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To your forks, because the official Taste of Cincinnati the menu came out.

Restaurant and food truck vendors have provided their lists of menu items (and prizes for each) that will be available to try out during the festival.

Taste of Cincinnati will be held on four blocks of Fifth Street May 28-30. The festival is free and menu items will range from around $4 to $8. See the prize breakdown below.

Here’s what’s on the menu at Taste of Cincinnati this year.

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Restaurants

Buon Cibo d’Alfio

  • Spinach and cheese empanada (vegetarian): $5
  • Korean barbecue pork empanada: $5
  • Veal chop ravioli with creamy truffle marsala sauce: $7
  • Chocolate-caramel tiramisu: $5

BBQ High Life

  • Pulled pork: $8
  • Chest: $8
  • Chicken salad sandwich: $8
  • Coleslaw: $4
  • Chicken salad: $4

Bebo’s Burgers + Frappes

  • Latin chicken empanada: $5
  • Bebo’s Drunk Beef Slider or Lettuce Wrap: $6
  • Peruvian-Latin hot dog: $5
  • Chicken or pork pincho kebab: $6
  • Very leches knocked: $5

Best mix

  • Pre-made acai bowl (vegan): $2
  • Customizable acai bowl (gluten-free): $5

Che

  • Ground beef empanada: $4
  • Chicken verde empanada salad: $4
  • Spinach empanada (vegetarian): $4

Chicago Gyros

  • Gyro: $8
  • Pita falafel (vegetarian): $8
  • Gyro hot dog: $3
  • Baklava: $3

Gourmet China

  • Cold sesame noodles (vegetarian): $6
  • BBQ shrimp (gluten-free): $7
  • Edamame: $5
  • Cornish hen with five spices: $8

Chino street food

  • Yangon Crab: $5
  • Vietnamese street taco: $6
  • Skewer: $7

Home Kitchen

  • Kimchi rice cake (vegan): $8
  • January: $8
  • Five-spice tofu; $6
  • Snow-white sesame balls: $6
  • Miso soup: $4

Eddie’s Southern Style BBQ and Deli

  • Pulled pork sandwich: $7
  • Grilled corn on the cob: $4
  • BBQ Pork Ribs: $8
  • Chicken fillets and fries: $7
  • Beef brisket sandwich: $8

The Vaquero

  • Guacamole: $3
  • Queso dip: $3
  • Quezadilla (cheese, beef or chicken): $6
  • Street taco (steak, chicken or pastor): $3

Gee’s Caribbean Style

  • Jerk chicken pasta: $5
  • Oxtail with rice and peas: $8
  • Jerk chicken, steamed cabbage, greens: $8
  • Plate of vegetables (vegetarian): $5
  • Jerk salmon salad: $8

Council Oak Steak and Seafood / YouYu Pan Asian Street Food

  • Bulgogi fries: $5
  • Waygu meatballs: $8

Herbal Vegans

  • Seafood croquette with sauce (vegan): $7
  • Greens (vegan): $5
  • Gumbolaya (vegan): $7
  • Jerk chicken salad with tortillas (vegan): $7
  • Buffalo macaroni (vegan): $7

from Izzy

  • Famous Rueben: $7
  • Corned-beef-n-Swiss: $7
  • Pastrami on pretzel bread: $7
  • Potato pancake: $5
  • Rice pudding: $4
Ruben cake and potatoes from Izzy's

Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint

  • Burger: $5
  • Cheeseburger: $6
  • Classic valet: $7

Just Q’in BBQ

  • Beef brisket macaroni: $7
  • Pork macaroni: $5
  • Chest: $8
  • Pork: $6

Kabobske

  • Gyro wraps: $7
  • Walking gyros: $6
  • Chicken skewers: $6
  • Baklava drizzled with chocolate: $5
  • Hummus and pita: $5

Keystone Bar & Grill

  • Mac and cheese with BBQ chicken and bacon: $7
  • Mac and cheese: $5

LaRosa’s Pizza

  • Additional slice of cheese pizza (vegetarian): $3
  • Double pepperoni slice: $3
  • Three pepperoni rondos: $4

latin house

  • Cuban sandwich: $5
  • Black beans on white rice: $4
  • Beef empanada: $4

Mazunte

  • Chicken, pork or vegetable tostadas: $7
  • Chicken or pork tamales: $5
  • Chips and guacamole: $6

Mecklenburg Gardens

  • Pretzel stick: $3
  • Zinzinnati Sausage Sampler: $6
  • Currywurst: $6
  • German sausage on pretzel bread: $6
  • Cream puffs: $5

MCKS

  • Pork belly sandwich: $8
  • Pork tacos: $5
  • Ooiee Gooiee Butter Cookie: $3
  • Chicken Tacos: $5
Pompilio risotto balls were voted Best of Taste in 2017.

Restaurant Pompilio

  • Spinach and artichoke risotto meatballs: $6
  • Organic tomato mozzarella caprese (vegetarian): $6
  • Bolognese rigatoni: $8
  • Chocolate Peanut Butter Cannoli: $5

Creamery Roll On In/Buzzed Bull

  • Non-buzzed ice cream: $3
  • Rangoon Crab: $4
  • Sushi-nachos: $6
  • Cali burrito: $8

Sawasdee Thai Food

  • Tod Mun: $6
  • Gyoza: $5
  • Basil pork with boiled egg: $8
  • Milk caramel jelly: $4

Sweets & BBQ Meats

  • Smoked pulled pork or pulled chicken slider: $5
  • Homemade macaroni and cheese (vegetarian): $5
  • Smoked short ribs (gluten-free): $8
  • BBQ at 4: $8
  • BBQ grill and 1 side dish: $8

