Taste of College Park - 2026

Rotary Club of College Park Foundation

Your local Rotary Club of College Park has brought together all of our best local restaurants, hand picked wines and craft beers!

Great Southern Box Company

<h3>We are excited to be back at The Great Southern Box Co. Food Hall &amp; Bar this year! Taste of College Park is THE LARGEST charity event in College Park and we can't wait to celebrate with you! Over 20 restaurants and counting, hand picked wines from Digress Wines, craft beers Ivanhoe Park Lager House, meads from Zymarium Meadery, spirit tastings from Forward/Slash Craft Distillery and Blending House, amazing silent auction items, and a 50/50 Raffle.</h3> <h3>The only this missing is you!</h3>

What Do Tickets Include? Tickets include food from 16+ of the best local restaurants from College Park and the surrounding area. Also included are craft beers from the Ivanhoe Park Lager House, hand selected wines from Digress Wines and our 2 newest vendors we are excited to announce, Zymarium Meadery and Forward/Slash Craft Distillery and Blending House! For those new to mead, it is actually the oldest form of alcohol and made from honey. Zymarium is home to not only the best meads in the country, but the WORLD! Forward/Slash is also an exciting new addition and will be providing a welcome cocktail to guests along with opportunity to sample some of their amazing products! What Does Buying A Table Include?Just like last year we are going bigger and better! This year we are offering VIP tables for groups. Tables purchases will include 10 tickets and offer guests a 'home base' for the event. The Vip table area will also have it's own allocated wine booth along with cash bar!If you have a group larger than 10 they can purchase their own tickets and are welcome to enjoy the night at your table as well.If you have any questions about the table please contact the host. Online/Silent AuctionDuring the event there will be an online/silent auction. Proceeds will go to charity partners of the Rotary Club of College Park. Below you will see just some of the amazing organizations we support. 50/50 RaffleAt 8:30 we will also be doing our drawing for our 50/50 Raffle! Proceeds from the raffle go to support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (DPIL). Imagination Library is an amazing program where a sponsor organization, like your Rotary Club of College Park, funds the delivery of books to children under the age of 5 years old to promote early childhood literacy at no cost to the family! We are proud to have sponsored children in our local communities right here in Orlando. We have 'adopted' the ZIP codes of 32808 (Pine Hills), 32810 (Rosemont), 32805 (Paramore), and our own 32804 (College Park).We are so proud be delivering over 875 books per month which means over 10,500 books per year. None of this would be possible without our local partners and you! Who is Hosting the Event?The Rotary Club of College Park is a local club of a world-wide organization with over 1.4 million members with the common goal of doing great things in our community!Your College Park Rotary Club has been here since 1986 and works on local community projects like delivering free books to children under 5 to promote early childhood literacy, contributions to charities like the ones listed below, scholarships to local students, roadway cleanups and much, much more!Taste of College Park is sponsored by the Rotary Club of College Park Foundation, Inc., a Florida 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation.

First held by the Rotary Club of College Park Foundation, Taste of College Park has become the largest charity event that takes place in College Park!Taste of College Park combines food, wine, beer, music, and an online/silent auction for an extraordinary evening in College Park. Twenty-one local restaurants and distributors provide food, beer, and wine. Local retailers supply items for the online/silent auction. College Park businesses and Rotary Club members sell over 400 tickets. Beneficiaries of the net proceeds from Taste of College Park include:• Ronald McDonald House - a home away from home for families whose children are hospitalized during a medical crisis.• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library - in cooperation with the Dollywood Foundation. Since 2012, our club has provided over 43,000 free books to children from birth to five years of age.• Christian Service Center – dedicated to preventing homelessness and combating poverty in our community.• One Heart for Women and Children – provides assistance to Central Florida families in crisis.• The Rotary Foundation - including the “End Polio Now Initiative.” Since 1988 there has been a 99.9% reduction in new cases of polio worldwide – in 2023 less than 10 cases worldwide.• Student of the Month Program - honoring students from four local schools each month - Edgewater High School, Bishop Moore Catholic High School, College Park Middle School, and St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School. and providing scholarships to students at two area high schools.• Rotary 4-Way Test Essay Scholarships – seniors from Edgewater High School and Bishop Moore Catholic High School receive scholarships for further study based on writing an essay on Rotary 4-Way Test and how it has or will impact their lives.For more information about Taste of College Park and the Rotary Club of College Park, go to <a href="https://rotarycollegepark.org/" title="https://rotarycollegepark.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://rotarycollegepark.org/</a>.

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