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Join Richmond Main Street Initiative & Experience a ‘Taste of Richmond’ !

3^rd Annual Festival celebrating the great restaurants, wineries & breweries of Richmond. Special shopping pass included!

WHEN: Saturday, May 18, 2-6pm

WHERE: Rigger’s Loft Wine Co. – 1325 Canal Blvd on the water in Richmond

WHAT:

Tastes & samples of delicious food & beverages from Richmond restaurants, caterers, wine and craft beer producers:
- Assemble Restaurant
- Carica Wines
- CJ’s BBQ & Fish
- Curbside Kitchen
- East Brother Beer Company
- Far West Cider
- GDC Kitchen Quiche & Carry
- Golden Gate Meat Company
- Kim’s Louisiana Fried Turkey
- Lemur International
- Marina Bay Bakery
- Nobilis Finer Diner
- Origin Brewer
- Plant to Plate (Anaviv Catering)
- R&B Cellars
- Roux
- San Francisco Pizza
- Up & Under Pub & Grill
You can also purchase larger portions of Taste of Richmond wares
Spectacular views of Richmond’s shoreline, San Francisco Bay and the City of San Francisco skyline
Live local Music – Jimi Z Band

COST:

$20 – Get you tickets now! TasteofRichmond2019.Eventbrite.com
Kids under 10 – free
Must be 21+ to sample wine & beer

Friends of Richmond Main Street Initiative: Get your FREE PASS to the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store! 10% of your purchase will be donated to Richmond Main Street.

May 19 – June 30, 2019: Visit the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store and show your invite (mobile or printed) at check-in and check-out, plus photo ID to shop and receive employee pricing on current season merchandise, for you and up to 4 guests per visit.

About The Richmond Main Street Initiative

The Richmond Main Street Initiative, Inc. is a community-based nonprofit corporation dedicated to revitalizing historic Downtown Richmond as a pedestrian-friendly urban village, offering products, services, arts, and entertainment that reflect the community’s rich and diverse heritage. Visit richmondmainstreet.org for more information.

About the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store

Columbia, the flagship brand of Portland, Oregon-based Columbia Sportswear Company, has been creating innovative apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment for outdoor enthusiasts since 1938. Columbia has become a leading global brand by channeling the company’s passion for the outdoors and innovative spirit into technologies and performance products that keep people warm, dry, cool and protected year-round. To learn more, please visit the company’s website at www.columbia.com.

Where’s our Public Bar? At Public Market Emeryville!

Settling into the bar stools at the Public Bar by Blush to talk with assistant manager Tyler Evans, we learned that this is the third bar for owner Taylor Kim. The others are in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter and in San Jose’s San Pedro Square Market in downtown San Jose, offering creative East meets West cuisine with creative cocktails in a spirited bar scene.

Experiencing the growth in the Emeryville neighborhood near where Taylor lives and learning about the need for a local bar, the Public Bar in Emeryville evolved. Emeryville residents, he learned, did not always want to have to take Uber to get to where they were going. They thought it would be fun to be able to walk to their local bar, grab a drink and not have to pay to go home.

So here we are. At the Public Bar with three 55″ flat screen TVs for sports and news, 16 Bourbons, 15 Tequilas, Specialty Blush Cocktails, Wine and 99 Beers for here or to go. And they have some small bites at the beautiful long bar, adding a comfortable lounge to the Public Market in Emeryville.

“We’ve only been open six weeks,” says Tyler, “but every week we have set a new record!”

What’s a Blush Cocktail? Built on the base of a craft cocktail, ‘Blushies’ are layered drinks topped with a float of their exclusive house-made, frosted fruit ice, resulting in something more than the average chilled drink.

Happy Hour is 3-6pm and 9pm – closing daily. Blush Cocktails are $6 and The Basics are $5

About the Blush history

Two best friends, Russ Fukushima and Taylor Kim, who grew up in Hawaii together had a mutual passion for great food and drinks which inspired them to start Blush. Moonlighting as a bartender in Seattle, Taylor developed the recipe for the concept’s signature Blush cocktail in 2009. By the fall of 2011, Taylor and Russ opened their first restaurant Blush Raw Bar + Lounge in the newly developed San Pedro Square Market in downtown San Jose and started serving up the Blushies. By 2014, they had found an ideal spot in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter for their second bar and unveiled the second restaurant, renamed Blush Ice Bar, in the summer of 2015. The Public Bar at Public Market Emeryville is part of their plans to continue the adventure and serve up Blushies in markets across the U.S.