{"id":25366,"date":"2018-08-23T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25366"},"modified":"2018-08-23T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:10:36","slug":"stuff-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/stuff-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Stuff Yourself at Weekend Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/whateag.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Labor Day Weekend offers diverse culinary experiences ranging from the Orange International Street Fair to Los Angeles Times Taste, you can prep the week before at numerous foodie events. \u00a0&#8220;Heat on the Street Taco Take Down&#8221; with chefs Aaron Sanchez, Robert Irvine, Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken, part of Los Angeles Food &amp; Wine Festival (pictured,) is a great starter.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/august-food.html\">What&#8217;s Cooking?<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BERKELEY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/berkeley-chocolate-chalk-art.html\">Chocolate &amp; Chalk Art<\/a> in the Gourmet Ghetto, Shattuck Ave.<\/li>\n<li>BODEGA BAY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bodega-seafood.html\">Bodega Seafood, Art and Wine Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>FORTUNA:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/beer-festivals-fortuna.html\">Hops in Humboldt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Fresno Greek Festival at St. George Greek Orthodox Church<\/li>\n<li>LAKEPORT:\u00a0Taste of Lake County<\/li>\n<li>LEMOORE:\u00a0Lions Brewfest<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-food-wine.html\">Los Angeles Food &amp; Wine Festival<\/a>: Power lunches, five days of culinary events and several Grand Tastings on Saturday (at Grand Ave. &amp; 1st Street) \u00a0and Sunday at (Barker Hangar) with the 25+ celebrity chefs. Actress Tiffani Thiessen co-hosts on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>NEWPORT BEACH: Bubbles &amp; Brunch to End MS | \u00a0Gourmet by the Bay, Newport Bay Conservancy celebration at the Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center<\/li>\n<li>PISMO BEACH: Taste of Pismo 2 Suds in the Sun at Dinosaur Caves Park<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: San Diego Spirits Festival is a Cocktail Extravaganza featuring Unlimited Cocktails and<br \/>\nBartender Battles. |\u00a0Rock Star Beer Festival<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Eat Drink SF Epic Food Festival includes 4 grand tasting events throughout the weekend serving dishes from nearly 100 renowned chefs. Meet and eat with the Bay Area&#8217;s best chefs, sommeliers, cicerones, and mixologists.<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: Italian Family Festa<\/li>\n<li>Santa Ana Zoo Zoofari<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara Zoo\u00a0 Tikifari Zoofari Ball<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ:\u00a0Tequila and Tacos<\/li>\n<li>THOUSAND OAKS:\u00a0805 Wine &amp; Brew Fest<\/li>\n<li>WATSONVILLE:\u00a0: Testicle Festival<\/li>\n<li>YUBA CITY:\u00a0Blues Brews and BBQs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Labor Day Weekend offers diverse culinary experiences ranging from the Orange International Street Fair to Los Angeles Times Taste, you can prep the week before at numerous foodie events. \u00a0&#8220;Heat on the Street Taco Take Down&#8221; with chefs Aaron Sanchez, Robert Irvine, Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken, part of Los Angeles Food &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25368,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25366\/revisions\/25368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}