Bloody Mary Fest

This event was pretty cool , it helped that i won the tickets through yelp and it was free! The bloodies were really good and they had a lot of different ones , I wish more restaurants from the area would of participated bc it is a nice way to learn about other restaurants you may have not been to in the city . So yelp had a Bloody Mary event and so I'm comparing these 2 , I feel like the yelp event beat the festival , the festival said that there was going to be food , but it wasn't what I would reallyCall food , they had a company with their gormet cheeses and another booth with jellies with cream cheese and some nut assortment , also Lollies chocolates which was more to sell their chocolates . And another dip/chicken salad place. But it was more just a sample . Which would of been fine if they would of not advertised the food , so we went for 12 so not knowing the food situation we didn't eat before , and so basically after 3 drinks in we were smashed . The yelp event had dragos oysters and other surrounding restaurants wit bloody Mary's and food ! Like jambalaya and shrimp and grits and things such as that , I think that would of been more suitable food for a bloody festival, or even someone selling food I kno the bar was open to buy food on the other side but it was a timeLimit and we wantedto stay into the bloody tasting . But overall I likedThis event

I really wasn't impressed by this event. As a local, who adores bloody mary's and goes out of her way to find the coolest ones, I figured this might be the best place to find some new ones in the city. Alas, I left very disappointed. The staff and the organizers tried really hard and I appreciate the effort, but when you don't advertise the fact there will be different bloody Mary's on different days (Saturday & Sunday), and all the cool ones they posted on their Instagram that you got to try, happened to only be made on that Saturday and we went Sunday. Plus, the event was less centered on traditional bloody mary's and more on creativity (which, when you're expecting a traditional bloody Mary, is a major letdown). They had a bloody Maria (with ghost tequila) from DTB which was excellent, bit again, different. Sucre brought this like sweet watermelon tomato sparkling farthest-thing-from-a-Bloody-Mary I have ever seen, which my husband detested (he definitely wasn't expecting bubbly-sweet, and doesn't like sweet drinks). There was a green tomatillo bloody Mary, and a tomato WATER, again, not a bloody Mary. The parts I did enjoy were the classic ones like one from Oceana (which ended up winning our day, clearly the people were looking for traditional bloody's), and I loved the cheese and praline samples, but overall, this festival seemed less like an appreciation of the glory that is a bloody Mary, and more like a money making scheme (tickets are like $40-60). Glad I went once, but definitely do not plan on going back again; I'll stick to finding true Bloody Mary's on my own

This was the worst festival I have ever been to. I'm 63 and I have been to lots of festivals. $45 a ticket for a tasting of bloody Mary's from local merchants some of which have no business making bloody Marys. I didn't see any reference to charity or worth while cause so I assume we just paid for local merchants to get free advertising. The music was not really entertaining and there was no food to speak of. It was an expensive way to catch a buzz if you could drink enough samples to do so. The contest seemed to be "who can make the spiciest/hottest Bloody Mary. In some cases you couldn't even taste the tomato juice at all. This was not a festival at all. It was a waste of money and time. If a worthy charity benefited from the money we spent I would feel better but I won't be going again.