*TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOW SOLD OUT!!*
Our popular annual celebration, “A Taste of Columbus” returns on Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 6-9pm at The Kee in Downtown Columbus and you’re invited!
Welcoming 600 attendees and hosted by the Columbus Young Professionals Club, this epic event will feature up to 50 food & drink stations offering complimentary sample bites & tasting pours from local restaurants, bakeries, dessert shops, coffee/tea shops, breweries, and distilleries, along with live music, local art, interactive activities, and our “A Toast to Wonderful Workplaces” awards program, all set against the posh backdrop of The Kee Columbus (a 30,000 sq. ft. venue in the heart of the Warehouse District).
Tickets: Early-bird tickets are available for $10 for the first 100 tix sold, and then $15 per person. (Tickets are FREE for Premium members and Friends of the Club). If you wait until March 1st, ticket prices will increase to $20.
Your ticket includes complimentary sample bites, sips, and pours from all participating vendors (see below), an event tasting passport, access to networking with hundreds of attendees, free interactive activities (including The Kee’s arcade + virtual golfing + giant chess/checkers + Jenga & more, Dave & Busters Polaris, Otherworld Ohio, and a selfie photobooth), three bars (full drinks/cocktails will be available for purchase!), live music, art gallery, door prizes, and plenty of fun! *Note: This event is 21+ only!
Who’s confirmed to participate at “A Taste & A Toast” (as of March 1st*)?
80 Acres Farms (Feelin' Gouda Salad Spring Mix lettuce, topped with walnuts, gouda cheese, dried cherries, and dried apples)
Accent Wine Parlor (wine)
Agave & Rye (Birria Tacos with corn tortillas (GF), Corn Tortilla Chips, House Made Guacamole, Queso and Salsa)
Brekkie Shack (breakfast sandwiches and housemade pastries)
BrewDog (beer and non-alcoholic beverages)
BrootLegg Extracts (cold brew coffee, Nitro cold brew, Infused cold brew)
Brothers Drake Meadery (Blackjack mead - a heavy fruit forward blackberry and black currant honeywine, Bourbon Barrel Apple Pie mead - Ohio honey and apples with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove)
Buncha Munchies Bakery (croissant knots, cake, cookies, blondies, focaccia, including vegan and gluten-free options)
Chansweets (sweet potato cupcakes - yellow and chocolate)
Chilljoy (Hawaiian-style shave ice and cce cream)
Chocolate Cafe (Buckeyes & other seasonal treats)
Clean Eatz (Buffalo chicken mac and cheese, Arnold bowl, Monterey chicken, protein buckeyes)
Cotton Sugar Co. (mini cotton candy puffs)
Ditch the Mix (fudge brownies in an assortment of flavor, brownie truffles, chocolate chip cookies)
Echo Spirits Distilling Co. (samples of Bourbon, Genever, Rye, Rum, Pineapple Rum, Spiced Rum and Vodka)
Edison Brewing Co. (beer)
Eiffel Street Food (authentic French tacos)
Eliza’s Cookies and Treats (cookies)
Flavor 91 Bistro (grass-fed burgers & vegan food)
For the Love of Dough (gourmet cookies & treats)
Fruits & Roots (hot coffee and tea)
Greater Columbus Convention Center Catering (homemade Buckeyes)
Holy Taco (tacos, pork belly tacos, Horchata water)
Hofbräuhaus Columbus (mini cream puffs)
Hot Chicken Takeover (mini versions of our famous Banana Pudding)
Lion Cub's Cookies (Cub size cookies - half the size of their traditional cookies - including chocolate chip, cookies n' cream, & chocolate peanut butter, plus buttercream frosting to dip cookies)
Litt Kombucha (four different flavors of Kombucha: Ginger Lemon, Citra Hops, Lemon Lavender-CBD, and Blueberry Lavender)
munchmallow (jumbo cereal treats served on a stick)
Noble Cut Distillery (Peach Smash cocktail, Limoncello, flavored whiskey, vodka)
North High Brewing Co. (Buffalo chicken sliders, beer samples, mini pies, mac and cheese)
Ohio Brewing Co. (IPA, Witbier and Altbier)
Peace Love and Little Donuts (assorted flavors of little donuts)
Peak Cocktails (non-alcoholic, flavored cocktails)
Pitabilities (mini rice bowls, pita chips, pasta salad)
Posh Teatime Co. (cream scones, hot tea samples incl. Farmers Market / Banana Split / Earl Grey Lavender)
The Refectory (scallop pomponettes, orange chocolate truffle tarts)
Roadster (cheese rolls)
Sauce Boss Gang (Spicy Strawberry Salsa, Spicy Margarita)
The Scratch House (BBQ Beef Meatballs, Chicken Rotel Pasta)
Speakeasy Bakery (Black Russian Mini Cupcakes)
Species X Beer Project (Lunar Base blonde ale and/or Isl4ndberry sour ale)
Taesty’s (Southern style chicken wings, pulled pork, mac and cheese)
Taylor Made (cupcakes, cookies)
The Original Goodie Shop (pastries, cookies, candies)
Watershed Distillery (bourbon, gins, vodka, and other spirits)
Yats Grandview (Cajun Creole, New Orleans cuisine)
YumVillage (Afro-Caribbean meals and juices)
Zephie’s Cakes and Desserts (cakes & desserts)
*Food & drink vendors are subject to change. If you have any questions about this event, please contact us.