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The 2014 Taste of Georgetown is coming, and we need your help!

It’s finally here! The Taste of Georgetown befitting Georgetown Ministry Center returns September 13 from noon to 5 PM with a new location and better than ever! This year we are excited to host the event on K Street, near the Georgetown Waterfront. We also have  over 10 more restaurants than last year and fun for all ages– outdoor bocce ball, children’s activities, a lively music stage, and a bigger, better beer and wine pavilion. With all that is new and exciting we need your help more than ever and hope you’ll join us as a volunteer!

Jobs include help with activities, info booth, ticket booth, food runner for judges and more! Discounted parking will be available to you. We are looking for both morning early and late afternoon volunteers. The time slots available are:

8:30 AM to 11:30 AM (limited need)
11:00 AM to 2:30 PM
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Volunteers will receive free parking (based on lot availability) and complimentary pack of tasting tickets. Please email events@georgetowndc.com with you preferred time frame and/or flexibility and we will contact you with a specific job and details for getting around day of! Check out our new website here for more fun details and we hope to see you at the Taste!

Help the homeless while sampling great dishes at this year’s Taste of Georgetown on June 2, 2012!

Georgetown Ministry Center will be kicking off this year’s Help the Homeless campaign with Taste tickets and a VIP lounge for those who register. Escape the heat and the crowds during the Taste when you register to participate in Help the Homeless and receive the following perks:

• VIP Lounge: enjoy your tastes in Georgetown Ministry Center with access to seating, refreshments, restrooms, air conditioning, and WiFi

• 3 Taste Tickets: every registrant will receive 3 Taste tickets, a $15 value!

• Skip the ticket line! We’ll be selling tickets at the regular prices, too.

• a Help the Homeless t-shirt

• the great feeling of doing good and helping those less fortunate in your community

Come kick back in our center with GMC staff and friends. All you need to do is register yourself and as many as you can from your party on the Help the Homeless website. Pick up your Taste tickets on June 2 starting at 10:30 am in Georgetown Ministry Center (map and directions). Early birds will beat the crowds and be first in line for the tastes they want!

If you can’t make it to the Taste, you can still register and be a virtual participant. We will be live tweeting the event (twitter.com/gmcgt), so you can still feel like you’re there!

Thank you to everyone who showed up for the Taste of Georgetown last Saturday. We are so happy that it was a huge success and that the weather was so wonderful. Here is some of the coverage of the event:

The GW Hatchet’s article about the event

Georgetown Patch’s photo slideshow

Georgetown Dish: articles and pictures

… for Taste of Georgetown! Come sample Georgetown’s restaurants on Saturday, October 15 from 11am – 4pm. All proceeds benefit Georgetown Ministry Center. Over thirty Georgetown restaurants will be participating and will be accompanied by the jazz talent from Blues Alley.

Tickets for the Taste will be available for purchase at the event at the ticket booth located in the Eagle Bank (1044 Wisconsin Avenue) parking lot, but you can also get them in advance online here.

WANT TO VOLUNTEER?

We need volunteers to help make Taste of Georgetown run smoothly! If you’re interested, please email office@gracedc.org.

On October 14th, crowds gathered in Georgetown for the 17th annual Taste of Georgetown, a Fall food festival featuring sample dishes prepared by 30 of the area’s top restaurants, paired with wine tastings on the lawn of Grace Church, and topped off with live music from local talents. Wisconsin Avenue was closed to traffic between M and K, and lines of tents were set up along both sides of the road. Sponsored by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, the event benefits Georgetown Ministry Center.

What started as a few boiling pots of local fare on the lawn of Grace Church has become one of the area’s most anticipated events. The weather was warm and sunny, and people were ready to eat and drink; the turn-out was massive. This year was a great success.

Every year the cuisine is more diverse and the dishes increasingly creative. Some of the winners of this year’s contest include: chorizo corn-dog with shrimp slaw by J. Paul’s, beef brisket ravioli with dolcetto wine and crimini mushroom sauce by Filomena Ristorante, and fire-grilled sweet chili wings with cool cucumber mint sauce by Fahrenheit.

Manned by over 70 volunteers, the Taste of Georgetown is a great event that brings together the community and offers local restaurants and musicians a chance to show off their talent. A day of fun and food, all in support of GMC’s work to help the homeless in Georgetown.

For more information visit: www.tasteofgeorgetown.com.

And to view photos from the event visit the Taste Flickr page.