So I've been meaning to come to this festival for ages - just wasn't able to get around to it this time of the year since I usually either forgot when it was or had something else going on. Finally made it in 2026. Parked in the shaded parking lot of Fallbrook High School and in a short while a comfy air conditioned shuttle bus took a bunch of us up to the 7-11 at the south end of the festival at Main Ave and Fallbrook Street. I had read all the reviews so I knew not to expect a lot of avocado themed items like I would have imagined they might have - avocado beer, avocado wine, Indonesian avocado coffee (es apulkat), avocado shaped bumper cars and other avocado themed fairground rides, folks walking around dressed in avocado costumes, a guacamole wrestling ring, etc. But I did go on a scavenger hunt of all avocado related items mentioned in reviews from years past. The festival is on Main avenue between W Fallbrook Street and E Mission Road on the north end. There were all sorts of booths like you'd see at a street fair or farmers market. There was also The Fun Zone - a huge play area for kids with all sorts of things like a giant slide. So first thing I got was the Holy Guaca-Moly guacamole and chips for ten bucks - it seemed like there was one of these booths at every other intersection along Main avenue. It was good guacamole but you don't get a lot for the amount they were charging. Next I went to the Coal Bunker to try the pork and the shrimp stuffed avocados. They also had chicken as well as quinoa stuffed avocados. Of the two I tried the shrimp most definitely ruled - would get that again. After that I went to Bakin' It Up to try their avocado ice cream and avocado fudge bar - the avocado ice cream was a nice cold treat for a warm day and the avocado fudge was very creamy - no surprise since avocado is the first ingredient listed on the packaging. I also went next door to The Spoiled Avocado, who were also advertising Avocado Fudge. They were giving out samples and this was different - actual chocolate pieces made with avocado oil - they were not creamy but solid pieces in all sorts of flavors - classic, walnut, orange, peanut butter, salted caramel. I also paid a visit to the Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society which was a nice detour to get away from the crowds. Finally there seemed to be a lot of folks selling boxes of Hass from Del Rey Avocado Company. I would have gotten one as well but instead I got Zutanos from Everdawn Farms and Fuertes from Del Sol Ranch so I left the festival content with my avocado haul. read more

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Very disappointed. Nothing about this was avocado themed. The only thing "avocado" themed were a 2 or 3 guacamole stands every other block. This was just an oversized, overcrowded street market. read more

Wow some of these reviews are overly harsh. I understand them partially as I do wish there were more avocados for sale. The ones I came home with were small and not much better priced than the supermarket. I also wish there were more avocado themed foods, but after speaking with a vendor and finding out the outrageous amount they charge food vendors for a stand, I can see why they have so few. That said I had a delightful time there. There was so much to see and do. Yes it's more like a Farmers' Market but it was a great one with lots of unique vendors and items for sale. The environment was very festive too. It can definitely be improved but I had fun and would go back again. read more

Waste of time driving to this place. This is just another farmers market. The only one selling avocados is someone from Mexico, and I can guess that the avocados are from Mexico. At least I know not to come here next year. read more

