Taste of Smyrna

The Taste of Smyna is an annual food festival that takes part in downtown Smyna located in between the Smyrna Public Library/​Smyrna Community Center/​Smyrna City Hall. When coming here I recommend parking in front of the First Baptist Smyna church. Parking is completely free.
This is our second year coming here, this year was better than last here. There was a huge turn out this year as viewers can see from the pictures, the weather turned out to be completely beautiful and there was such a great selection of food. The Taste of Smyna is a free event to visit and guests can walk along Village Green Circle and try out samples from over 30 restaurants, each sample ranges anywhere from 1 to 4 dollars. They had live music from the Scott Thompson Band this year.
For kids, they have plenty of activities, the Atlanta Braves had a tent setup for young kids to practice hitting a ball (3 times) and afterwards they could get their face painted by a local airbrush artist with different brave logos. They also had a great selection of blowup houses for kids to jump around, slides, rock climbing, bungee cord lift (goes about 20 feet) and they had this really cool thing where kids are put into a huge ball, it is filled with air and then they float around inside a pool like environment. Checkout the pictures so you know get a better idea.
What is also cool about this festival is that the festival sponsor gives out awards to one restaurant for four categories; this includes the best Entrée, Dessert, Decorated Booth and Food Presentation. There are also gift giveaways and free balloons for kids.
I am very impressed with the way Jrm Management Services puts on this event, they also run the tastes of Forsyth/​Kennesaw/​Acworth.
Even though this year was extremely crowded, there was still plenty of room to get around. This is definitely a food festival that is worth checking out and that is coming from someone who drove 50 miles one way to come to The Taste of Smyna. I highly recommend this festival.
[Review #207]