Plenty of very standard tacos that sell for more than $5USD in American cities.
It reminds me of when Grumman 78 just started out and were selling things like lamb vindaloo tacos and banh mi tacos. Why would I want to pay a premium for a tiny taco that looks full to the brim when I can get so much more food at a banh mi store.
Best food I ever have at restaurants is made by old grandma's. That said, I've had some good hipster stuff too, but often the hipster stuff is said to be better than it actually is.
Exactly this. The experience of waiting in line only to pay to get in to pay too much to get measurably below-average food. And of course because you saw it on social, you also post, and the cycle continues.
The bar is so low in this city anyway but people are more than glad to pay inordinately more for cold, not-good food. Imagine what people who actually care about good food could get done with that influx of money.
> Exactly this. The experience of waiting in line only to pay to get in to pay too much to get measurably below-average food. And of course because you saw it on social, you also post, and the cycle continues.
La Toxica St Hubert in one sentence
idk, I like how you can get a full kilo of al pastor and you just have to assemble the tacos yourself. That seems like a good deal to me.
That's usually what I order from La Toxica.
Whenever tourists and foreigners brag about how cultural it is to eat food you bought from a cart off of the side of the road in a developing country where regulations are lax enough for lots of people to make a living this way, what they really mean to say was that they love how cheap everything is.
Jack up their costs of living, make them pay income taxes in the countries they are staying and they'll all fuck off out of Latin America and South East Asia.
I agree that what is proposed at those "Fest" is overpriced. But your argument "should never be expensive" doesn't really make sense, it's not because elsewhere it's sold cheaper that it should always be cheaper everywhere. Yes the ingredient cost might factors in, but most of the price comes from labour, infrastructure, etc.
Oh I know. I worked in food for 10 years. Labour cost on tacos is also cheap. Materials is also cheap. Even if you buy a press to make shells from scratch.
The cost here is all markup because it's a festival.
Oops. As far as I know it's still on and will have it's first edition next friday https://www.mtl.org/en/experience/first-fridays-are-back-olympic-park-summer
Je vous recommande pas de manger dans les food festivals, surtout les food truck au poutinefest a vieux port. Je vous jure que j’ai travaillé dans leur cuisine de production c’est fucked up. Trop trop salle, il faisait chaud et les frigo pue, plus les mouches qui traînent partout 🤢🤢🤢
Payer plus cher pour t'intoxiquer, je comprends pas comment de tels festivaux continuent d'exister d'années en année sans qu'ils se fassent fermer pour insalubrité.
Le meilleur festival de bouffe: Inviter ses amis dans sa cour pour un BBQ pot-luck!
Cliss que c'est bon et y'a tous le temps trop de stock! Rapport qualité/prix/plaisir incomparable.
All the food kiosks sold out before 5pm and it took more than two hours to order anything. I’m never going back to Yatai or any of their other food festivals
3 mini tacos pour 19$ plus 20$ pour rentrer 😂😂 Attendre 40 min en ligne… Gracias, pero no.
D’habitude si ça s’appelle “Festival de” c’est le début d’une arnaque.
all of these "food festivals" are tourist traps
i chuckle whenever a contact on my socials puts themselves as "attending", they are invariably new in mtl (mostly french or ROC people)
Any food festival that you have to pay to get in is a scam. Real fairly priced vendors don't want an admission fee acting as a deterrent to customer traffic.
I feel every food fest is the same. I've been to several and each one had long lines and high prices. Maybe instead of these food festivals, we can just enable a vibrant street food scene? Something better than those food trucks (do they even exist anymore?)
I mostly go on off peak hours, later or just when they open, or weekends in the mid afternoon between lunch and dinner rushes. Never waited in a line there, although I've gone by and seen them.
Never go to a food festival with an entrance fee, it’s kinda f***** up that you have to pay to line up to pay again for food.
The only exception to the rule is Beer Fest
Mexican here. If anyone would like to try actually good tacos, go to La Capital in China Town or La Chilanga Taqueria in the village. It’s cheaper, tastier, more affordable and you get to listen to Mexican music with a Corona beer on the side.
Oh yes! I remember my Taco Fest experience and I swore never ever again!
Expensive tacos, overpriced drinks and the worst it was getting in line for 45-60 minutes just to get mediocre food. In addition, the last day was a mud pit because it rained the night before and they were not ready for that. Big NOPE
I HATE all these food night market festivals that have gotten popular the last few years. You wait in line to pay to get in to buy overpriced food at stalls. Most of which are run by existing restaurants already selling the foods. That they make you pay to get in is insulting.