You know how you get disappointed when you think you've hit the jackpot of ripened avocados only to realize that the avocado you selected has an unruly enlarged pit and is slightly already rotten on the inside? That's the feeling I felt driving away from Sunday's Avocado Festival. Let me get this shock out of the way before proceeding my review: I don't like avocados. No, I wasn't dropped as a child. Yes, I've tried them already and still don't care for them. And no, I don't even like guacamole (which is essentially just smashed avocado). However, with six months of marriage under my belt, I've learned quickly that the key to a happy husband is a.) compromise and b.) a revolving door of avocados always in our pantry. Avocado Festival or Bust! My parents read about the Annual Fallbrook Avocado Festival in the AAA Westways Magazine and brought it to my attention (knowing how much my husband obsesses over these green grenades). After pitching the idea to the hubs, we decided to take our participation one step further and turned the festival into a staycation weekend by booking a hotel down in the area and inviting the catalysts themselves to join in the fun. Since the festival was only scheduled for one day, we booked a hotel for Saturday night in Rancho Bernardo to take advantage of visiting that area before hitting the road 30 minutes North to Fallbrook on Sunday to get our 'cado on. Conveniently, the festival provides free parking and shuttle rides to / from some local schools to avoid having to deal with finding parking in the midst of street closures, etc. The process from the school onto the shuttle and to the festival was easy, but that's where the excitement ends. What does one expect to find at an avocado festival? Avocados. Apparently the avocado shortage is no joke because that is what we witnessed on Sunday. With the exception of two vendor booths selling guacamole slumped onto a nacho bowl of tortilla chips and avocados on the t-shirts of the sponsors, avocados were absolutely NO WHERE to be found. I felt bad for my husband who expected a swimming pool of avocado ice cream, a green smoothie, avocado dressings, or honestly just anything unique related to avocados. We would have had more luck finding avocados rotten in the lockers of the schools the shuttles ran from. What did we find? A street fair with the longest length of repeat vendors in Southern California. Thankfully the weather was beautiful and the people watching opportunities were endless but everything else about our visit fell...unripened. Food vendors were typical overpriced fair food prices and the entertainment main stage was so incredibly small. We sat and watched a band play during lunch which was enjoyable but the follow-up Bluegrass band could barely be heard. There was a ton of people there visiting the festival and I didn't see too many security patrol outside of those checking ID's in the beer garden by the main stage. For the amount of people walking the streets, I found this to be extremely unsafe. The line to take the shuttles back to the schools' parking lots was absolutely chaos. No one knew which bus headed back to where so even my husband had to step up to take control of the line and direct traffic accordingly. We are still waiting for that paycheck... Was it worth the trip? Any family time is worth the ride. But will we be back next year? Guaca-NO-le! read more

Fallbrook Avocado Festival - One can live the Avocado Festival vicariously through just this one photo. - Festivals Near Me - Fallbrook, California

This was my first time since living in Fallbrook that I've been to the Avocado Festival. They had quite a few blocks closed. They had a live band playing. A variety of vendors. My favorite was the mommas boy cookies. They are veteran owned and they have this coconut oatmeal chocolate chip cookie that no one else has. I buy it everywhere I see them. Fun little festival. read more

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This Avocado Festival has grown into a street fair sorry to say. Located in downtown Fallbrook it stretches about a mile now. If you get there by 8 am you may find curb parking. Later than that and you pay $10 to park....lots of that. Also sorry to say not more than four street vendors really had anything to do with avocados. A guac stand (2) and an avocado gelato...I'm rounding up. There were lots of cheap jewellery and moo moos for women. What surprised me was all the construction, insurance and what not vendors. There were more stores with avocado themed merchandise than the festival....no kidding. If you you were hungry then this was the place for you. At every street intersection was food booths ...bbq lots of it. Tacos, sausage, brats and street corn. Kettle corn to of course. They were selling avocados for a buck, I get them at Ralph's for 79 cents. Tip....come early say by 9am because by noon you could hardly walk around....lots of people. I hope next year they downsize and have more avocado themed foods and products. read more

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Have more AVOCADO!! We didn't even find avocado oil. It's seemed more of just a Farmers Market. NOT worth the 2 hour drive for me. Enjoyed the friends I was with though!! read more

Like most reviewers, I was overly ecstatic in hearing about an Avocado festival, because lets be honest, we LOVE avocados!!!! But of course, after venturing through this whole festival, I'd have to agree that there was barely anything avocado related. I do have to admit that I also agree that this is a festival full of a diverse selection of vendors all trying to sell or advertise a product, and disguised as an avocado festival. BUT I cant tell you that there are ALOT of vendors and EVEN MORE people attending. The festival is a long strip of vendors lined up a long a blocked off street. There were so many people attending that it took forever to walk through one end. You gotta walk like a mob of zombies. I was very disappointed that there weren't more avocado related food to eat. The only thing I saw was chips and guacamole. Literally thats it. I did also get a hot dog, potato fried chips, and lemonade. Bought a case of strawberries. And thats it. Overall, it's just something to do if you're in the area. read more

4/15/18 - Just left the Fallbrook "avocado" festival. Sad experience. Not much avocado related anything. There was 1 stand called "Holy-guacamole" that sold chips and guac. It was good, but not much else. Actually, there was a football team, at an unlabled booth, trying to sell avocados to fund their team something. I would have loved to try avocado infused foods or something made from avocado something. So disappointed. Just a run-of-the-mill street fair. Walked away with a bag of kettle popcorn, strawberry lemonade. Oh, and Hubby bought a jelwery-type box made of wood that had the Navy insignia. Meh. Not worth checking out again. read more

