45 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

at Orlando World Center Marriott
8701 World Center Dr.
Orlando, FL 32821

Featuring the area’s most accomplished chefs, brewers, wine purveyors and spirit vendors, Taste! Central Florida invites the community to enjoy an evening of tasting portions of signature dishes accompanied by fine wines, craft beers, and specialty cocktails.

This annual celebration of the community’s culinary excellence is a volunteer-driven event with local chefs, brewers and distilleries donating their time, talent and creations to make this event one of the largest fundraisers of the year for Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida and Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida.

An all-volunteer steering committee, more than 300 day-of event volunteers, tremendous in-kind support from a variety of local business partners, and the generous backing of Orlando World Center Marriott who donates the event space each year allows us to direct every dollar raised to our beneficiaries while generating profound awareness and relief for the children of Central Florida who face hunger on a daily basis.

Tickets are $150 per person, and can be purchased at centralfloridataste.org. Every dollar raised fights hunger and homelessness in the Central Florida via the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central FL and Coalition for the Homeless of Central FL.

This year’s participating restaurants:

4 Rivers Smokehouse & The Coop
American Culinary Federation – Central Florida Chapter
Benihana
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
Cala Bella at Rosen Shingle Creek
Ace Cafe Orlando
Canvas Restaurant & Market
The Capital Grille
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida
Centerplate
CFHLA Food & Beverage Council
Chroma Modern Bar + Kitchen
Cress Restaurant
Dragonly Robata Sushi and Grill
Eleven Restaurant at Reunion Resort
Empress Sissi Cake & Pastry
Florida Nitro
FreshPoint
Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
Hemisphere Restaurant at Hyatt OIA
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grand Lakes
Rosen Shingle Creek
Marlow’s Tavern
Orlando Food Department Co.
Orlando World Center Marriott
Paddlefish
Plancha at Four Seasons Resort
Primo at JW Marriott, Grande Lakes
Raglan Road
The Ravenous Pig
Red Wing Restaurant
Satu-Li Canteen at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Savor…Osceola Heritage Park
Seasons 52 Fresh Grill
SeaWorld Parks & Resorts Orlando
STK
Sysco
Universal Orlando Resort
Urbain 40 American Brasserie
The Whiskey
Yak & Yeti

Beverage
This year’s participating beverage vendors.
Acqua Panna & S. Pellegrino
Beam Suntory
Beso Del Sol Sangria
Big Top Brewing Company
Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant
Crooked Can Brewing Company
Florida Dairy Farmers
Jackson Family Wines
Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards
Natalie’s Orchid Island Juice Company
NOI Caffe by Rico Foods
Orange Blossom Brewing Co.
Orlando Brewing
Pabst Brewing Company
Palm Ridge Reserve Whiskey
PepsiCo
Red Cypress Brewery
Rogue Pub
Scavi & Ray Winery
Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits
Tito’s Handmade Vodka
Wild Buck Whiskey/Njoy Spirits

The funds raised by Taste! Central Florida help Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida provide shelter and services to more than 140 children and their families each night and serve more than 270,000 nutritious meals in the coming year.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida directs the funds raised from Taste! Central Florida to childhood hunger relief programs at their agency to assist the 1 in 4 kids in Orlando who struggle with hunger.

Hunger Facts

• In Central Florida, 1 in 6 people struggle with food insecurity.
• Approximately 498,000 individuals turn to Second Harvest’s food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their family each year.
• 193,000 kids don’t know where their next meal is coming from.
• 1 in 4 kids in our community is at risk of going to bed hungry every night.
• 27% are children under the age of 18
• 113 million more meals a year are needed to fill the hunger gap in our community.
• 44.5% of Florida households cannot afford basic needs such as housing, childcare, food, health care, and transportation – the vast majority of these families are working.

TASTE! CENTRAL FLORIDA GOLDEN TICKET GAME 2017

Leading up to this year’s Taste! Central Florida gala on August 19, select Orlando-area restaurants are participating in the annual Golden Ticket game, with the prize of two tickets to this year’s event.

How It Works

Each participating restaurant (listed below) will receive a bundle of envelopes. Within each envelope is either a “silver ticket” with a discount code for real tickets, or a “golden ticket” with instructions on how to redeem your complementary event tickets.  Tickets are $150 per person, and can be purchased at centralfloridataste.org. Every dollar raised fights hunger and homelessness in the Central Florida via the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central FL and Coalition for the Homeless of Central FL.