Everything is ready for the grand finale of the “Reggio Calabria Street Food Fest”the event of the taste organized by Even, in partnership with the Metropolitan City and the Municipality of Reggio Calabria. The event that, from Thursday, has been registering a great success, with record numbers, will end today with the proclamation of the best street footers and a series of special prizes.
Thousands of people from all over Calabria and from Sicily crowded the Italian Falcomatà promenade, transformed into a lively festival of taste. The event celebrates the best street food, offering unique aggregation opportunities and conviviality.
“In an era marked by globalization – underlined the metropolitan mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà – Food and wine, even the fast road one, is increasingly synonymous with quality, identity, identity marker and territorial promotion. I am proud of how the city, also on this occasion, has been found ready for a great event, capable of combining gastronomy, culture and entertainment, through the most authentic exaltation of perfumes, flavors and colors typical of the beauty of our land and of the whole South. An edition with a tested formula that we aim to re -propose even in the next few years, because, we believe that the enhancement of our specialties and artisan creativity and creativity gastronomic, represent a fundamental tool for development for the whole territory, in particular on the tourist level “.
“Our city invaded by quality ‘flavors'” – says the deputy mayor Carmelo Versace; An event to be framed, which recalled public from all over the metropolitan territory, and not only, which had the opportunity, thanks to street food, to admire the beauties of our city and, of course, savor the dishes prepared on the spot. Traditional and innovative foods in a frame of cultural and musical entertainment that has been able to enhance the workers who have joined, reiterating, if there was a need, that the entrepreneurs and traders of the gastronomy of the South are craftsmen of excellence and quality “.
“The bridge of taste is now really reality, he commented Alberto Palellasingle administrator of eventively. People appreciated our format and success went beyond expectations. We have shown that the strait can represent an element of union between the two sides, if opportunities for exchange and sharing are created with a view to tourist enhancement and economic growth “.
Show Cooking – protagonists, in the show cooking area tonight, at 7pm, the chef Giuseppe Geraci of the Torregrotta (Messina) restaurant restaurant with the ice cream maker Gabriele FiumaraItalian ice cream champion and captain of the national team “European Cup 2025” ice cream. At 8pm the starry Nino Rossia Michelin star of the Qafiz S. Cristina restaurant in Aspromonte e Antonello Fragomeni of the Fragomena Pasticceria Bar of Reggio Calabria.
The Food Village will remain open, continuous hours, from 11 to 24.
Shows:
6pm – 21 Joculares, “Tramplier musicians”
19:30 – DJ set with Enzo Romeo
9 pm – on stage the live music of the Italian brigands
11pm – Best Street Fooder Best Award ceremony
23:30 – DJ set with Enzo Romeo.