Probably one of the biggest street fairs without admission fee that I've been to, and parking was only $5! The street parking was all full by the time we got there so free parking was not an option. It's a big fair, and you'd be very happy if you like fairs and don't care for avocados, because if you do, like me, you'll just end up with disappointment. We walked for 3-4 blocks without a sight of an avocado... And finally when we saw one, it was hass avocados at a produce stand, which you see plenty at a Von's or Sprouts... I was really hoping to see different varieties of avocados! We also tried the famous deep fried avocados. Although they don't sound appealing to begin with, we still gave it a shot. Meh. Don't bother. We didn't even finish the tray! The best thing that happened there was my purchase of some dresses made in India/Nepal as I love the unique designs. This fair was great about having a lot of everything but very little avocado or avocado related products. read more

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I wish I had read the reviews before I went. I was super excited for a day of live music and to eat all things avocado reimagined. In reality, it's more of a swap meet with guacamole available and it looked like it was all from the same company, not even competing options to try and compare! We walked for 2 1/2 hours and there was zero live music. My daughter and I had a good time together but it should be named the Fallbrook Annual Swap Meet, not avocado festival. Nothing festival there and definitely not avocado inspired. read more

In what appears to be a trend among food themed festivals, this is nothing but a cash grab for money from vendors. This is just a street festival disguised as an avocado festival, as most of the vendors had nothing to do with avocados. There were a bunch of avocado themed t-shirts and plush animals, but that was it. I only found two food vendors with unique avocado items. The highlight of my day was the avocado ice cream. I definitely wouldn't go back. read more

If I could give this a negative 5 stars, that's what I would give it. This should NOT have been called an Avocado festival when it was nothing more than a VERY LARGE flea market. We did not see one avocado vendor or anybody selling anything to do with avocados. It was a complete waste of time and energy. The food might have been good if we could've ever gotten to the front of the line to actually try it. There were too many merchandise vendors and too little food and beverage vendors. We drove two hours to get to this event and needles to say we will never be back again. The avocado festival in Carpinteria California definitely knows how to put an avocado festival together. They actually have avocados there. To the city of Fallbrook or whoever put this event on, you might want to look into how Carpinteria does it so you know how to make it better in the future. read more

Fallbrook Avocado Festival - There were way too many people to attend this one day event. Ridiculous crowds! - Festivals Near Me - Fallbrook, California

Went to this festival today (April 2023) and it was AWESOME. Guacamole, Avocado Ice Cream, Avocado Cupcakes, Stuffed Avocados, Avocados by the bag and lots of Avocado merchandise to purchase plus 100's of other great vendors and a great band. Will be back next year! Almost didn't go because of all the poor reviews but we thought it was great! I would just add an Avocado Toast Food Truck next year! read more

My cousin has the most fabulous bacon avocado tree. But it only produces every other year. This year wasn't one of them. So, why not go to an avocado festival? (Okay, I was bribed with the additional bonus of lunch & slots at Pechanga & shopping at Tom's Farms. Incentive was needed to get me up at 5:30 in the morning and drive all the way down there.) This was a big festival. Booths lined Main Street for blocks and blocks. Food and farmers market booths were on some side streets. We were there too early to experience any live music. I'd really rather think of this as a city street fest, rather than say that avocados were the main focus. A lot of local businesses and other groups were interspersed between the many craft booths. Tip: check out the various booths selling the $5 bags of avocados before you buy. We found this one booth that offered a variety of good-sized avos in each bag. http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/BGp9lHK4ecL9ByyA0N6vEA?select=6ADpymWZCiEPwTTa_GiwMQ Found a vendor selling proteus flowers and couldn't resist buying three lovely stems. http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/BGp9lHK4ecL9ByyA0N6vEA?select=H6WLgX5aafWlHhdsGSPZ1g http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/BGp9lHK4ecL9ByyA0N6vEA?select=TbmK5wtqU_J3b62errARyg The hubby wandered through the classic car show. http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/BGp9lHK4ecL9ByyA0N6vEA?select=4JU0dKaSBOjZsRvsPXxlkQ http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/BGp9lHK4ecL9ByyA0N6vEA?select=BBTpayuVQNrjac8nEHltuA Spent some time watching the dog obedience demonstration and felt bad that we're such failures. Our chihuahua is the most unruly curmudgeon ever. http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/BGp9lHK4ecL9ByyA0N6vEA?select=gO1OHFYqGcNvjkigLOZKRw Since we were there early, we scored quite a few freebies: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/BGp9lHK4ecL9ByyA0N6vEA?select=R3hFdwPltaeFFBEB-Yq5lg Check out the cool Miley Cyrus bag! LOL Got some pretty good stuff though, really. A grocery tote, eyeglass cleaner, pens, chip clip, keychain, can cooler, useful pest & health info, hand sanitizer, etc. Friendly atmosphere. But, go early! By the time we left around 10:30, it was already getting crowded! read more

