Past Event
Saturday, November 11, 2017, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Escondido Tamale Festival
321 North Broadway, Escondido, 92025
Cost: Free
The tamale festival is back (more tamale vendors than ever for 2017) with traditional, gourmet, and vegan tamale vendors offering Oaxacan, banana-wrapped, dulce, lobster, and smoked-BBQ varieties. Plus a best-tamale contest, chihuahua costume contest, amateur salsa-dance contest, craft beer & wine garden, vendors with handmade holiday décor, and mariachis, folklorico, Latin dance, and cultural youth performances on the Grande Stage.
Produced by the Escondido Downtown Business Association for the preservation of the 128-year-old historic downtown district. Veterans Day Ceremony at the “Wall of Courage” at 10 a.m.