If you’re lucky enough to spend a weekend sampling locally made cheese, wine, chocolate and coffee, you are lucky enough. 
As you’ve probably heard by now, I recently co-hosted Taste of Michigan here in my backyard of Grand Rapids with one of my fellow blogging friends, Rachel.
It was a whirlwind weekend of tasting, networking, drinking and laughing with fellow food bloggers who came from DC to Chicago and everywhere in between. Now that I’ve had good night’s rest and a strong cup of coffee, I am smiling from ear to ear as I look back through the photos. Please join me for a photo tour of Taste of Michigan:
Breakfast at the Silver Spork Food Truck located at the Fulton Street Farmer’s Market – out of this world!!
Delicious fresh roasted coffee from Rowster and local goodies from Art of the Table.
Samples from the very own Patricia of Patricia’s Chocolates
Next Stop: Bistro Bella Vita for Lunch plus KitchenAid Demo + Giveaways!
Posing with Claire before my KitchenAid Demo of my Great Aunt Vieve’s Hummus with Toasted Pine Nuts
What comes after lunch? Wine and cheese, of course. Next stop is Reserve Wine & Food for sparkling wine and chacuterie samples. Oh, and a tour from Peter, the handsome GM.
Can’t tell you how good it felt to finally meet Sheila, my long lost sista!
What comes after a day of eating? Another meal! Next up: Private Chef’s Tasting Menu and Drinks at Six.One.Six located in the JW Marriott.
Can you tell that Becca, Margaux and myself are ready for a glass of vino?
The lovely Rachel, Jamie and Sheila ready for dinner.
Attendees received giant bags of swag valued at over $500.00 in edible goodness including sparkling wine, vanilla, heirloom dried beans, hot sauce, coffee, chocolate, granola and even free food FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR at BD’s Mongolian BBQ!
Overall, the event was a complete success and, from my perspective, could not have gone any better if we tried. Thank you to all of you who attended! I look forward to seeing all of you again soon – perhaps at the Grand Rapids Wine & Food Festival next month!
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Great recap! So. Much. Fun.
Loved meeting you and cannot wait to see you again! xo
I feel the same way – thank you for all you did!! xoxo
Had lots of fun, thank you so much for all your hard work to make this possible!
Thank you so much for coming, Wendy!! So great to finally meet you!!
You two are awesome. Great recap of what I am sure was a great event!
Thanks for reading Cassie!! We had so much fun!
Great recap! So glad we met – now we just have to stay in touch:) you guys did an awesome job!
Thanks so much!! I am so glad you live nearby – I hope to see you again at a West Michigan Bloggers event!!
Yay! Great post, Liz. Definitely hope I get to see you again soon!
Thanks so much for coming Jamie!!! So nice to finally put a face with the name.
Had such a good time, thanks for having me!
So great to finally meet you Claire!!! Hope to run into you again soon.
Amazing time! Looks like you girls had a great time eating and eating and getting to know each other!
Thanks so much!!! We had a blast. Hope to meet YOU soon!!
Fun!! Congrats on a successful event! Looks like it was delicious & a good time for all
What a fabulous event! I’d love to do one of these in Iowa…even emailed back and forth with Rachel about it…but I would need more time to plan it! Such a great idea, I’m sure all the bloggers had a ton of fun!
That would be so awesome if you had one in Iowa!! It was a lot of work but worth it!!
This is a fantastic recap – everything was wonderful!! Thanks to you and Rachel for all of your hard work!
It was so great to meet you Becca!! Thanks so much for coming!!
This looks like so much fun! You ladies are all so pretty
Aww thank you so much friend!!!
Great Recap, I’m just smiling as I’m reminiscing about all the wonderful people I met and awesome food we ate. Thanks again, for all your hard work!
It was so fun to watch you all on IG and Twitter – what a great event!
I had no idea there were that many bloggers in Michigan. I’m headed up there for Thanksgiving to see my SIL… should have added a few more days to visit bloggers
SO fun! Where does your sister live? Have a great time in Michigan!!