The ENTIRE point of street food stalls was for smaller more local people to sell food cheaper. Just like food trucks are a scam here.
I went last year!It was horrendous. Waited in line to pay $10 in tokens for food. It was also very hot. Couldn’t even get water without the stupid token.
My family still picks on my wife because she bought tickets to Montreal taco fest in advance for us and tried to sell it for the first 25 minutes as we waited to get in. Then waited for tokens. Then waited for food. Then waited for drinks. Then we just drank our $20 vodkas in the sweltering heat. It took 3 hours to just get a taco and a drink and I was down $400 w ticket cost (family of 5).
I would rather just sit at nice gastropub and play pool and stay at hotel ffs
Yeah I don’t know which asshole is in charge of organizing that or Poutine fest but they’re running on greed.
A food gathering like that is an opportunity for food trucks or businesses to acquire new customers for their actual restaurant or a new customer base that seeks out their truck. They should be going above and beyond to make this a good experience instead people feel scammed before it even starts and end up overpaying for mediocre food/portions. Such a wasted opportunity
having lived in a few different cities throughout NA and EU, it was super jarring finding out how bad of a handle this city has on festivals in general. we have some spaces for them, but they're all run down and when we do have festivals in those places, zero effort is made brighten up the spaces. avoid the japanese cultural festival by the locks as well, same issues!
so many wasted cultural opportunities ;-;
edit: I'd like to add that if you're craving festival vibes, check out the walking streets, especially when events are happening. at least those are done well. schedules and walking street locations are available online :)
Je me suis tellement gavé en tacos et birias au Mexique cet hiver (j'y suis resté un mois et demi) que je vais passer mon tour certain! J'avais aussi entendu des mauvais commentaires. Parait qu'ils sont très bons, mais assez dispendieux.
Comment aller dépenser 50$ pour diner quand je pouvais avoir le meme nombre de tacos pour 5 piasses. Pis ils étaient tellement fucking bons. J'en rêve encore.
Just make your own carnitas tacos. Meat is super simple to make and fresh corn tortillas take another hour to prepare. Carnitas also freeze really well. No more $10/taco disappointment
Always a DIY guy when talking about food.
Easy, just raise chicken in your backyard, cut their throat, remove their feathers, cut the bones, grow lettuce, buy compost, plant carrots….. Jesus man.
I would say avoid all food related fest. All of them are over price small portion and some of them even have entry fee.
I don't know about all the beer fest cause last time I visited that was about 12 years ago. I remember one in Montreal, I think it was at Bonaventure. The entry fee covered something like 20 tickets and beer could range from 1 to 3 tickets. You'd get a decent amount to taste. I remember buying lots of glass at these events.
Tacos are so easy to make, just buy 50$ of ingredients and you can feed a whole family
Since i make my own tacos im disappointed with restaurants for the food quality and specially the prices
Bruh last year they advertised Argentinian sunday at the old port for food and there was only one place selling two Argentinian street foods lmao. These food festivals here SUCK.
also, I’m guessing at least most aren’t vegan (which aren’t expensive to make), which would justify the high prices if they went to the victims? it’s how these things go sadly…
I don’t even mind paying an entrance fee if the festival itself is excellent. Paying a little to cover for security and event costs seems fair.
But taco fest was a complete rip off. I had wet tacos for the first time in my life at last years TF. You know what tastes good? Not a fucking wet taco. No one cooked the food long enough for anything to be hot, crispy or crunchy: all elements of a proper taco.
I would rather save the 70$, spend an afternoon walking through St Henri and enjoying one of the many great taco places down there.
Sans comparer les coûts ridicules. Il y a aussi plusieurs truck qui ne font normalement pas de taco et en on inventé pour l'événement ou "ont tout vendus" et vendent ce qu'ils offrent normalement.
S'il y aurait une liste de trappe à touristes de Montréal, cet événement serait dans le top 10.
The basic low-down is that everything that ends with -fest (tacofest, poutinefest, ribfest) is all run by the same company and it is wholly, completely a for-profit thing.
**Well duh, Shuri, I mean, that's what business is all about, lmfao**
Yeah, I get it. **But**. Generally the vibe of a festival is to bring visibility. Oh, this restaurant exists. Oh, this microbrewery is up in my neck of the woods, I didn't know they were here. But the fests don't have an ulterior motive. *The fest itself* ***is*** *the endgame.* The entire shtick is to squeeze as much money from everyone right away. Prices can and will be as high as possible, full stop.
