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Birthday highlights include 53 restaurants and food trucks, Cheers to 35 Years Kellerbier, Iron Chef Chef Marc Forgione on the Culinary Stage, expanded footprint on Delaware Ave. past Chippewa to Johnson Park

The Taste of Buffalo presented by TOPS today announced that Chef Marc Forgione will appear at the festival for a live cooking demonstration on Saturday, July 7 at 12 p.m. One of the Iron Chefs on Food Network's "Iron Chef America," Forgione is also a restaurateur and cookbook author.

To support local high school seniors in pursuit of higher education in the foodservice and hospitality industries, the Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops has awarded seven students with a collective $8,500 to be applied toward their college educations. These scholarships are possible thanks to generous donations by the Taste's event coordinator and Taste sponsor partner Smithfield Foods, along with purchases made by festival-goers at the annual food festival.

The Taste of Buffalo presented by TOPS today announced the complete lineup of restaurants, food trucks, and wineries that will participate in the 2018 food festival, which takes place July 7 and 8 in downtown Buffalo. Fifty-three restaurants along with six local wineries will be onsite this year for the Taste's 35th birthday celebration.

Tops Friendly Markets and the Taste of Buffalo are pleased to announce that Cecilia Brooks, a talented 15-year-old artist from Williamsville, N.Y. is the grand prize winner of the 2018 Taste of Buffalo Tops Poster Art contest.

The Taste of Buffalo presented by TOPS today announced that an amber kellerbier brewed by Adam Akers of Buffalo won best of show in the 2018 Taste of Buffalo Homebrew Competition. Cheers to 35 Years Kellerbier will be recreated on a larger scale by 12 Gates Brewing Company and available for purchase at the Taste on July 7 and 8.

The Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops ("the Taste") is now accepting applications for its annual scholarship program to support Western New York-area high school seniors in pursuit of higher education in the foodservice and hospitality industries. This year's program will award seven scholarship winners with a collective $8,500 to be applied toward their college educations.

The Taste of Buffalo presented by TOPS today announced details of a Homebrew Competition to kick off the organization's 35th birthday celebration in 2018. The winning recipe will be brewed by 12 Gates Brewing Company and available for purchase at the 2018 Taste of Buffalo on July 7 and 8.

Richard McDermott, retired Operations Manager for Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), has been elected 2018 chair of the Taste of Buffalo presented by TOPS. The 35th annual Taste, the nation's largest two-day food festival, will take place on July 7 and 8, 2018 along Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo.

The Taste of Buffalo presented by TOPS announced today that the organization donated $2,500 to the Food Bank of WNY through the Food 2 Families Food and Fund Drive sponsored in part by Tops Friendly Markets. This donation was made possible thanks to the purchases of festival-goers at the event last July.

The Taste of Buffalo presented by TOPS announced today that the organization donated $5,000 to the New York regional office of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC/NY). A check was presented at NCMEC/NY's annual DISH IT OUT fundraising event on October 20 at Salvatore's Italian Gardens. This donation was made possible thanks to purchases made by Taste festival-goers at the event last July, and it will help to fund critical services for families in Western New York.