Guaranteed to be Empori-YUMMMY
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DC’s Annual Pop-Up Food Market is Right Around the Corner
Photography by Farrah Skeiky
Food adventurers alert. Get ready to be all in for the The Emporiyum coming November 9-11, 2018 at Dock5 @ Union Market in Washington, DC. The Emporiyum is a one-of-a-kind food marketplace featuring handmade food items from around the country. It’s the perfect opportunity to try new things and purchase gifts and top-quality products from a lineup of artisans you won’t find anywhere else.
This year’s EmporiYUM will feature over seven dozen food and drink vendors from around the DMV and all over the nation. Vendors who have been crowd favorites are coming back include DC’s Fluffness and Timber Pizza, Coco & Co. and Chickn’Cone from New York, and Bon Bon Bon and Dave’s Sweet Tooth of Detroit (among many others). Timber Pizza will be tag teaming The Emporiyum this year with their friends at Call Your Mother Deli.
Chickn’Cone, a start-up franchise from NYC which features bite-size fried chicken in a waffle. How can you resist?
Hannah and Stuart Hudson, Emporiyum’s co-directors, are excited to kick off this year’s event with a new Friday Night Preview Party Presented by @DCFOODPORN. This ticket includes first access to The Emporiyum on Friday, November 9 starting at 6pm. Also, it is a chance to meet and learn from Justin Schuble, the man behind @DCFOODPORN, DMV's most followed food account. The Friday Night Preview Party includes access to ALL Emporiyum vendors before anyone else, free drinks, passed bites and special activities from vendors. Decorate cakes with Buttercream Bakeshop, mix drinks with Modern Bar Cart, learn how to select and identify wines with Siptip (and more)! The Friday Night Preview Party is limited to 750 people designed to have shorter lines, less crowds and more time to eat, meet and shop.
VIP ticket holders gain first access to The Emporiyum on Saturday or Sunday starting at 10am. The special VIP hour from 10-11am includes passed bites, cocktail sips and a gift bag filled with fun food treats. VIP is limited to 750 people in the exclusive VIP hour, so shorter lines and more time to sample. General Admission ticket holders will be able to enter at three timed entries of 11AM, 12:30PM and 1:30PM and get the full Emporiyum market experience.
On the drinks menu, beer lovers can taste the creations of Black Narrows Brewing Co. of Chincoteague Island, VA. Cider fanatics can taste the variety provide by Vermont’s Eden Specialty Ciders and DC’s Don Ciccio e Figli will be bringing a wide selection of Amari, an Italian liqueur. Republic Restoratives, One-Eight Distilling, Virginia Distillery Co. will also be showcasing their craft spirits. For beverages of the non-alcoholic variety, SAP! of Burlington, VT will be at The Emporiyum for their first event in the mid-Atlantic and showing their carbonated beverages made from pure maple and birch tree sap. Lost Sock Roasters will have coffee warm coffee and Blue Ridge Bucha will sampling their craft kombucha.
Dozens of new faces to are coming to this year’s Emporiyum market, including:
2018 Vendors
From the DMV and all over the U.S., food artisans will meet at Dock 5 for a tasting and shopping showcase November 5-7
Complete List of Vendors:
Ajwa Delicacies
Ayoba-Yo
Bad Pickle Tees
Bakefully Yours
Black Narrows Brewery
Blue Ridge Bucha
Bon Bon Bon
Buffalo and Bergen
Bun'd Up
Burnt & Salty
Buttercream Bakeshop
Cake Club
Callie's Biscuits
Chickn'Cone
Cleveland Kraut
Coco and Co
Colada Shop
Cozy Tea Pot
Cream Cruiser
Crude Bitters
Cucina Al Volo
Dave's Sweet Tooth
DCFOODPORN
Don Ciccio
Dough Boy Fresh
Eden Cider
Element Shrub
FireFly Farms Creamery
Fluffness
Found Market Co.
Greenheart Juice
Hare Hollow
Hiatus Cheesecake
Hollow Work
Hubert's Lemonade
Inwego
Ice Cream Jubilee
Iron Paffles
La Vache Microcreamery
Lei Musubi
Little Miss Whoopie Pie
Lost Sock Roasters
Lubanzi Wines
Maketto
Maryland Chickan
Modern Bar Cart
M'Panadas
Navy Hill
Neighborgoods
Nicecream
Not Joe Mama's BBQ Sauce
One Eight Distilling
Petit Pot
Pisco y Nazca Ceviche Gastrobar
Popcorn Queens
Q Caterers
Ramen Burger
Relish Market
Republic Restoratives
Revol Snax
Righteous Felon Jerky
Runamok Maple
SAP!
Sasya
Shouk
SipTip
South Mountain Creamery
Spot of Tea
Sunday in Saigon
Sweet Sticks
Swizzler
The Dough Jar
The Village Cafe
Timber Pizza/Call Your Mother
Trade Street Jam Co.
Trader Joes
True Chesapeake Oyster
True Made Foods Inc.
TRUE Syrups & Garnishes (Standard Cocktail)
Truffleist
Undercover Quinoa
UZU
Virginia Distillery Company
What the Cluck Farms
Whisked
White Envelope Arepas
Woot Granola
Zest Tea
Zesty Z
Ticket prices are are required for entry and range from $15-80.
All Access: $80
Friday Night Preview Party: $50
VIP Saturday or Sunday: $40
Early General Admission: $25
Late General Admission: $15
Tickets are available on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-emporiyum-dc-2018-tickets-47224558927 and for general information go to, theemporiyum.com
Event date and times:
Friday Night Preview Party Presented by @DCFOODPORN: 6PM-8PM
Saturday: 10AM-4PM
Sunday: 10AM-4PM
Event location:
Dock5 @ Union Market, 1309 5th St NE, Washington, DC 20002