Just went today and it was real good. 5$ for a beer and tried 2 different racks of ribs. No entry fee. Might even go back sunday to try the last 2 stalls.
Same could be said about First Fridays, but I think it’s worse because it’s free, I went once as early as possible, I wasn’t aware that during a freaking pandemic you needed to bring cash, so after spending spent most of the time on lineups and finding out I couldn’t use a credit card, I left and never ate, went to a nice restaurant and called it a day
I went last year and actually enjoyed it. Where else can you get the chance to try all of those local spots in one location… for what an entrance fee of $15? As opposed to the fee of driving to each place? No brainer if you think about it.
The prices were based on tickets and there was a standard almost all tacos were 4 tickets I think, which if I remember still comes out to $5-$7/taco which is responsible in todays economy.
The lineups are expected, I still managed to eat a good $40 worth of tacos and goodies and walk around for 2hrs ish. The lineups depend on the marketing, I found all of them fair but La Toxica which had a massive line, and yet well deserved since I found them fantastic.
https://preview.redd.it/tdyq5uacjt3d1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96eb4a4d8b16df4671ce18353761362cd67d3263
Hey come on, stop saying anything positive, this is Montreal subreddit! You have to be blasé about everything and hate anything that isn't perfect or cost more than 10$
And you expect what exactly from a food festival? Performance from Shakira?
ETA: a shitty, temporary food court is the exact definition of a food festival in my mind
Used to live in Arizona briefly. Lots of good Mexican food. Tacos should basically never be expensive. Unless you're doing like wagyu, which is dumb.
Wait you don't eat your taco with truffle, caviar and gold flake?!?!
I mean, I would, but I'd be sad about what I paid for it.
Plenty of very standard tacos that sell for more than $5USD in American cities. It reminds me of when Grumman 78 just started out and were selling things like lamb vindaloo tacos and banh mi tacos. Why would I want to pay a premium for a tiny taco that looks full to the brim when I can get so much more food at a banh mi store.
Hipsters ruined everything
Best food I ever have at restaurants is made by old grandma's. That said, I've had some good hipster stuff too, but often the hipster stuff is said to be better than it actually is.
Yes, but here in Montreal you pay for the experience, not the food...
Exactly this. The experience of waiting in line only to pay to get in to pay too much to get measurably below-average food. And of course because you saw it on social, you also post, and the cycle continues. The bar is so low in this city anyway but people are more than glad to pay inordinately more for cold, not-good food. Imagine what people who actually care about good food could get done with that influx of money.
> Exactly this. The experience of waiting in line only to pay to get in to pay too much to get measurably below-average food. And of course because you saw it on social, you also post, and the cycle continues. La Toxica St Hubert in one sentence
idk, I like how you can get a full kilo of al pastor and you just have to assemble the tacos yourself. That seems like a good deal to me. That's usually what I order from La Toxica.
Montreal as we knew it is dead.
Whenever tourists and foreigners brag about how cultural it is to eat food you bought from a cart off of the side of the road in a developing country where regulations are lax enough for lots of people to make a living this way, what they really mean to say was that they love how cheap everything is. Jack up their costs of living, make them pay income taxes in the countries they are staying and they'll all fuck off out of Latin America and South East Asia.
No. We wanna enjoy our superior purchasing power
I agree that what is proposed at those "Fest" is overpriced. But your argument "should never be expensive" doesn't really make sense, it's not because elsewhere it's sold cheaper that it should always be cheaper everywhere. Yes the ingredient cost might factors in, but most of the price comes from labour, infrastructure, etc.
Oh I know. I worked in food for 10 years. Labour cost on tacos is also cheap. Materials is also cheap. Even if you buy a press to make shells from scratch. The cost here is all markup because it's a festival.
I reckon all these "food festivals" are shit.
Went last year in Laval 2 drinks 2 poutines and it was close to 85$ somehow. They can pound sand
The first fridays at the Olympic stadiums can be fun! https://www.mtl.org/en/what-to-do/festivals-and-events/first-fridays-montreal-street-food
That is still a thing? Sweet
Is it still going on ? That link is from 2022
I went last summer and it was a thing! Crowded for sure but fun and good food.
Oops. As far as I know it's still on and will have it's first edition next friday https://www.mtl.org/en/experience/first-fridays-are-back-olympic-park-summer
Awesome, thanks ! I don't think I've been there since the pandemic
My friends said the same about the Poutine one. I mean, it was OK, but why sorta thing.
