Taste of the Nation Los Angeles Coming Soon: Here's Who's Cooking

Share Our Strength

Michael Voltaggio and Ludo Lefebvre at last year's event

Taste of the Nation, the annual chef-studded fundraiser supporting Share Our Strength's fight against childhood hunger, returns next weekend, hitting the stage June 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. at The Lot in West Hollywood.

The lineup for TOTN usually is one of the best of any food festival in town, uniting the city's power players with some of the top names in food and drink. This year doesn't disappoint -- in fact, it seems especially packed with new and exciting faces from the city's dining scene. Umamicatessen's Pigg, Cooks County, Blue Cow, ink.sack, Short Cake, Cliff's Edge, Night + Market and the Charleston are the newcomers joining a lineup of more than 40 participating restaurants.

The beer and wine will be flowing too, of course, with a selection of area wineries and a craft-beer tent featuring collaborations between places such as Beer Belly and the Bruery, Maximiliano and Craftsman, and Eagle Rock Brewery and the Surly Goat. Cocktails from La Descarga and the Varnish round out the boozy bill.

Tickets are $110 for general admission; $25 for kids; and $160 for VIP, which also includes access to private delicacies from Waylynn Lucas (fonuts) and Chris Cosentino (Umamicatassen's Pigg), as well as interactive games with prizes, live and silent auctions, and rotating DJ sets to entertain crowds when they're not loading up on food. See the full line-up of restaurants below and find tickets online.

Participating Restaurants:

Akasha
Areal
Black Market
BLD
Blue Cow Kitchen & Bar
Border Grill Restaurants and Truck
Campanile
Chaya Restaurant Group
Church & State
Cliff's Edge
Comme Ça
Cooks County
Culina
Farmshop
Fig Restaurant
fonuts (VIP only)
Haven Gastropub +Brewery
ink.sack
Joe's Restaurant/Bar Pintxo
Lazy Ox Canteen
Lexington Social House
Loteria! Grill
Lucques/AOC/Tavern
Lukshon
Michael's
Mo-Chica & Picca
Night + Market
Pazzo Gelato
Pigg (VIP only)
Public Kitchen & Bar
Ray's & Stark Bar
Sadie
Scoops/Scoops Westside
Short Cake
Simon LA
Susan Feniger's Street
The Charleston
Tres by Jose Andres
Umami Burger
Valerie Confections
Waterloo & City
Whist at Viceroy Santa Monica
Wilshire

Craft Beer Tent:

Eagle Rock Brewery + the Surly Goat
The Bruery + Beer Belly
El Segundo Brewing + Library Alehouse
Beachwood BBQ and Brewing
Brewery Ommegang + the Golden State
Craftsman Brewing Co. + Maximiliano
Stone Brewing Co.

Coffee:
Intelligentsia

Cocktails & Spirits:

St Germain + Infinium Spirits + *Appleton Rum + La Descarga
Miracle Mile Bitters + St. George Spirits + Harvard & Stone
Pernod Ricard USA + the Varnish

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