Crave! – Food and Drink Celebration 2021 Starts Now

Crave! the Inland Northwest’s premier food and drink celebration is Friday, August 27, 2021, at Spokane Valley CenterPlace.

Over 600 enthusiast foodies are planning on attending a SOLD OUT Crave! on the new West Lawn at CenterPlace in Spokane Valley.

The City of Spokane Valley again sponsors the event.  “This will be our fourth year of partnering with Crave, and we are excited to watch this event continue to grow and bring new people to Spokane Valley,” said Mayor Ben Wick. “We have invested in improvements at CenterPlace to make it the best venue possible for premier events like Crave.”

Crave! is a celebration of Northwest culinary with chefs, tastemakers, restaurants, and producers from the region. It is normally a multi-day culinary food event but was cut back to one day for 2021.

The event will return to the full Thursday through Saturday schedule July 14-16, 2022!

The event Friday, August 27th is a walk-around tasting dinner with local chefs, tastemakers, wineries, distillers, breweries, mead, ciders, seltzers, and live music for a fun culinary experience!

For further details about Crave!’s participating chefs, vendors, exhibitors, sponsors, and travel information, please visit: http://cravenw.com/, or call (509) 621-0125.

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CHEF LINE UP

ANTHONY’S • RICK REICHELT AND RUSS SEAMAN

BABA • TREVOR STRATTON

COCHINITO TAQUERIA • TRAVIS DICKINSON

COSMIC COWBOY • CHRIS WHITE

DOUGHLICIOUS • PAUL SHIELDS

GILDED UNICORN • MARY WEAVER

HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB • RUDY VELASQUEZ

MAX AT MIRABEAU HOTEL • MICHAEL DURBIN

MONARCH RAMEN AND NOODLE HOUSE • VILJO BASSON

REPUBLIC KITCHEN AND TAPHOUSE • CODY CROUCH

THE SCOOP • JENNIFER DAVIS

SWEET FROSTINGS • NEVADA BURCH

TAVOLATA • ROGER HARPER AND SCOTT SIFF

US FOODS • ALEXA WILSON

WOODEN CITY • PAYTON JOHNSON

YARDS BRUNCHEON • COREY JACKSON

ZONA BLANCA • CHAD WHITE

WINE

Arbor Crest, Castaway Cellars, CDA Cellars, Latah Creek, and Terra Blanca

BEER

Brickwest Brewing, Hidden Mother Brewing - King, Hierophant Meadery, Icicle Brewing, Laughing Dog Brewery, Millwood Brewery, Mountain Lakes, No Li Brewery, River City Brewing, and Snoweater Brewing

CIDER & SELTZER

Summit Cider, Trailbreaker Cider, and Current Seltzer

SPIRITS

Dry Fly, Montgomery Distilling, Side Hustle Syrups, and Skiprock

 

About Crave! August 27 2021 at Spokane Valley CenterPlace West Lawn

 

Crave! is a celebration of the Inland Northwest chefs and tastemakers. Founded by Chef Adam Hegsted and produced by Spokane non-profit JAKT Foundation.

The vision of JAKT is to create, celebrate, enrich, and expand their sense of community through events.

The mission of JAKT is to be the catalyst to build collaborations for the betterment of the community.

The Core Values of JAKT are:

* Build Community * Collaborate * Highlight chefs * Partner of Spokane Valley * Catalysts for community alliances * Passion for food and cultural events * Inclusionary, everyone benefits * Culinary leadership locally, regionally & nationally

www.JAKTFoundation.org