I went to the poutine one once. Yeah, pretty underwhelming and expensive. Long lines for anything decent, not enough seating. Would not go again.
This is what I heard also.
Did the poutine fest have a cost of entry?
My recollection is that it did.
yeah, better than that, poutine week (February?) not in the same place, but you can go for the ones that catch your attention
I went to that one about 8 years ago, and it was pretty sad.
Agree, I always feel let down when I go, even when entry is free
Most festivals are complete shit now. They're all overpriced garbage, why the fuck am I paying more than the restaurant?
I have a huge deep pit of hate for them in me. Pay to get in to overpay for mediocre food
I have fond memories of rib fest. Dont think it was too overpriced and lines werent crazy. Probs abojt 10 years ago tho.
Pre-covid Ribfest was so sick
Totally. Touristy money grab shit
Oyster fest=not shit.
But one bad oyster = lots of shit...
If you can’t smell a bad oyster, that shit’s on you.
Je vous recommande pas de manger dans les food festivals, surtout les food truck au poutinefest a vieux port. Je vous jure que j’ai travaillé dans leur cuisine de production c’est fucked up. Trop trop salle, il faisait chaud et les frigo pue, plus les mouches qui traînent partout 🤢🤢🤢
Payer plus cher pour t'intoxiquer, je comprends pas comment de tels festivaux continuent d'exister d'années en année sans qu'ils se fassent fermer pour insalubrité.
Pas le temps, sont partis avans que l'inspecteur arrive
M'a y aller pour pouvoir caller off à job les 3 jours qui suivent
Le meilleur festival de bouffe: Inviter ses amis dans sa cour pour un BBQ pot-luck! Cliss que c'est bon et y'a tous le temps trop de stock! Rapport qualité/prix/plaisir incomparable.
Je veux des amis pour faire un BBQ potluck. On y va?
As soon as there is an entry fee, I'm out.
Same, line up? Forget it... Coat check? Get outta here! Entry fee? Fackoff
(Actually, you never got in. … … … … Scuse 😂)
Same shit with the japan weeks.
All the food kiosks sold out before 5pm and it took more than two hours to order anything. I’m never going back to Yatai or any of their other food festivals
Dang, was looking forward to trying that this year.
3 mini tacos pour 19$ plus 20$ pour rentrer 😂😂 Attendre 40 min en ligne… Gracias, pero no. D’habitude si ça s’appelle “Festival de” c’est le début d’une arnaque.
En plus c’était tacos les plus mid que j’ai goûtés, je peux faire mieux avec de l’assaisonnement Old el Paso 🥴
Pas de ligne si personne ne peut payer pour l’entrée 🧠
all of these "food festivals" are tourist traps i chuckle whenever a contact on my socials puts themselves as "attending", they are invariably new in mtl (mostly french or ROC people)
The “grabbing as much money as I can & as soon as possible” mentality will eventually destroy all food festivals in western countries.
I once happen to pass through a candy festival at the old Port. Was free to pass through. It did seem to primarily be recent immigrants
Old port is tourist land
Yeah, they're all scams.
Any food festival that you have to pay to get in is a scam. Real fairly priced vendors don't want an admission fee acting as a deterrent to customer traffic.
I feel every food fest is the same. I've been to several and each one had long lines and high prices. Maybe instead of these food festivals, we can just enable a vibrant street food scene? Something better than those food trucks (do they even exist anymore?)
like the poutine festival
I live a block from Chez Claudette, I have no need for a poutine festival
Please don't go to Chez-Claudette. I don't want more people in line in front of me.
I mostly go on off peak hours, later or just when they open, or weekends in the mid afternoon between lunch and dinner rushes. Never waited in a line there, although I've gone by and seen them.
Ah because of your message I understand Chez-Claudette us good and will go there too
is being in mtl not enough of a poutine festival? i love it but i don’t know why you’d go to a place and pay more
However the one in Drummondville is worth it, not too expensive, good poutine and decent concerts
Maple festival on wellington a few months back was great, too.
I went to one of those food festivals once. It was so overcrowded there was no air. Outside. Never again.
Went last year, totally agree, thank you!
Never go to a food festival with an entrance fee, it’s kinda f***** up that you have to pay to line up to pay again for food. The only exception to the rule is Beer Fest
I second this. It was such a ridiculous ripoff AND there was a crazy lineup
The only thing you get from these fests is indigestion, a lighter wallet and germs.
