Slow Food First Coast Slow Down

We just returned back from the Slow Down Slow Food First Coast Dinner. The rain couldn’t keep a few hundred folks from this event. There was plenty of beer from Intuition Ale Works. The food was good and really good. To Start we hit Hawker’s they had tofu, jerk chicken, and pork skewers. Prepared and served by Kalib, Tim and a couple of the other owners. Then you had Moxie and Tom Grey himself was creating his delicious morsels of yumminess. Then Black Sheep had a smoked trout crostini. You could move on the a beef hash style dish with a quail egg on top from Uptown Market. One of the better dishes for me came from Nola’s chef. The cold corn chowder was fabulous. Then the lobster rolls were equally delish from 29 South. You had to almost fight your way into Corner Taco’s truck made chorizo cooked by Chris himself. With his soon to be famous Fred Bacon’s riverside grown butter lettuce. We moved to Taverna’s own Sam Efron was creating pea purée sampling. The young lady from Dig Foods was cutting living herbs for their kimchi pizza. We also tried the black corn cake with a kale salad. You could also head outside (under tent) to a small yet well stocked farmer’s market. They had some of our favorites like down to earth farms, my grandmother’s pies and KYF farms, Glades ridge farms, and a few more from the old king’s street market. In all a great time and we walked or waddled away very full and we can’t wait till next year.