Taste of Cave Creek celebrates local food, music

MARC BUCKHOUT ~ MANAGING EDITOR~ 10/5/2011

The Taste of Cave Creek, a culinary event that also includes an art show and live music as a way of celebrating the town’s 25 years of incorporation and 140 years of western heritage is set for October 15 – 16 at Stagecoach Village.
The event, which will run from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. both days, will feature more than 20 Cave Creek area restaurants, along with Desert Foothills Film Festival showings, wine tastings,
a craft beer garden along with live country and rock music by Rondavous and Chicks with Picks.
The wine tasting will be hosted by  Total Wines and More at Desert Ridge and will feature wine from Italy, California and Washington. Chuck Noll, informally known as the “Beer Czar,” of Crescent Town, will host the beer garden. Overall the beer garden will feature more than 35 different beers from across the world including AZ  brews such as Grand Canyon.
Among the restaurants participating are Alberto’s, Bad Donkey, Bart’s Indian Village, Binkley’s, Bryan’s BBQ, Buffalo Chip Saloon, Café Bink, Cave Creek Coffee
Company and Wine Bar, Carefree Resort and Villas, Cave Creek Smoke House, Cartwright’s Sonoran Ranch Steakhouse, Dairy Queen, El Encanto, Electric Eel,
Firecreek, Harold’s Cave Creek Corral, The Hideaway, The Horny Toad, Janey’s Coffee House, Le Sans Souci, Saba’s and Tonto Bar and Grill. Food tastings run from $1 to $4 each.
Tickets for the event are $10 each day or a ticket for both days can be purchased for $15. Stagecoach Village is
located at 7100 E. Cave Creek Road in Cave Creek.