A party is only as good as its food, and a festival is just a giant party — so it bears out that how you eat at Treefort has a massive impact on your experience. You can avoid being waylaid by an unexpected hunger spike with a little pre-planning, and if you want to turn the festival into a personal culinary celebration, that’s fully within reach.
🥘 Foodfort Events
If you want to fork over a little extra dough, Foodfort is throwing a few dinners throughout Treefort. A cocktail demo at KIN is already sold out and tickets for the other meals may run out soon, too.
The team at Amano is preparing a five-course dinner at the Basque Center on Wednesday evening. Tickets are $165 and include specialty Mezcal, wine, and a Veladora glass to take home.
To learn more about Amano’s award-winning cuisine, check out our episode featuring chef Salvador Alamilla.
On Thursday, over a dozen of Boise’s best chefs will plate a small dish or two at Zoo Boise. Tickets are $55.
The folks behind the soon-to-open White Rabbit will be serving “Spaghetti O’s,” Basquenese has bánh mì from, Ansot’s is dishing up txistorra, and those are just a few of the dishes that’ll be available.
Copper and Heat is a James Beard Award-winning podcast about food and restaurant culture, and they’re exploring our humble town in a live recording on Friday at noon at the Boise Centre East, room 420B.
🚚 Food Trucks & Reliable Bites Nearby
A surprising number of events and shows are available for free without a Treefort pass. That includes shows at the Gene Harris Bandshell in Julia Davis Park, which will be surrounded by a halo of food trucks.
Every food truck, restaurant, and bar is going to be a little busy but that’s part of the fun. Be nice to your servers, because they’re also just people running at 100% capacity. You’ll find few allies in being rude to wait staff among the Treefort crowds, so go with the flow or face the mantis.
💡 A suggestion for the indecisive: Make a list of three or four places you want to eat in the area at some point in the festival. That way you can fit them into your mental schedule, and you don’t have to come up with something on the spot while you’re hungry, and maybe a little cold, and maybe a little drunk.