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It was on my way from San Diego to Palm Desert this past weekend, so it was an easy decision to make a slight detour and check out this festival. What a let-down!! This is nothing more than a large street fair, with thousands of visitors, combining vendors selling plumbing, solar panels, arts & crafts, kitchen tile, outdoor sculptures, and the ubiquitous lemonade, sausage, and bbq. Plus, they have this street fair in the middle of April, when it's bloody hot, with no breeze. They should move it to Feb or March. We came, walked around, had a delicious avocado taco (only one other vendor was selling anything avocado related), and proceeded back to our car as soon as we could. read more

Okay, so I'm sort of new in San Diego. I had heard of Fallbrook but had no idea where it was. I see an "Avocado Festival" on social media, and thought what the hell? Sort of misleading I might say. The title should have been "Giant Street Fair". We walked for blocks without seeing ANYTHING avocado. I was getting a little perturbed, as I can check out a street fair anytime without driving 40 miles. Finally I spotted some people walking around with guacamole and chips and I (almost tackled) asked them where the got it. They pointed me to the holy guacamole booth. (Same guys at every Farmers Market) I grabbed a $6 boat of chips and guac and headed on my way to find some avocados. I finally arrived at a couple of booths that had produce and lot's of avocados. I was so bummed because I wanted avocado chips, avocado oil, etc. All I could find was few fresh produce booths, and couple olive oil booths. The rest of the blocks were filled with trinket booths. Kinda weird to call this an avocado festival. Especially since I was standing in the Avocado Mecca of the universe, Fallbrook. read more

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This was some of the worst false advertising I'd ever fallen victim to. How dare they call themselves an Avocado Festival? We drove from the Los Angeles area for avocados, but the only avocados to be found were 1) on the streetlight banners advertising the event and 2) on our clothes. It was just a typical street fair/swap meet without any avocado association whatsoever. They really need to re-name it the Fallbrook Useless Shit for Sale Festival. Two girlfriends and I love a good theme, so we bought some avocado outfits (yay for Amazon Prime!), I made sequined wristbands and a T-shirt applique, and off to Avochella we went. In our 30s, "festival season" means all of the food festivals we can find, and the only drugs we brought were my friend's prenatal vitamins. But we still wore flower headbands so that we could feel like young festival-goers. Anyway, upon arriving and dealing with the horrendous, disorganized parking and rude people, we wandered around in search of what we had come for.... fried avocado wedges, avocado ice cream, Iron Chef-style avocado cookoffs, avocado-growing contests with farmers vying for ribbons, avocado-eating contests, people dressed like avocados and dancing.... you get the idea. This was my vision of the day. Instead, we found people selling clothes, art, useless crap, water filtration systems, aggressive timeshare salespeople, etc. There was one guacamole booth, and even the food area was sad and lacking. We had seen more avocados at most other events we'd been to. Disappointed, we found a Mexican restaurant and spent the afternoon there (they didn't even offer avocados, either). What we wanted for the day was to dress up and to spend time with each other, so we got that. But I would never come back. And when I stopped by the mall on my way home, I was approached by a guy asking about my ridiculous outfit and why I was wearing it, and we exchanged numbers, so maybe wearing my stupid outfit in public got me a date. But that's the only good that came from the day. You can do better than this and your false promises of avocados, Fallbrook! read more

It was basically a street fair with little emphasis on avocados. I am sorry we drove an hour only to be disappointed and feel like we had to pay $7 for overpriced guac and chips. One of the highlights of the festival was (ironically) the $1 tacos. Also, the school buses shuttled us from the high school to the festival for free and admission to the festival was free. I bought 7 avocados from the "street fair" and by the time I got home, one had mold on it that had spread to two other avocados that I threw out. I tasted one of four non-moldy avocados and it did not taste right. I usually go to Costco or Trader Joe's for avocados and wish I had just done that instead. Avoid this festival unless you're looking for a street fair. read more