Si je me souviens bien, c'était 15$ par personne pour rentrer l'an dernier. Un gros scam.
C'est qui qui organise ces festivals?? Les Hells ou la Mafia italienne?
Mexican here. If anyone would like to try actually good tacos, go to La Capital in China Town or La Chilanga Taqueria in the village. It’s cheaper, tastier, more affordable and you get to listen to Mexican music with a Corona beer on the side.
noted, tyvm.
Capital taco is high quality.
Do not go to festivals where you need to pay to enter, and the participants are also from Montreal! It’s for low IQ people, so please don’t go. :)
Yeah, I went once to this and poutine fest. Not worth it AT ALL and super fucking expensive for mediocre food.
Poutine and Rib fest are also scams. Pay $20 for $5 worth of food that isn't even that good
All those fests are a rip off.. Poutine est, rib fest, etc...
This confirms what I thought 👍
Oh yes! I remember my Taco Fest experience and I swore never ever again! Expensive tacos, overpriced drinks and the worst it was getting in line for 45-60 minutes just to get mediocre food. In addition, the last day was a mud pit because it rained the night before and they were not ready for that. Big NOPE
I HATE all these food night market festivals that have gotten popular the last few years. You wait in line to pay to get in to buy overpriced food at stalls. Most of which are run by existing restaurants already selling the foods. That they make you pay to get in is insulting. The ENTIRE point of street food stalls was for smaller more local people to sell food cheaper. Just like food trucks are a scam here.
Canadian taco scene is horrible, always such a rip-off
I went last year!It was horrendous. Waited in line to pay $10 in tokens for food. It was also very hot. Couldn’t even get water without the stupid token. My family still picks on my wife because she bought tickets to Montreal taco fest in advance for us and tried to sell it for the first 25 minutes as we waited to get in. Then waited for tokens. Then waited for food. Then waited for drinks. Then we just drank our $20 vodkas in the sweltering heat. It took 3 hours to just get a taco and a drink and I was down $400 w ticket cost (family of 5). I would rather just sit at nice gastropub and play pool and stay at hotel ffs
Yeah I don’t know which asshole is in charge of organizing that or Poutine fest but they’re running on greed. A food gathering like that is an opportunity for food trucks or businesses to acquire new customers for their actual restaurant or a new customer base that seeks out their truck. They should be going above and beyond to make this a good experience instead people feel scammed before it even starts and end up overpaying for mediocre food/portions. Such a wasted opportunity
having lived in a few different cities throughout NA and EU, it was super jarring finding out how bad of a handle this city has on festivals in general. we have some spaces for them, but they're all run down and when we do have festivals in those places, zero effort is made brighten up the spaces. avoid the japanese cultural festival by the locks as well, same issues! so many wasted cultural opportunities ;-; edit: I'd like to add that if you're craving festival vibes, check out the walking streets, especially when events are happening. at least those are done well. schedules and walking street locations are available online :)
i agree with you. there are too many festivals in the city - it should be more about quality over quantity.
Je me suis tellement gavé en tacos et birias au Mexique cet hiver (j'y suis resté un mois et demi) que je vais passer mon tour certain! J'avais aussi entendu des mauvais commentaires. Parait qu'ils sont très bons, mais assez dispendieux. Comment aller dépenser 50$ pour diner quand je pouvais avoir le meme nombre de tacos pour 5 piasses. Pis ils étaient tellement fucking bons. J'en rêve encore.
Traditional Mexican food is meant to be cheap, they have made it a luxury! Its insane
I still remember attending poutine fest and they made you buy a fork…. (Money went to “charity” but come on).
WTF?
Just make your own carnitas tacos. Meat is super simple to make and fresh corn tortillas take another hour to prepare. Carnitas also freeze really well. No more $10/taco disappointment
Always a DIY guy when talking about food. Easy, just raise chicken in your backyard, cut their throat, remove their feathers, cut the bones, grow lettuce, buy compost, plant carrots….. Jesus man.
well homie if you can’t throw a hunk of meat in the pot and then serve it on some tortillas, you are the perfect customer for these BS festivals
I second this. Absolutely not worth it, each taco is like 4-6$ plus entrance fees.
I would say avoid all food related fest. All of them are over price small portion and some of them even have entry fee. I don't know about all the beer fest cause last time I visited that was about 12 years ago. I remember one in Montreal, I think it was at Bonaventure. The entry fee covered something like 20 tickets and beer could range from 1 to 3 tickets. You'd get a decent amount to taste. I remember buying lots of glass at these events.
