Many Fest

Last night Jamie and I ventured downtown for an evening of fun at Winnipeg's Many Fest.  A weekend event put on to draw Winnipegers and visitors to our fair cities downtown area to enjoy a variety of events including food truck wars, a movie in the park, a farmers market, a dance and many more.

We were lured down to the event to check out the food truck wars where for a small price you could check out some sample sized nosh from a number of local food truck vendors. And as we walked up to the event in Memorial park we could see we were not the only ones in the city who had this idea.  Thousands of people packed the park last night for the food trucks, beer and wine tasting and the movie Up which was projected onto a giant blowup screen.

In theory the food truck wars is a great idea - we got to try some delicious and different food from 3 of the 12 vendors who were there.  However the waits were LONG!!!!  First you wait to get tickets for the samples, then you wait to order the samples and finally you wait to receive your samples. Some people waiting over an hour at one truck to try their tasty treats.  And it is nothing against the food truck workers, they were working their asses off, but there needs to be a better system to make the food more accessible to more people with less of a wait time.

However, for us we were in no rush and enjoyed our time together in the park taking in the sights of interesting people who came as we did to check it all out.  We even got to sit and watch part of Up as we ate our last bits of food and drank some Farmery beer.

So if you have some TIME today or tomorrow go and check it out, it is worth it I promise you!  Just don't make any plans to be elsewhere anytime soon.  Sit back, relax and enjoy the fun of Many Fest and try something yummy from some of the trucks if you can!!