Other reviewers got it right. It's a glorified street fair with a half dozen avocado vendors among the hundreds of vendors. I was wanting to buy some avocados other than the Hass variety you see at the supermarket, but no one was selling them. Most were selling the 25 for $5. A great deal nonetheless. Bought the chips and guac from the holy guacamole stand and it was tasty. The secret is to keep the guac ice cold to maximize the flavor and they did a good job. There was one booth that had dozens and dozens of varieties of avo of crazy shapes and sizes, but they weren't selling them....they were only for display. Bummer. I asked if I could buy any. They said no but that all of the avos on display would be sold after 4 pm when the fair closes. And for $5 each. Yikes! The festival was decent but once is enough for me. read more

Fallbrook Avocado Festival - Many varieties of avo - Festivals Near Me - Fallbrook, California

Sorry but we were all very disappointed with this festival. The only avocados we saw were at one end where boy scouts were selling them. Other than that one sighting, we didn't see anything related to the avocado. I talked to other visitors who had walked all the way to the other end of the festival who said the other booths were just repeats of what we had already seen. We came ready to spend money on avocado food items, avocado beauty products, avocado gadgets, avocado decorator items, you name it! If there are booths at future festivals that carry avocado products, please inform visitors where they are located! read more

It is a great street fair! Free admission and there is free parking if you get there early enough. As a local and an artisan vendor at this event, I can say it is a good event to go to and to be a part of. I don't understand all these negative reviews! What were you expecting from our cute little town? There are lots of avocados for sale, an avocado art contest inside the Brandon Gallery, yummy avocado food, avocado ice cream, avocado fudge and the artisans are encouraged to make avocado handmade goodies! How much more avocado can we even do? Not every booth as an avocado-something, but like, who wants avocado-shoes, undies, and more? Warning: IT GETS HOT! We cannot control mother nature, so wear your sunscreen and leave your dogs at home. It gets CROWDED! There is amazing food, fun shops to pop into, and lots of interesting vendors to visit. Yes, there are some "hawkers" (those people that shoat at you from their booths to get you to buy solar panels or sign up for something) although we don't allow it. But a lot of the people in this town are nice, even in the hot weather. Please come to Fallbrook's biggest event for great food, live music, and to discover more about this area. And don't forget to visit our world-renowned Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Museum on Alvardo Street, just steps away from the main street fair! read more

Awesome! Get there early! There are a ton of $10 parking lots right at the festival with spaces open all day. We took our Smart car an found parking so close! (It's our festival car lol!) I have never seen so many vendors! We bought shirts, jams and spreads, dip mixes, avocados, wooden signs, jewelry and so much more! Some great finds and very creative artists! I'm glad we finally got to go and I am excited to make this a new tradition! ****Please do not bring your pets!! Website says no animals and we saw way too many dogs! The pavement is hot, there's not much shade and every dog we saw was in rare form! Please, please don't do that to your animal!!**** read more

Thanks for all the honest reviews. Ive decided im not going. A waste of time. Back in Alabama theres shrimp festivals, sausage festivals, strawberry festivals. Some are huge & soo cool. I miss them & wish they had them out here in southern cali. Looks like they need to go check them out to see how to do them right. Bummer read more

My wife and I try to comment on Yelp when something is worthy of either a positive above and beyond or below par situation. There's always enough negative comments so we try to mostly only comment when something is great and deserves praise. Sadly though we have to be honest. We planned a whole weekend around the "largest avocado festival" around and were not thrilled with it at all. We feel bad because I'm sure this brings lots of business to this town and the vendors so not saying anything bad about that but something's gotta change at this event which is mostly vendors selling goods and not so much about avocado's, huh?! 1 vendor sold 1 type of avocado. 1 vendor had multiple booth and is a commercial guacamole company selling pre-made guacamole & chips. We have been to the California Avocado Festival in Carpenteria and it has more a variety of things, not mostly craft vendors. AvoEXPO TENT is home to Avocado agricultural photos, historical photos, lessons in avocado grafting, FFA restored antique tractors, and the Largest Avocado Contest. There's many varieties of avocado's shown in the agriculture area. We found out names of avocado's I've never even heard. My love for one I've never heard of, Lamb-Hass avocado's came from here and was grown and tested by a university right here in California. The Avocado Festival is home to the WORLD'S LARGEST Vat of Guacamole!  The FOOD VENUE, that has plenty of creative avocado dishes, can be found. This is what we're expecting when we go to an avacado festival. We think the committee needs to go to the Carpenteria event to get a better idea on what should happen. Sorry if this hurts any of the vendors who rely on this for their income but it's not personal. Maybe you can help create a better event as well. read more

