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Just Amazing! Great way to spend your day/evening and see all the amazing artists!! Chalk Art Rocks and all the Artists are Unbelievable!! True Talent!! The singers, vendors, etc Rock Too!!

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Thumbs up for trying to breathe some life into the moribund downtown area. The musical performers were awesome.

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There were only three food trucks out tonight and artists were just beginning to create their chalk art on the streets.

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N.C. State Fairgrounds

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Aesthetic: Beautiful, clean state fair with the best people watching ever!…read more My Favorites: The sweet animals like the big pigs, cows, and baby chicks! Experience: We had the best day at the state fair! I hadn't been to one since I was young in different states, but it had so much to offer, we were thrilled. I didn't expect the live music and beautiful country aesthetic. We started out walking around the mill area and the waterfront, and tried a frozen and hot apple cider and both were delicious. Then we walked and saw a ton of livestock and beautiful award winning gardens. We sampled crazy foods along the way that I've added in my pics from fried watermelon to pork belly churros. We ran around taking tons of pics of the rides and people watched until the sun went down and the fireworks began. Our hotel was in walking distance, and we were exhausted after walking for about 8 hours that day. I surprisingly didn't even gain weight from all the naughty food since we walked it all off. I can't wait to go back in the future, the NC state fair is the best!

We absolutely enjoy the fair!…read more Going to the fair is easy- buy your tickets online- it's free to park. We parked in the field on Edwards Mill- buses came every 5 minutes- very comfortable! Friendly drivers. We got dropped at the gate- then enjoyed ourselves- We didn't ride any rides - way too expensive (giant slide $7) unbelievable. The food was so pricey- one sausage $18 - lol - eat before you come (and bring snacks) Seeing all the shows and all the vendors- so much fun!

Got To Be NC Festival - My fav iced cream Bruster's

Got To Be NC Festival

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I love this festival…read more The fact there is an NC based festival that focuses on local vendors and creators is such a wonderful idea! I went to the sip and shop area where you can get an alcoholic drink and wander around. I got to sample so many amazing local foods, sauces, and sweets. I walked out of that place work so much stuff! Then the agriculture center has livestock and learning experiences for the little ones. This festival is definitely a must try if you've never been!

NC runs on agriculture and this festival is all about celebrating and educating on the state's…read moreagriculture. Got To Be NC is a smaller scale festival held on the same NC State fairgrounds. We enjoyed visiting for the first time this year. Parking was still a struggle despite it being free. We walked over from PNC's Wolfpack lot. Crowds were significantly less and admission is free. We enjoyed the food trucks offering plenty carnival fried foods and southern classics. We loved Bruster's Fresh Iced cream. The kids enjoyed the rides but prices could be more affordable given this is not the state fair. $30 a wristband really hits parents pockets when it's multiple children. The classic live shows are the reason I enjoy attending. We enjoyed the King BMX bike show and Lauryn Zepeda's pony trick show. The horses were beautiful and entertaining. The Graham Center housed all things agriculture. We fell in love with the baby pigs and it was enough to make me commit to being vegan. We ended the day with a ride on the state flyer and a 2 mile walk to our car. Until next year folks !

Southeast Crab Feast

Southeast Crab Feast

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I came across Southeast Crab Feast at the anniversary party of a local brewery. The Yelp listing…read morefor this business was for an All You Can Eat seafood festival, held by this same business, so a review for a two+ year old event didn't make sense. Yelp moderators may see it differently and that's okay. But for whatever it's worth, this place did a fantastic job. There was one truck and several pots of boiling seasoned water (a low country boil style) and a lot of people, adults and kids, walking away with plates of fresh cooked seafood. It was not an all you can eat event, unlike the annual festival, but each plate had a more-than-fair amount of seafood. According to their website, SECF is a non-profit entity supporting cancer research and treatment. I don't know if this brewery anniversary event was part of that, but if it was, it made the food taste even better. Despite the crowds, the crew working kept up with the orders for the most part and were nice enough, when they did get backed up, to deliver the food to people sitting at the tables. The food was boiled perfectly: The six jumbo shrimp had a light garlic butter sauce and were served with bite size pieces of potato. They shrimp were not overcooked and the potatoes were not undercooked. The crab legs came with a small ear of corn. While SECF had hot sauce and cocktail sauce available, they did not have the utensils to crack open the crab legs, so it required some ingenuity to make that happen. Sometimes the plastic fork, sometimes the original fork (aka fingers), and sometimes . . . well, sometimes just smashing it with something . . . . I'm not sure how well this type of food would work in an AYCE event, but for a single pay-per-plate, like any other food truck, it goes into the "win" column.

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"I keep drinking because I don't quit. Quitters are losers."…read more Woah! World Beer Festival. Where to start?! Well, for me, it's the corner of Person St and Martin St. I am a stickler of order and rules, so I started out at table #1 and trek my way across the all the brewery. While everyone flipping through their big book of Beer Guide, generously produced and provided by ALL ABOUT BEER MAGAZINE for this year's festivity, I however had done my study. Days before I have compiled and made a checklist of all the confirmed breweries, in Evernote, for easy checking in later in UNTAPPD app. I enjoyed all the national and international breweries, and even though the NC brewery tent was packed from beginning to end, I somehow made it through twice, when there was literally no moving foot traffic. Half way through the evening, feeling the waves of lethargy overcoming me, I wisely hopped over to the food tents, and got myself some stomach padding. The Sloppy Goats with Tots was quite interesting. Helping out at the Yelp booth also gave me some new perspectives, had I kept drinking, how much of a blabbering fool would I look to others. In the end it was a tremendously fun event, which I would most likely return in the coming years. (UPDATE: the final count was 96 check-ins in Untappd)

This was the first year I got a ticket and went to the World Beer Festival in Moore Square. All in…read moreall, I enjoyed it. I didn't stay the whole 6p-10p second session of the day but got to enjoy a lot of the flavor, both festival and beer, in what I did stay. Beer, beer, beer...it's a lot of beer. Greeted with your little clear plastic cup as you walk in, you get to have 2 oz. pours of whatever beers you choose to taste all during your session. And there had to be hundreds. Ciders as well, and actually they surprised me, I had a few I liked! Again, it cemented that I am just not an IPA kinda guy, but at least I got to try and see what I may like if any (just didn't happen with IPAs). From the serious beer tasters to those that were out to enjoy a downtown event to the sloppy drunken frat boy/wannabe frat boys and screeching drunk girls, and all in between, all types were definitely represented at this event. Great people watching event, that was some of the best fun. It was a decent setup, pretty spaced out tents but a bit (no, sometimes a lot) crowded in the actual tents where the beers were. I have low tolerance for claustrophobic situations but in the wide open space of Moore Square, you can get quick relief. The food is more along fair food type of stuff, I had the corn dogs and they were awesome actually! The live music was a good touch as well. I even ran into some fellow Yelpers and even old buds I haven't seen in years...good times. Bottom line: Will I go back again if I have the chance? Probably so. It was fun, and a welcome event to get everyone out and about in the downtown Raleigh area.

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