South Florida Garlic Fest

Garlic fest in Wellington was just OK! Big problem was parking! ONLY 30 handicapped parking spaces and were full at 11am. Garlic fest is for people to buy food and eat. Very limited seating of tables to sit and eat! They are just after the $$$$$$$ when you spend $10 per person to get in and then $10-12 for small portions of garlic spend $80 on two not real happy with the whole thing!

Great festival. I had lots of fun. The festival 2021 was actually near a mall. It was in Wellington. They had nice air-condition
Air-conditioned shuttles to help with the parking issues. The bus driver checked for temperature as you got in.
They had a weapons check and mask at the entrance. Everthing was pretty smooth and nice.
The food was delightful. A little pricey. The conbination out of this world good. There where local artists and venders. There staff was cool.
A lived band was playing. I enjoyed the music. I thought it was pretty good.

Nice Wellington location. Due to Covid there were no rides. They still charged $10 admission per adult. The food looked delicious but pricey. A lot of vendors to choose from. We didn’t stay for the live music but it was a nice walk.

Huge Event. Lots of Alcohol flowing. Didn't want to wait in those lines. But it Helped with the party atmosphere for sure. Long lines for food so we grabbed pretzels only. Saw some beautiful dogs there so that was nice to see. We will definitely bring ours next time. We didn't know pets were allowed. If you took the bus they screened your temp. Lot is 1/2 mile away so many just walked. Lots of vendors. They made announcements to wear masks. We did see about 50- 60% of people had them on and many of the vendors wore them too. Bring camping chairs or just sit on the lawn for the music. We had to leave our larger chairs in the car as we could not take them on the bus. Wish they rented chairs for guests to use. If you love food, booze, party atmosphere, and and lots of people, you will love this event. No rides this year so not to many kids there. We liked the boxes marked on the lawn. Wish they limited the amount of guests in at a time but that would be hard to do. We will pass next year. Kudos to the owners of this event. Im sure they worked hard and they definitely reaped the benefits with that kind of turnout. Here are some photos of the band and performance area.

$20 to park! And parking lot is not even close to the event! $12 to get in? Unbelievable! I mean is not like you are going to a concert! Special when you are going to spend money inside. OVERPRICED! NO THANK YOU

The food and shopping were excellent. The bands were pretty good. The DJ was terrible. Dead air, stuttering, talking about nonsense and bad choice of songs really defined this washed up old dj.

Very disappointing, no garlic products to purchase. Lots of non garlic items like jewelry and clothing. Only garlic was in the over priced prepared food made with garlic, But no one was selling garlic like they do at other garlic festivals in NY and VT. Pay for entrance and then pay more for parking.

Gourmet Alley pretty good overall, but variable from booth to booth. Chef demos and school demos great in earlier years, not there this year! Website sends you to Rose parking lot at Palm Beach St Coll, then various bad signs send you to the Lake Worth lot. Update the website! Should be some info about the charities supported by the event. Dumb stuff- backpacks prohibited (people sent from bus to put back in cars) but being sold in some booths.