Avocado Festival REALLY dont waste your money it is nothing but a big swap meet. Only avocado item was chip with avocado on it. Otherwise basic food nothing special. It was advertised they had avocado food booths all over, NOPE they did not. We walked around for a hour and a half covered it all and left with nothing to eat. Very disappointed. Will never go again... I give this a big ZERO. read more

Where the hell were the avocados at the avocado festival? For a festival so long with what must be 50+ booths, only 5-10 have actual avocado products and all the rest were just street fair or swap meet items. I wouldn't have issues with a booth selling jewellery or cloths but SOMETHING should've been avocado themed! No avocado jewellery. No avocado shirts or dresses. This is a complete fraud! read more

Gosh! I don't know why so many people don't like the festival! I loved it! Yeah, it's not only about avocados, but how many things could you actually plan to display, sell, or celebrate that are solely based on an avocado? It's in Fallbrook because they grow a lot of avocados there. I've been to where they grow them. I actually helped clear the area when the fires destroyed a lot of those places. A lot of people commenting seem a bit privileged as far as avocados go lol... just saying! If they have better ideas about running the festival, maybe they should run it? Don't all raise your hands at once! read more

I was so excited when I heard about this festival and couldn't wait to see all of the avocado products and produce, etc. My parents and husband and I came all the way from Oceanside and Encinitas for this festival. We were expecting to see lots of cool avocado products and fun foods with avocado. We were thinking maybe we'd learn about different varieties of avocados, etc. As Californians obsessed with avocado, we figured this was going to be heaven on earth. In reality, this is a huge street fair with very little avocado anything. It was one of the biggest street fairs I've been to and it went for blocks and blocks. We enjoyed looking at the various vendors, however many of the vendors are the same as see at local farmer's markets or other street fairs (Encinitas, Carlsbad, etc.). So while we had a fun time, we were a bit let down. Calling it the Fallbrook Street Fair would be much more accurate (although less cutesy). The stuffed avocados food vendor was A-MAZING. They had chicken caeser, caprese, BLT, etc. They were so delicious. It's pretty awesome to go to a street fair and actually eat healthy! We also had the chips and guac from Holy Guacamole, which was absolutely perfect. I also bought some avocado fudge from one of the local shops (Retro Candy and Toys), which we haven't tried yet, but we're looking forward to it! They had a few kinds including dark chocolate vegan avocado fudge and milk chocolate avocado fudge. This shop was super cute- with some funny avocado themed shirts ("I'm the good kind of fat" and "I love my avocado body") and products. I was happy we checked out this store. The other avocado things I saw were avocado ice cream (YUM) and avocado macaroons. Besides these things though, it was a normal street fair on steroids. My mom and I are both artists so we checked out an art gallery (I forgot the name) that was open along main street. It was a really nice gallery featuring several artists and in the back they had a few walls featuring artwork with an avocado theme. It was mostly paintings but there were some sculptures, jewelry, tapestry. You were even able to vote on which one was your favorite! Super fun! We also enjoyed the beer and wine garden. There was a nice band playing in a cute little courtyard. You enter, buy the # of tickets you want, and stand in line for whichever beer or wine you want. The courtyard was shaded as well, and it was nice to escape the sun! read more

Note to Avocado Festival Owners: need giant avocado signs, someone dressed up as avocado, avocado education booth, avocado tasting, avocado trees, avocado earrings, bracelets, kitchen towels, umbrellas, signs, lots of avocado foods (not just Guacamole), and LOTS of avocado things! read more

