Taste of Cincinnati

Taste of Cincinnati is the longest running culinary arts festival in the United States.

[1] Starting in 1979, the festival has been held annually on Memorial Day weekend in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.

[4] Approximately 500,000 people attend Taste of Cincinnati each year, making it one of the nation's largest street festivals.

[1] The idea of Taste of Cincinnati derived from Taste of the Big Apple News, which Karen Maier, then Frisch's vice president of marketing, came across in the Nation's Restaurant News, a publication that covers the American foodservice industry.

At this time, the festivities were also moved from Piatt Park to Central Parkway in Downtown Cincinnati.