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Taste of Syracuse Returns to the City The Taste of Syracuse Returns to the City

By Charles Marshall

JACKSON ROBERTS: Charlie Marshall is live on the scene to explain how the festival’s return is a welcome sight for local vendors. Charlie?

CHARLIE MARSHALL: Thanks so much Jackson and Logan. And as you can see there’s just people all over the place at this festival. It’s the first time it’s been here in the past two years and that’s welcome news to one local vendor I spoke to this morning.

MARSHALL: Visitors at the taste of Syracuse can pick from a collection of local food stylings, including Eva’s Polish Restaurant or Kiki’s. But while it’s a pleasure for the visitors, the return of the Taste of Syracuse is a little more special for one vendor.

ERNESTO SINCHICO: I’m very happy now because all of the festivals I miss for two years, now I am happier to be back at the festival.

MARSHALL: Ernesto Sinchico owns Inti’s Path. He’s been pitching his tent at the Taste of Syracuse for ten straight years. He is one of over 80 vendors at the Taste of Syracuse this year. Sinchico lives in Syracuse but he was born in Ecuador. And he visits events like these all over the country. And the reason he keeps coming back to the Taste of Syracuse? The people.

SINCHICO: They give me the opportunity, the festival peoples. It’s nice people, I enjoy coming any time, you know? I appreciate the people of the Taste of Syracuse.

MARSHALL: It’s not just local businesses that are getting into the action today at the Taste of Syracuse, but it’s also some bigger chains. Dunkin’ Donuts is giving out free donuts to the first 1000 customers to visit their tent at the Taste of Syracuse today.

CHRISTINA DEHM: We’re really excited to be back at the Taste of Syracuse after two years. It’s great to be back in the community, especially on National Donut Day. We’re celebrating that with free donuts, which is exciting and a great way to get people out on their lunch break and celebrating in the community.

MARSHALL: And so the Taste of Syracuse will continue through today into tonight and then it will wrap up tomorrow night. Now, on top of all of the food vendors that they have here at the Taste of Syracuse, they also have three different stages with different entertainment options, as well as a kids zone. Reporting live in Syracuse, I’m Charlie Marshall, NCC News.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — The Taste of Syracuse returned to the city for the first time since 2019 today. The event started at 11 a.m. and will continue until Saturday night.

The event features local food vendors, live music and even offers a dedicated “kid zone.”

Ernesto Sinchico is a local vendor at the Taste of Syracuse. He said he was happy to see the festival return after an extended absence.

“I’m very happy because of all of the festival[s] I missed for two years,” Sinchico said. “I am [happy] here to be back in the festival.”

It’s not just the Taste of Syracuse, but all festivals that Sinchico is happy to see return. While he’s a Syracuse resident, his business stays on the road — travelling to festivals where he can pitch his tent and sell his merchandise.

“That’s part of my job, I travel from festival to festival,” Sinchico said.

“No more COVID, I want to continue doing business,” Sinchico said. “I’m happy about that.”

Dunkin’ Donuts was one of a few non-local food vendors featured at the Taste of Syracuse. The coffee and donuts chain came prepared for national donut day — offering free donuts to the first 1,000 visitors at their tent on Friday.

“We’re really excited to be back at the Taste of Syracuse after two years,” Christina Dehm, a Dunkin’ spokesperson said. “It’s great to be back in the community, especially on National Donut Day. We’re celebrating that with free donuts, which is exciting and a great way to get people out on their lunch break and celebrating in the community.”

The Taste of Syracuse is free to the public and is located downtown at Clinton Square.

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