Our weekend at Taste Addison is completed and quite simply it was Molto Bene! We had a great time meeting so many new people that came by to visit us, to try out our Spiedies or to simply have a glass of Italian wine or a cold Peroni and learn more about us! Grazie Mille to all for visiting us and Taste Addison.
From our side, it was a long but really fun weekend. Friday started a little rough with some bad weather that came through about an hour before opening (we got evacuated for a brief time) but we rebounded quickly and had hot food ready to go within a few minutes of opening. The crowds on Friday were smaller but they were troopers and all seemed to be having a really good time. My personal favorites of Friday were two ladies from another of the booths who stopped by and had a Spiedie. As soon as they took one bite, they texted their co-workers and before long, we had served most of the staff of their booth our specialty! Thank you A#1 Air!
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| Chef Tommaso grilling the Spiedies |
Saturday started early with Chef Tommaso at the Club by 7am cooking up Spiedies for an appearance on Fox 4 Good Day. By noon when the gates opened it got busy and stayed that way all day and night long. In the early afternoon Chef Tommaso had to duck out for an hour to do a cooking demonstration over in the Taste Showcase. I personally didn’t make it over there but I heard it was a standing room only crowd. Later in the day, within 20 minutes of each other, I had 2 people stop by who knew what Spiedies are since they came from my hometown. Both being connoisseurs of them, they gave ours a thumbs up and thanked me with one saying “I never thought I would see the word Spiedie printed on a sign in Dallas, Texas”. Around 5pm the concert crowds starting rolling in and it was very busy until we closed that night.
Sunday we slept in (a relative term) and after a noon opening, we took some time to feed some of the security and vendor staffs who had been working so hard behind the scenes all weekend to support all of the vendors like us at Taste. The day was sunny and hot and the crowds were great. We closed it at 5pm and had everything struck and back at the Club by 7pm to conclude a successful weekend. In total, we served somewhere in the neighborhood of 500+ Spiedie sandwiches plus another couple hundred each of our Italian Sausage and Italian Meatball sandwiches.
Now before I recognize some people, I want to add one note. The voting for the People’s Choice Award is still open at this link on Facebook. We’re currently in 1st place and want to hold our lead until the voting closes. If you haven’t voted for us yet, please take a minute and do so!
OK, putting on Taste Addison took months of effort and there are two groups that I’d like to thank. First is the Special Events group from the City of Addison and especially Barbara Kovacevich and Chris McMurtry and also to Autumn Reo from Shiroma Southwest PR … thank you - you and your teams make this and every event we do with Addison a joy for us!
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| Some of our volunteers at the wrap! |
My personal thanks goes out to our Taste Addison Volunteers: Chef Tommaso Lestingi, Sous Chef Edgar, Angelo Vaccaro, Barbie Gumin, Gina & Tony Corazza, Fred Hansen, Doug Delsanter, Kathy Delsanter, Bobby Brown, David & Sue Mauriello, Sue & James Robertson, Matt Dio, Lisa Newman, Semira Pacifico, Tina Neal, Ben & Dottie Parlapiano, Ken & Jan Venuso, Bonnie & John Rahne, Les Jackson, Jenna Trovalli, Sheryl Champlin, Laura Justiss, Charles Castellano, Ron Miglini, Yvonne Chaney, Anthony Massa and Diane Caneva, Rae Gene Mungioli, Karen Mungioli, Chase Newman, Joe Murphy, Nick & Toni Parigi, John Pulley and Salli Goldstein.
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| Working the booth with my daughter Jenna |
I know we’ll be back at Taste next year but I hope to see you at the Club long before then and again, please remember to place a vote for us for the People’s Choice Award!
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