Thai Express

  • E-San Thai Sausage: $5
  • Papaya salad, sticky rice with/not fried (vegetarian): $8
  • Chicken Massamam curry or tofu (vegetarian): $8
  • Pork with green curry or tofu (vegetarian): $8

Dairy

The cookie shop

  • Cincy cookie for three: $3
  • Trio of 2 cheesecakes: $4

the crucible

  • Teriyaki sirloin and Cajun chicken: $8
  • Teriyaki sirloin: $8
  • Cajun chicken: $8
  • Strawberries and milk chocolate pound cake: $6
  • Milk chocolate strawberries: $6

Surfer salmon

  • Salmon croquettes: $8
  • Salmon queso dip: $5

Tickety-Boo Treats

  • Lemon Wild Blueberry Cheesecake (vegan): $5
  • Hot Chocolate Mexican Cheesecake (Gluten Free): $5
  • Cinnamon Churro Cheesecake (vegan): $5
  • Key lime cheesecake (gluten free): $5

tickle pickle

  • Pearl jam: $6
  • Rolls and roses: $6
  • Killer: $6
  • Fleet of Goetta Vans: $6

Tom + Che

  • Chicken and Bacon Ranch Fondant: $6
  • BBQ + bacon fondue: $5
  • Fondant Tom + Chee: $5
  • Grilled cheese donut: $4
  • Gazpacho (vegan): $3

wing champion

  • Wings: $8
  • Fries: $2
  • Catfish: $6
Selected food trucks lined up at Longworth Hall to have their food judged ahead of Taste of Cincinnati.  The judges collected samples from the trucks to showcase during the Taste of Cincinnati weekend, which runs May 28-30.

food trucks

Adena beef

  • Garlic beef and cheese: $8
  • Mom’s Meatball Sub: $7
  • Chicago Dog: $5
  • Ride: $4
  • Semper fries: $5

Best of Buffalo

  • Roast beef on the sea: 5$
  • Chicken wings: $6
  • Sahlen hot dog: $4

Cups and cones

  • Ice cream sundae or cone with garnish: $5
  • Cup of ice cream: $7
  • Strawberry Shortcake: $8
  • Brownie Explosion: $8
  • Birthday cake: $8

Hawaiian dinner

  • Fried Musubi: $6
  • Shoyu pork taco: $7
  • Fried ice cream: $5

El Chevito

  • Chicken Tacos: $4
  • Steak Tacos: $4
  • Mixed Vegetable Taco (vegetarian): $4
  • Pupusa Revuelta: $4

Empanadas Aqui

  • Hairy Arepa (gluten-free): $8
  • Empanada Bad girl (gluten-free): $5
  • Tequenos (vegetarian): $5

Home Coffee & Catering

  • French Toast Cannoli (vegetarian): $5
  • Truffle mac and cheese (vegetarian): $7
  • Chicken carnitas with grilled peaches: $4
  • Cincinnati Poutine: $6
  • Fig and Bacon Flatbread: $8

Mac from MamaBear

  • Loaded Baked Potato Macaroni: $6
  • Vermont cheddar macaroni (vegetarian): $5
  • Vermont Overloaded Grilled Cheese: $6
  • Grilled cheese bruschetta: $7
  • Mexican street corn (vegetarian): $4
  • Cajun andouille and macaroni and cheese with shrimp: $8
Fay Solomon of Mount Healthy digs into a Belgian waffle from Marty's Waffles food truck.

Marty’s waffles

  • Marty’s Belgian sugar waffle with powdered sugar and whipped cream: $5
  • Marty’s Belgian sugar waffle with fresh strawberries and whipped cream: $6
  • Marty’s Belgian Sugar Waffle with Sea Salt and Caramel and Fresh Maker’s Mark Bourbon Whipped Cream: $7

Off hook

  • Cold nibbler: $8
  • Whiting nibbler: $7
  • Fries: $5
  • Shrimp fritters: $2

Frankly

  • Pumba: $8
  • Kraut: $7
  • Melted pig: $5
  • Grandma Brie: $6

Red sesame

  • K-taco: $8
  • Quesadilla K: $8

Sea food

  • Asian tacos with egg roll (vegetarian): $8
  • Black Pepper Shrimp: $6
  • Cha Cha Fries: $8
  • Egg rolls: $6
  • Coconut cream donuts: $6

street pops

  • Streetpop lemon blueberry cream (gluten-free): $4
  • Streetpop Thai basil lime (vegan): $4
  • Raspberry lemonade streetpop (vegan): $4
  • Pineapple Passion Fruit Streetpop (vegan): $4
  • Strawberry and Rose Streetpop (gluten-free) $4

SugarSnap!

  • Salted caramel brownie: $4
  • Assortment of cupcakes: $4
  • 1/4 pound cookie: $4
  • Frozen cheesecake on a stick: $6
  • Make it a sundae: $6

Sweet Jazz Treats Bakery

  • Cupcakes: $6
  • Strawberry shortcake jars: $8
  • Banana Pudding Jars: $8
  • Cake pops: $4
  • Cookie sandwiches: $4

Texas Joe Tex Mex

  • 12 Hour Braised Breast Taco: $6
  • Chipotle chicken or picadillo taco (gluten-free): $5
  • Vegan/vegetarian with taco nopales (vegan): $5
  • 3 amigo salad bowl (breast, chicken, picodillo): $8
  • Elotes (corn in a cup, gluten-free): $5

Wicked story

  • Dirty South Shot (gluten-free): $4
  • Mary’s taco: $7
  • Smoked meat nachos (gluten-free): $8
  • Bread pudding drizzled: $6
  • Vegan smoked sausage skewer (vegan): $4

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