Tacos are so easy to make, just buy 50$ of ingredients and you can feed a whole family Since i make my own tacos im disappointed with restaurants for the food quality and specially the prices
Bruh last year they advertised Argentinian sunday at the old port for food and there was only one place selling two Argentinian street foods lmao. These food festivals here SUCK.
All fests, even the music ones, are shit. Corporate greed in plain sight for a captive audience.
The asian ones also suck, maybe except the Ste-Catherine one
who organized it?
Yeah we went last year. Wasn’t worth it in the end
I’m yet to find a good taco place in this city
Same with beer festival
bring a 1$ the tacos truck and youll be rich
La Cantina downtown has amazing tacos
also, I’m guessing at least most aren’t vegan (which aren’t expensive to make), which would justify the high prices if they went to the victims? it’s how these things go sadly…
You will be sued for defaming a legitimate business.
I don’t even mind paying an entrance fee if the festival itself is excellent. Paying a little to cover for security and event costs seems fair. But taco fest was a complete rip off. I had wet tacos for the first time in my life at last years TF. You know what tastes good? Not a fucking wet taco. No one cooked the food long enough for anything to be hot, crispy or crunchy: all elements of a proper taco. I would rather save the 70$, spend an afternoon walking through St Henri and enjoying one of the many great taco places down there.
Just go to Asi Es Mexico on Saint Hubert...only tacos you need
Sans comparer les coûts ridicules. Il y a aussi plusieurs truck qui ne font normalement pas de taco et en on inventé pour l'événement ou "ont tout vendus" et vendent ce qu'ils offrent normalement. S'il y aurait une liste de trappe à touristes de Montréal, cet événement serait dans le top 10.
comme les poutine fest
Le festival de bouffe de rue asiatique, me rappelle plus du nom officiel. Les prix devraient rendre les gens furieux.
*(... never forget.)* */s* ^(je me souviens)
Merci, corrigé.
I only eat homemade hairy tacos
The basic low-down is that everything that ends with -fest (tacofest, poutinefest, ribfest) is all run by the same company and it is wholly, completely a for-profit thing. **Well duh, Shuri, I mean, that's what business is all about, lmfao** Yeah, I get it. **But**. Generally the vibe of a festival is to bring visibility. Oh, this restaurant exists. Oh, this microbrewery is up in my neck of the woods, I didn't know they were here. But the fests don't have an ulterior motive. *The fest itself* ***is*** *the endgame.* The entire shtick is to squeeze as much money from everyone right away. Prices can and will be as high as possible, full stop.
Ribfest this weekend in Greenfield park.
Just went today and it was real good. 5$ for a beer and tried 2 different racks of ribs. No entry fee. Might even go back sunday to try the last 2 stalls.
Same for the beer festivals
Come on, it’s not that bad. It’s a bit pricey yes, but it’s a change of ambience from a regular sit-in restaurant.
Found the guy who works there
Same could be said about First Fridays, but I think it’s worse because it’s free, I went once as early as possible, I wasn’t aware that during a freaking pandemic you needed to bring cash, so after spending spent most of the time on lineups and finding out I couldn’t use a credit card, I left and never ate, went to a nice restaurant and called it a day
I went last year and actually enjoyed it. Where else can you get the chance to try all of those local spots in one location… for what an entrance fee of $15? As opposed to the fee of driving to each place? No brainer if you think about it. The prices were based on tickets and there was a standard almost all tacos were 4 tickets I think, which if I remember still comes out to $5-$7/taco which is responsible in todays economy. The lineups are expected, I still managed to eat a good $40 worth of tacos and goodies and walk around for 2hrs ish. The lineups depend on the marketing, I found all of them fair but La Toxica which had a massive line, and yet well deserved since I found them fantastic. https://preview.redd.it/tdyq5uacjt3d1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96eb4a4d8b16df4671ce18353761362cd67d3263
Hey come on, stop saying anything positive, this is Montreal subreddit! You have to be blasé about everything and hate anything that isn't perfect or cost more than 10$
Breaking news: you have to pay to get into festivals and festivals are expensive. Ok? Lol
Not a festival, it's a shitty, temporary food court
And you expect what exactly from a food festival? Performance from Shakira? ETA: a shitty, temporary food court is the exact definition of a food festival in my mind
Do you want to pay $20 to have the privilege to buy a $20 taco?