Author: Bailey Messner

          This year, Main Street Wooster is once again hosting Ten Weeks of Tasty. Last year, the event was centered around Wooster’s local food restaurants. The spotlight this year will still be on downtown restaurants but will also include specialty beverage places.

           As stated in the name, the event will run for ten weeks, and will be taking place from February 24th till April 29th. Each week of the event, Main Street Wooster will be highlighting one beverage and one food business. Each Thursday, a food business will be the focus, and each Friday it will be centered around a drink business. Each shop that participates will have a discount or specialty item that will be available during their tasty date.

The participating food businesses are BayLobsters Café & Fish Market, Broken Rocks, Buehler’s Towne Market Cafe, City Square Steakhouse, Local Roots, Omaha Bob’s Barbeque, Salsaroja, Spoon Market, The Leaf, and Your Pizza Shop.

The beverage shops that are participating are, Boba Bowl, Bowman Beverage, Dino’s Drive Thru, JAFB Brewery, Meathead’s Union, Minglewood Distilling Co, Sure House Coffee, Tulipan, Undergrounds Cafe, and Wooster Nutrition.

 Each week the two new businesses will spin their own take on the Ten Weeks of Tasty, and while the ten weeks are far from over, the businesses who have already participated have offered some great specials, and deals. On Thursday February 24th, BayLobsters Café & Fish Market had Fish-n-Chips with beer battered fries, hushpuppies, and coleslaw for 9.99$ (which was three dollars cheaper). Boba Bowl gave out free handmade mochi with the purchase of any bubble tea.

 The second business highlighted in March, Bowman Beverage, had a sale of two dozen packs of Pepsi for nine dollars. Broken Rocks offered a three-course meal for $22. Buehler’s Towne Market Cafe sold classic Reubens and French fries for $7.77, and Dino’s Drive Thru is also offering two packs of a dozen Pepsi for nine dollars.

 The Ten Weeks of Tasty also creates the possibility for winning 100 downtown dollars. Twenty businesses, in total, are participating in the event, but you only need to make a purchase from at least five to be entered in the drawing. On Main Street Wooster’s website, on the Ten Weeks of Tasty page (located under the events tab), is the link to the passport. For each business that you shop at during their highlighted day, have an employee of the business mark your passport. Once you have five or more businesses marked on your card, and your passport is turned into Main Street Wooster, your name is put into the drawing. All passports must be turned in by May 2nd, 2022, to be eligible for the prize.

If you are wanting to take advantage of some of the tasty dates, you can also go to the Ten Weeks of Tasty page to find the schedule for each shop’s day. But if you’re looking for the specific discounts and sales, then make sure to check Main Street Wooster’s social media accounts on both Facebook and Instagram for the sale releases on the week of. You can feel free to tag Main Street Wooster in any posts from the tasty dates, and all are welcome to come and support our local businesses and participate in the community.