{"id":832,"date":"2017-05-05T00:11:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=832"},"modified":"2017-05-05T02:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T06:18:00","slug":"toms-river-food-fest-to-be-held-this-weekend-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/05\/toms-river-food-fest-to-be-held-this-weekend-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Food Fest to be Held This Weekend &#8216;With a Twist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_833\" style=\"width: 1031px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-833\" class=\"size-full wp-image-833\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM.png\" alt=\"Toms River Food Fest (File Photo)\" width=\"1021\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM.png 1021w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM-648x420.png 648w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM-341x220.png 341w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM-640x415.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM-681x442.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toms River Food Fest (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River\u2019s annual Food Fest will take place this weekend downtown, featuring\u00a0a variety of gourmet food trucks, arts and crafts and\u00a0vendor booths, children\u2019s rides and live entertainment from four great bands.<\/p>\n<p>Guests can\u00a0sample barbeque, seafood, empanadas, gyros, seafood and more. Those with a sweet tooth\u00a0can snack on funnel cake, fried Oreos and cupcakes.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond food, guests can also go shopping as the festival includes a number of businesses and vendors with merchandise for sale this year, organizers said. For the younger crowd, there will be kid-friendly rides, a rock climbing wall and face-painting. The children\u2019s rides are provided as a free attraction, sponsored by Pine Belt Automotive. The event will also feature DJs from Greater Media, 100.1 WJRZ and 95.9 WRAT, who will be emcees on the stage throughout the day. They will have prizes and giveaways at their booth<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToms River Food Fest offers something for everyone; live music, gourmet food from great food trucks, free kids rides and shopping,\u201d said Toms River Recreation Director Jared Tate. \u201cThe event grows bigger every year. We are hoping for nice weather and a great turnout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. along Washington Street. A rain date has been set for Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/05\/toms-river-food-fest-to-be-held-this-weekend-with-a-twist\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River\u2019s annual Food Fest will take place this weekend downtown, featuring\u00a0a variety of gourmet food trucks, arts and crafts and\u00a0vendor booths, children\u2019s rides and live entertainment from four great bands. Guests can\u00a0sample barbeque, seafood, empanadas, gyros, seafood and more. Those with a sweet tooth\u00a0can snack on funnel cake, fried Oreos and cupcakes. Beyond food, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[325,11],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-life","tag-food-fest-2017","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-2.16.43-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}