Morgan Junction Community Festival countdown continues: Food

Another day closer to the Morgan Junction Community Festival (presented by the Morgan Community Association, with co-sponsors including WSB), this Saturday in and around Morgan Junction Park, 10:30 am-6 pm. In this preview – the food you’ll find! From festival organizers:

Food Trucks

This year the returning Hungry Me and the newly launched Nibbles, as well as Sweet Bumpas Ice Cream, will be in the Washington Federal parking lot at the northeast corner of Fauntleroy and California from 11:00 to 6:00. Hungry Me offers Asian fusion dishes, such as their signature “Kao Man Gai” (poached chicken and rice) and vegetarian, gluten-free “Peanut Sauce Curry.” Nibbles specializes in Southwest fusion dishes. Their “Smoky Meatloaf Sandwich” and “Grandma GG’s Shortcake” menu items sound tempting. This month, Nibble has been in the West Seattle Eagles parking lot and at the Des Moines Farmers Market opening day. Sweet Bumpas Ice Cream, meantime, promises “boldly flavored ice cream and treats from our cart.”

West Seattle Thriftway special promotion for the Festival

Thriftway will be holding a fundraiser BBQ again for the festival! This is much appreciated and is essential to our fundraising. This year, they will be grilling burgers and the suggested donation of $7 will also get you a bag of chips and a drink. Best deal around!

Plus: Beveridge Place Pub will again have a hot dog cart in their parking lot.

Bite of Morgan

Last but not least is the Bite of Morgan sampling, which starts at participating venues at 11:30 and goes until supplies run out. Six of our fabulous food businesses will provide free small samples in exchange for tickets issued at the MoCA booth in the park. Participants this year are:

Caffé Ladro – Mini-scone and a cold beverage (don’t miss this, it’s worth the couple blocks’ walk south of park)
Peel and Press – Pizza rollup
Zeeks Pizza – Pizza slice
The Bridge – Chocolate-covered strawberry
Domino’s Pizza – Breadstick
Pet Elements – Dog treat

Previous previews:
*Kids’ activities
*Pet parade & contests
*Meet local authors

M June 17, 2015 (5:46 am)

Bite of Morgan seems like it has a fraction of the local businesses participating compared to last year

WSB June 17, 2015 (7:31 am)

M, no, not a fraction. Six compared to nine. https://westseattleblog.com/2014/06/morgan-junction-community-festival-next-saturday-food-lineup/

sam-c June 17, 2015 (8:05 am)

5 if you don’t have a dog ;)

WSB June 17, 2015 (8:19 am)

And last year was 8 if you don’t have a dog, then. It’s pretty amazing ANYONE does this, as that means providing hundreds of free samples, and restaurants operate on tight margins. Meantime, festival organizers have added a multitude of new non-food features including the author event and the “candidate corral” (District 1 City Council, your chance for one-on-one chats, preview to come). We’ll be in a different location this year, in the park, and looking forward to it! – TR

AIDM June 17, 2015 (1:40 pm)

Bite of Morgan was such a neat addition last year! Thanks to the local businesses who are doing it this year. Its a fun and novel change from normal festival activities.

WSB June 17, 2015 (1:50 pm)

The “Bite” has been a Morgan festival staple since 2009: https://westseattleblog.com/2009/06/festival-followup-morgan-junction-thanks-the-bite-participants – you might have missed it the year BEFORE last year, because 2013 was the infamous “downpour-shortened” festival year; this year’s looking pretty good: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/city_report.html
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And when you’re on the east side of California, remember the Thriftway benefit barbecue – they do it almost every Saturday during the summer, for various nonprofits (ALL proceeds donated!) but on festival day it’s a fundraiser to cover festival expenses – MoCA is a volunteer-run community council and no matter how simple you keep them, festivals cost $ to organize and present.

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