Just like previous reviews said, it's more like a huge street fair. I still didn't mind walking around though. What was a little sad was that I saw a lot of pet owners with their dogs, when the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce website for the festival says absolutely no pets allowed. I would've totally brought our pup if I knew. Not very many avocado showcases. Just the Holy Guaca-Moly stands with their $6 chips and salsa, Cold Stone's avocado ice cream stand, Avocado Gelato, and some farmer's market stands selling $5 for 25 avocados in a bag along with their other produce. The beer gardens only sold Budweiser??? Really??? How disappointing. We did see some wines on the north refreshment area, but by that time, we already helped ourselves with some local tap at the Irish Pub on the same street at the fair. I had a Bacon Wrapped Hotdog for lunch. It was okay. The BF got Kalua pork. He liked it very much. I wish I tried some ice cream, but the Cold Stone stand wouldn't let the BF try the avocado ice cream first before we got some. No worries, I can get avocado ice cream in any Filipino Food Store if I really craved it. We got there at 10:45am and was still able to find parking on one of the side streets off of S Mission. It was a scant 2 block walk to the festival. I'm glad the temperatures were not as hot as previous festivals were. Overall, it was entertaining. I might visit again next year. read more

On a blacktop stretch of a street with almost zero shade? The blacktop retains the sun's heat to the point where people get heatstrokes if they do not hydrate. It is more than a mile of vendor booths to walk past. (half a mile on one side, another half a mile on the other side and several perpendicular streets with vendors. Got very crowded by noon. Also where are the Avocado dishes, fares and gourmet cooking I imagined? There were only guacamole/chips, deep-fried wedges of avocado that people do not finish eating, ice cream with a hint of avocado and a chocolate fudge which ingredients include avocado at the 5th ingredient spot. The next day, friends said they had Avocado Margaritas and the permanent restaurant spots had something avocado related on their menu. The vendors were mostly crafts, artists, other-kind-of-foods. A 10 classic cars parking-lot to browse. A few kiddie rides. Corndog for the kid was $6. Sarsaparilla drink $5. read more

We drove out of our way to what we thought would be a unique event, but were very disappointed. I have to say ditto all of the other one star comments from 4/15/18. No avocados in sight. Huge crowds. Dirty portable bathrooms w/washstands out of water. All of the vendors that were there you can find at a cleaner, less crowded county fair venue closer to home. read more

This is about 200 vendors selling general merchandise. There were 2 vendors selling avocado related food. Avocado ice cream and one single vendor selling guacamole. In fact we couldn't even find a place to BUY avocados. There had been one booth selling avocados by the box, when they sold out. There was nothing. Anyone hoping to taste creative avocado recipes won't be happy with this vendor selling opportunity. This is a street based vendor opportunity. There was a couple of casual live music artists but no seating or bleachers. This festival was a DUD. read more

What a waste of a day. Came here to try out some avocado inspired dishes but instead was greeted with swap meet trashy merchandise. For the self-proclaimed avocado capital of the world this festival was an embarrassment, even by swap meet standards. read more

A festival, yes. A street fair yes. Not really sure what it had to do with Avocados. Really disappointed.

New to CA & 1st festival I've gone too & looked forward to tasting/trying & seeing all kinds of avocado items but very disappointed. Only one handful of anything avocado, ie guacamole tasting by one vendor with two locations, avocado themed socks, aprons; avocado ice cream booth, avocado of CA booth (best/informative) of them all & stage show of selecting avocado queen. In all most vendors seen at all other festivals. Won't recommend in future. And unless early arrival, parking $10!! read more

In one word... DISAPPOINTING. To call it an "avocado festival" is not just an exaggeration, it's false advertising. There was one tiny table off to the side (barely noticeable) demoing various types of avos. There wasn't much avocado-type food, only crafty avo items. I had hoped for a display of the various types of avos, some history on the area's avos, and an opportunity to buy some of these lovelies and perhaps some young trees, but there was nothing of that nature. I also really longed for some true guac, but instead all they had (with at least three locations) was Holy Guacamole - and I am not a fan. While it is a decent street festival, it is NOT an "avocado festival" by any stretch of the imagination. Fallbrook really needs to step-up their game, or change the name to "Fallbrook Festival." This would realign the expectations of festival goers, they would avoid the negative reviews, and those of us looking for a true avocado experience would skip the drive (which in my case was 2 hours each way). Sorry FAF, I had such high expectations and left feeling disappointed. read more

I went to the first and a couple more a few years later. If you like wandering through mazes of vendor displays and eating avocado, this annual event is pretty neat. In the beginning, these events were a lot more about the "avovado". Now it's very commercialized. I love trying new takes on how to eat avocado that people sell here. I've had probably the best fried avo from one of these events. Also a great opportunity to pick up some local arts and crafts. read more