Comments on: 2012 Decatur Book Festival Open Thread

By: brianc

brianc — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:24:42 +0000

About the junk food vs. restaurants: I had an easy time grabbing lunch at Brick Store (upstairs bar, a bit before noon) on Saturday. Granted, I had an hour before my next event. On Sunday, I had no problem getting a sandwich to go at Java Monkey.
Also had my first dinner at Colbeh on Saturday night. Food was good, service was great, and the place wasn’t too crowded or noisy.

This year was one of my best food experiences at the festival, partly because I didn’t go near anything on a stick–except for a tasty lamb skewer at Colbeh!

By: SteveC

SteveC — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:32:30 +0000

By: Arriba

Arriba — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:54:36 +0000

I took the kids up to DBF expecting to have some festival food, but couldn’t stomach feeding the kids sausages or fried everything, especially since we were going to a cookout after our time at the festival.
I didn’t see any option besides going to a restaurant – which may be by design. But with little ones in tow, and not wanting to miss our first scheduled event, I was scared away from any restaurants on the square. I decided we needed to have a salad option, so ended up walking to Taco Mac. They had enough servers, but it was still crazy.
If we had more healthy options, I would have preferred to stay in the festival area to eat.
My daughter did discover her new favorite King of Pops flavor – plum and ginger. Not my cuppa tea, but she’s dreaming of them now.

By: smalltowngal

smalltowngal — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:06:21 +0000

Boxed or to-go specials from Decatur estblshmts would be great. My own perspective: I usually volunteer, which involves being on my feet for 3-5 hours in some capacity. Want to enjoy the festival before and/or after, don’t really want to “waste” time sitting around in a restaurant — I can do that any time. But fried and super-sugary food makes me feel awful on the go, especially in hot weather. At Inman Park Fest this year, grabbed a big cup of veggie stir-fry, not perfect but much better than french fries/kettle corn/funnel cake kind of fare. Would love doner-kabobs, some kind of veggie wraps. My dream is for the fest to get the folks at Las Brasas to run chicken boxes to a kiosk somewhere on the square…. I’m not veggie, actually prefer a little animal protein w/ every meal, but willing to give up protein to avoid deep -fried sugar in this environment

By: Parker Cross

Parker Cross — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:52:08 +0000

Give me more detail on what food you would like to see at the event. I can influence that. Having said that, I’ve never really understood who goes for the festival food when there is the richness of the Decatur restaurant scene surrounding them. What I would really like to see is the Decatur restaurant community do book festival specials: maybe boxed lunches or other to-go items for the festival crowd. My lunches on Saturday and Sunday were from Samiches and Stuff.