2014 Food GPS Fried Chicken Festival Recap + Slideshow

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Food Event Los Angeles

Historic Los Angeles Chinatown buildings framed the Food GPS Fried Chicken Festival on Jung Jing Road, Mei Ling Way, Sun Mun Way and along Broadway. [Jessica Park Photography]

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On August 17, the third annual Food GPS Fried Chicken Festival took place in L.A.’s Chinatown, featuring some of the city’s best chefs and benefiting Chinatown Service Center, a great neighborhood organization that’s impacted the community since 1971. Thanks to the hard working food and drink pros, volunteers, Bolthouse Farms, Chinatown BID and more who made the latest Fried Chicken Festival a success, and to all the ticket buyers for supporting the event! Scroll below to see just some of the highlights.


Cocktail Los Angeles

The Melon Blossom Breeze cocktail from Jason Bran and Damian Windsor combined Pavan Liqueur, watermelon, and lime. [Jessica Park Photography]

Craft Beer California

Firestone Walker Brewing Company always delivers big at culinary events, and they once again served great craft beer: DBA, Pivo, and Union Jack. [Jessica Park Photography]

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McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams is serving premium Santa Barbara ice cream at two 2014 events. [Jessica Park Photography]

Ice Cream Santa Barbara

McConnell’s served two kinds of ice cream: Eureka Lemon and Marionberries, and Double Peanut Butter Chip. [Jessica Park Photography]

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Quenelle chef/owner John Park brought an elaborate, delicious frozen dessert: mango pineapple soup with blood orange and Greek yogurt sorbets, Chamomile gelée, Marcona almonds, and coconut feuilletine. [Jessica Park Photography]

Cupcakes Los Angeles

Sprinkles Cupcakes displayed their signature dot-on-dot aesthetic on five kinds of mini cupcakes: Red Velvet, Carrot, Lemon, Vanilla, and S’mores. [Jessica Park Photography]

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Valerie Confections owners Valerie Gordon and Stan Weightman now have three Eastside outposts, including a Grand Central Market lunch counter and an Echo Park teahouse. [Jessica Park Photography]

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Valerie’s delectable stone fruit crisp touted Flavor Queen and Dapple Dandy pluots, which they sourced from the Hollywood Farmers Market. [Jessica Park Photography]

Coffee Orange County

One of Southern California’s most progressive coffee concepts is Portola Coffee Lab, based in Costa Mesa’s OC Mix. They served ice coffee on draught, plus an array of espresso drinks, available with or without milk. [Jessica Park Photography]

Tea Orange County

Seventh Tea Bar is the other Costa Mesa concept from Jeff Duggan and wife Christa in The OC Mix. They served ice tea on draught. [Jessica Park Photography]

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Kip Barnes and John Rockwell from Los Angeles Ale Works served craft sodas. [Jessica Park Photography]

Soda Los Angeles

Los Angeles Ale Works sodas consisted of Ketsara Thai tea, watermelon, and a special version of watermelon brewed with sage, mint and rosemary. [Jessica Park Photography]

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It was a hot day in Chinatown, but the venue provided welcome shade for guests as the sun set. [Jessica Park Photography]

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People found places to take breathers and enjoy the fun. [Jessica Park Photography]

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Big Red Entertainment made special chicken balloons for this event. [Jessica Park Photography]

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Guests mainly came in groups and enjoyed proceedings. [Jessica Park Photography]

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It was fun to see one woman in a Sriracha shirt, especially with the L.A. Sriracha Festival coming to Chinatown on October 19. [Jessica Park Photography]

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People really got into the Big Red Entertainment balloon creations. [Jessica Park Photography]

DJ Los Angeles

DJ Bryan Davidson, who’s now a Food GPS event staple, once again moved the crowd. [Jessica Park Photography]

Balloon Artist Los Angeles

Sean from Big Red Entertainment once again delivered on creative balloon requests for over three hours, including a new signature chicken. [Jessica Park Photography]

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Joshua Lurie

Joshua Lurie founded FoodGPS in 2005. Read about him here.

Blog Comments

[…] Click through the captioned slideshow below to see just some of the highlights.[nggallery id=155]SLIDESHOW CONTINUED ON THE NEXT PAGE Share ThisArticle: Related Categories: Food Comments Bigmouth says: September 2, 2014 at […]

Argh, so bummed I missed this! The food in those pics looks incredible!

Next year fo sho…

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