Strawberry Festival

This year was SOOOOO small! I’ll still keep it on our annual list of events but… Come on… Let’s step it up a bit. Bonus– we found free parking by the school.

Gosh what a money trap. Everything was geared to take money. Was so obvious. It had very little to do with Strawberry’s … They had company’s peddling you to buy their products, and alleged contest to steal people information. Over priced food and junk food. Only thing normal was car show. They should call it company peddler carnival

Worst event I’ve been to in a long time. Very overpriced ($ 5 to park and $ 8 admission per person) and not much to do. I felt like I was in the vendor halls at the state fair. We walked in and were immediately blocked by an aggressive sales guy telling us to give them all of our personal information for a chance to go in a money booth. We even overheard him telling a poor young teenager he was training that he wasn’t getting in people’s way enough. We had the same experience with aggressive vendors all over the event. We left after about 20 minutes and went to a local park instead. We won’t be going back again next year.

Disgusting!!! I can’t believe they don’t bring health inspectors into this fair I sat there and watched as one of the tents selling food blatantly broke health code every chance they got! The booth in-​between the java and pizza place sold chicken and bbq and I heard they are usually down on main st on tuesday. GROSS! I watched this place all day and heres what I saw just in ten minutes.
The buzzed husky hispanic gentleman knocked over the lid to the veggies, bent down grabbed it off the ground and put right back on them. Then decided to pick up some trash around the stand off the ground. Then without changing his gloves and handling trash with them he grabbed the meat right off the bbq and chopped it up. Then he stopped wiped his whole face and used the same cloth to clean the knife!!! Then still with the same f-​ing gloves he went back to serving food with his hands. UNBELIEVABLE!
I watched this place the whole time I was there as some form of sick entertainment. The elder man at the register handed money and touched the food all day. The bbq guy never changed his gloves even after doing God knows what on break, and I watched as that same chicken I mentioned above just sat there on the counter for 4 DAMN HOURS!
They need to bring health inspectors in this event, clearly the fairgrounds doesn’t care about professionalism.

SAD event. The Strawberry Festival originated in Old Town Roseville YEARS ago, back then it was fun. It was started by the Old Town Merchants Assn as a way to bring people into Old Town to support the businesses. Mike Galt & Isabel Bravo were early organizers. Now at the Fairgrounds, it is EXPENSIVE & the magic is gone.

Just got back from my first trek to the Roseville Strawberry Festival and was NOT impressed. Five bucks to park your car, check. Eight bucks admission fee, check. I have no problem paying these fees but surely expect to get some value for my money. That was clearly not the case here. We walked through the entire venue in about 20 minutes. No energy and no entertainment visible anywhere.
All we saw were lots and lots of vendor booths selling ridiculously priced wares. $ 5 for one chocolate strawberry? Another 5 bucks for an ear of roasted corn? Seriously, are the vendors simply jacking up the prices to pad their profits, or is the promoter of the event overcharging for the booth space, which in turn causes the vendors to overcharge for everything? Either way, it’s us that are paying these costs on top of admission and parking charges.
Considering the small size of his event it would have been better priced at $ 5 admission which included free parking. Adiós Strawberry Festival, I’ll be taking my $$ to festivals which provide a much better semblance of value.

Honestly, I really didn’t know what to expect. From what I did see, I wasn’t very impressed. I wish there were more cooked «strawberry» dishes, instead of tons of stands selling strawberries. I can get that at a farmer’s market!!! Cooked dishes that I did encounter: strawberry tamales, strawberry churros, strawberry kettle corn, etc.
Not sure if I’ll go back next year… maybe with a discounted entrance fee. It was pretty hefty for a quick walk through the entire festival.

I discovered a lady that sells lavender jellies last year and returned this year to purchase more. Not a strawberry product but still as amazing.
Nothing else really that exciting. Your usual fair-​esque snacks… but low and behold! Beignets!!! *squeal*
I haven’t had that moment of sweet carb filled glory since I was last in Louisiana. Happy happy joy joy!

