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It’s Big Easy time, Bay Area.
That means California’s Great America is hosting its fourth annual Taste of Orleans event, which runs Saturdays and Sundays through July at the Santa Clara theme park.
The event includes a special menu including such yummy Bayou favorites as chicken and sausage gumbo over rice, crawfish fritters with Creole dipping sauce, fried oyster po’ boys and crawfish boil.
And don’t forget the sweets, which include praline bread pudding, beignets and something called a “shrimp and crab cheesecake.” (We’ll probably stick with the bread pudding and beignets, actually.)
Tasting cards are $30, with a discount for season pass holders.
Drink-tasting cards, $35 each, allow guests 21 and over to sample such New Orleans brews as Abita Beer’s Big Easy IPA, Turbo Dog brown ale and Purple Haze wheat beer, among others. Overall, there will be 20 beers and 10 wines featured.
There will also be music performers, various other entertainers, children’s activities and a nightly fireworks show.
“For the past three years, our guests have enjoyed celebrating Orleans-style food and fun, which is why we’re so excited to bring this event back again in 2019,” said California’s Great America vice president and general manager Manny Gonzalez.
For more information, visit www.cagreatamerica.com.
