Chefs from more than a dozen Washington-area restaurants will take over a vacant lot near Audi Field on Oct. 26 to set up a mac and cheese festival for fans heading to the Nats vs. Astros World Series Game 4.
Baltimore-based events and marketing company The Trigger Agency has organized the . It will take place at 1880 2nd Street SW, a yet-undeveloped lot owned by developer Akridge.
There will be 30-plus craft beers, wines, ciders and spirits, as well as 20-plus kinds of mac and cheese, together with live music from local DJs. .
Indulging in all that gooey pasta and cheese and craft brews, though, won’t be easy on the wallet.
General admission tickets are good from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and cost $40. That gets you a souvenir glass, all-you-can-taste drinks and a la carte mac and cheese samples. Mac and cheese-only tickets are $25.
There is also a $70 VIP ticket. That gets guests in an hour earlier, at noon (and access to VIP toilets).
There is also a Chef’s Corner cooking stage with local chefs doing cooking demos each hour.
Among local restaurants and the mac and cheese they’ll be sampling:
- Coyote Grille (Roaming Coyote) with chorizo mac
- Red Hook Lobster Pound with regular mac and small clam chowder
- Mie & Me with mac and cheese with chicken
- Superior Eats by Stacey’s Soul Food with fried fish mac and fried chicken mac
- Sankofa Group with special mac and cheese
- Happy Family Ranch with bacon mac and steak mac
- Southern Peach with pepperoni mac, jerk mac, and chicken and broccoli mac
- Old Smokey BBQ with pork mac, sausage mac, chicken mac and brisket mac
- Jerk At Nite with “JaMacNCheese” (jerk mac and cheese)
- 8 Myles LLC with triple cheese mac with hot honey and chicken
- Southern Spice with “Mac N Chz”
- Neopol Savory Smokery with veggie mac and bacon mac
And Chef’s Corner chefs scheduled for the day:
- Noon — Marcelle Afram of Blue Jacket
- 1 p.m. — Joshua Murray of Conrad
- 2 p.m. — Peter Prime of Cane
- 3 p.m. — Johanna Hellrigl
- 4 p.m. — Adam Greenberg of Coconut Club
