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Annual Taste of Syracuse Festival Helps to Promote Local Businesses Annual Taste of Syracuse Festival Helps to Promote Local Businesses

By Isabel Flores

Jordan Pierre: THE TASTE OF SYRACUSE HAS BROUGHT THE SYRACUSE COMMUNITY OUT TO CLINTON SQUARE TO ENJOY FOOD AND LOCAL GOODS FROM SYRACUSE BUSINESSES.
ISABEL FLORES TELLS US HOW THE FESTIVAL AIMS TO PROMOTE THE CITY, ISABEL…

Isabel Flores: Well,that’s true, and honestly, it’s such a hot day here in Syracuse. Perfect to get your grub on. Actually, I’m standing right here in front of a Dinosaur Barbecue. But there are so many other different businesses and shops promoting their goods out here today and I was able to talk to a few of them and get what their opinion is on Taste of Syracuse and how it affects Syracuse and the city as a whole.

Flores: Syracuse businesses of all kinds
are excited to promote their goods At this year’s Taste of Syracuse Festival.

Kevin Speciale: It’s just great. I mean, there’s a lot of people that come out that might not have the experience of coming to a Dinosaur, but it’s- this is more of a destination for them because they can try a lot of restaurants and and hopefully after 35 years, we can get the Dinosaur some new Dinosaur Barbecue flavors in their mouth, and they become regulars.

Flores: Kira Lioto, the manager of Luna Cat Cafe, wants to give back to the community as well.

Kira Lioto One thing we want to do, we definitely want to obviously advertise, get our food out there and give people more authentic Japanese food. We also want to advertise for the cafe in general because we have a bunch of rescue cats from CNY Cat Coalition. And the more we get out there, the more we can get them adopted. We have had 151 adoptions in less than two years, so we’re hoping to keep
getting that number higher.

Flores: The hot sun beating down here in Syracuse is also doing a good job of making sure residents come out here to get their hands on some refreshing food and drinks.

Speciale: Well, the whole place offers $2 samples.

John Pizzuto: I’m looking for the $2 samples, went to the bank and picked up some $2 bills.

Lina Pizzuto: Well, that’s the nice thing about it, is that we haven’t tried a lot of these restaurants. It’ll be nice to be able to taste things from all over Central New York that we haven’t tasted before, so, that’s the best part.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News)–  The Taste of Syracuse Festival began Friday at 11 a.m.

Vendors of all kinds came out to make sure to promote their businesses and unique local goods.

Some notable businesses and restaurants included Dinosaur Barbecue, Glazed and Confused Donut Shop and the Luna Cat Cafe.

One other vendor at the festival was Habiba Boru, the owner of Habiba’s Ethiopian Kitchen.

She welcomes individuals of all kinds to come visit her location in Syracuse’s Salt City Market, and says she hopes the festival will help her with gaining more customers.

“It helps promote the business and put the name out there, of course. Of course, since Covid, a lot of people have lost their business and things has not been the same. But hopefully, with people coming out and learning about Habiba’s, we’ll get more crowd and more business.”

The festival will end Saturday at 10 p.m.

 

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