I was pretty excited when I heard about this, but was kind of hoping for a little more.
The best thing about the fair was obviously the strawberry options and the opportunity to eat fair food.
The best thing I ate was the strawberry tamale– where else are you going to get one of those.
The bad bits– there wasn’t much in the way of entertainment– unless you were there to shop for fair type items or you had small children the only thing to do was eat and have a nosey at the sweet rides– by which I mean some nicely done up older cars.
If your not into cars and you didn’t happen to bring a long a bunch of munchkins eating is about your only option, which seriously did not justify the $ 8 entrance fee. It appeared as if the proceeds were going to the boy scouts (or something) so I consoled myself that I was donating to charity, but in the end $ 16 to get access to some not to spec food options was a bit on the lame-​o side.
Other options I tried were the frozen choc dipped banana and strawberry stick (I think they called this the canadian mountie or something), and the choc dipped strawberries on a stick which weren’t that great– it seemed like the woman doing them was by this time quite exhausted and was probably just over it. Since she was making them all day the ones I got were still rather warm from the chocolate which wasn’t that good. The ones I got at the grocery store were much better.

My husband and I attended the Strawberry Festival on Saturday to watch our granddaughter in the Little Miss Strawberry Pagaent. That was fun and they had a good attendence and lots of little girls competing.
I had a HUGE bowl of strawberry shortcake from the Boy Scout booth which was delcious.
Unlike some of the other comments, I was never able to find a booth that was actually selling fresh, local strawberries. I had hoped to find all kinds of booths with Fresh strawberry products like cakes and pies and to go home with at least a flat of strawberies. Most of the booths were food that had nothing to do with strawberries.
There was not enough handicapped parking and my husband and I had to either park far from the gate or sit and wait for a handicapped space to open up (which we did).
I too had a groupon so it was a fun day for $ 13 ($ 5 to park and $ 8 admission). I would not go out of my way to go again.

I was happy to hang with good friends and get a free ticket for me and my whole family, on the other hand this was a very low key event. My son enjoyed the Crazy Bike guy activity, which was a bike that no one could ride except carny guy. The deal was pay $ 5 to ride it a foot forward and then get $ 100, no one present won. Totally funny statement by Crazy Bike Guy to my son is, «people win, just not here.» I tried lumpia for the first time and injested many other fair type treats. One fun part was the clearance type prices on festival foods near the end of the event. Unfortunately we had already eaten and spent triple the discount price. Overall this was about the company, not the event. Oh I bought a really pretty geranium plant from the Boy Scouts of America for $ 4, which I believe was a highlight.

First of all, I went on a free ticket and totally appreciate it.
Having said that, there wasn’t a lot to this festival. There was a decent, super-​fatty food selection, although I am too cheap for ‘fair food.’ We went on Sunday afternoon and there were no activities beyond the cheesy cover band.
So, I had a good time with the friends in attendance, but would not pay to attend this festival in the future.

Strawberries are my fave so I’ve always wanted to check out the strawberry festival. Finally got the chance and luckily for me there was a Groupon special $ 8 for 2 tickets!
My husband & I decided to go for mothers day. We got there around noon and was able to find parking along the street at the elementary school. I’m glad we found a spot; saved us $ 5 parking fee!
The festival was pretty small. There was not much there except a few food booths and strawberry vendors. We tried the strawberry beer which was $ 6. Not too horrible but worth a try. We also got a chicken and pork stick from the Thai BBQ stand. It was good. The beignet (european doughnut) was yummy! It was $ 5, came with 2 fairly good sized doughnuts covered with strawberries, walnuts and powered sugar. It was actually the only and best thing about my whole experience. There were other vendors that includes strawberry pizza, strawberry churro, coffee, shortcake, sundaes, funnel cake, etc but I was already stuffed from the BBQ & garlic fries.
I don’t think I would be returning again. It’s one of those things where you go just to check it out and never again.

This was great festival. Lots of arts and crafts and good food. I’ve never heard of the festival before. Thanks to Groupon deal, I made the plan to go with the kids. They loved it. Lots of strawberry theme food. Lots of vendors and great. Many people. I’m sure I will be there next year.

I’m glad I purchased a Groupon for this event otherwise it is not worth the $ 8 entrance fee. I was basically in and out of there within an hour.
If you go early enough there are plenty of spaces for street parking. There weren’t too many people there. I think this is more of an event for the locals.
There were plenty of strawberry based foods that included tamales, pizza, salsa, beer, etc., but none of them really appealed to me.
I ordered the chicken teriyaki– $ 6. It was quite big and flavorful. This was probably one of the most popular items there since it had the longest line.
I also ordered the strawberry puppies (hushpuppies) for the sake of getting something strawberry related– $ 2. It was ok but I don’t understand why the Hershey’s chocolate sauce that was used to dip the strawberry puppies into was so watery.
Of course they also sold plain old strawberries. They were some of the best strawberries I ever had. My friend even bought a box of them.