PHOTOS: Taste of White Center 2026!

(WSB/WCN photos by Torin Record-Sand)

Until 3 pm, a food festival/street party is under way in the heart of White Center – the fifth annual Taste of White Center. Booths on 16th SW are selling $5 tickets for special tastes/bites/sips at more than three dozen venues, as a benefit for the White Center Food Bank.

Note that rather than food booths on the street, you have to go into the venue to get your taste at most stops.

Participants stretch north into South Delridge, with seven north of Roxbury – Young’s, Meat the Live Butcher, Can Bar, Mi Casa Antigua Veracruzana, Nacho Mama, Mr B’s Mead Center, and Max’s Triangle Pub. The northernmost ticket booth is on 16th right by the street-closed signs.

Those in the heart of the WC party zone include two WSB sponsors, Big Mario’s Pizza and Wolfpack Cellars (above). What appeared to be the hottest ticket: The Tomo/Lil Woody burger collab.

2:15 PM: Adding more photos! Lumber Yard Bar also has a Queer Art Market until 5:30 pm:

Ever-popular Puffy Pandy is serving up “ice cream puffies”:

And it’s been music-filled too, including DJ sets:

And mariachi:

Southernmost stop today is Patrick’s CafĂ© and Bakery, offering scones and cookies. While ticket sales benefit WCFB, they also secured sponsorships to cover the costs of the participating venues.

4 Replies to "PHOTOS: Taste of White Center 2026!"

  • My Sherona June 20, 2026 (2:36 pm)

    It appears that the food bank ran out of tickets for the event approximately an hour ago. Everyone still has food.

    Kinda unbelievable that they didn’t purchase enough tickets for the event…..

    • WSB June 20, 2026 (2:39 pm)

      Hopefully they’ve figured out a stopgap way to handle that; we’re not on site any more so I can’t check.

    • My Sherona June 20, 2026 (4:01 pm)

      My bad, I guess they sold them all.

    • K June 20, 2026 (4:47 pm)

      There have been issues in years past where they sold unlimited tickets and everyone ran out of food before all the tickets were spent, leaving people feeling not great.  Hopefully this means they’ve coordinated with vendors to make sure there’s a better match between ticket and food quantities.

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