Name:
2025 Taste of Lawrence
Date:
November 6, 2025
Time:
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM CST
Registration:
Register Now
Event Description:
For over 40 years, Taste of Lawrence has been held annually to honor our local educators and showcase some of our community's finest food and beverage establishments.
Always a great time, the event is aptly named as those in attendance are truly offered a taste of the Lawrence community.
New for 2025 - Meet other local businesses and get a larger "taste" of all that Lawrence has to offer.
Ticket Prices*$10 Teachers/Educators
$20 Noneducator
*Your ticket price includes an event brochure, map of the event, samples from 25 food and beverage vendors, and live entertainment & games!
***We ask that this event be 21+***
Tickets for Admission may be picked up at The Chamber Office (718 New Hampshire St) prior to the event starting on October 29.
Please call (785) 865-4411 prior to picking up your tickets as the staff may be out at an event.
Tickets for Admission may also be picked up onsite at the Registration "Will Call" tent. Will Call tickets will be listed under the name they were purchased.
Interested in becoming a sponsor or food and beverage vendor?
Contact Jared Martin at JMartin@LawrenceChamber.com to reserve your spot! (View all of the opportunities below!)
***Please note - Deadline to be included on event signage and marketing for vendors AND sponsors is end of business day October 24.
- Dedicated booth in center of event space
- Ad on main foldout of event map
- 25 tickets
HEAD OF CLASS - $2250
- Logo recognition on event marketing
- Ad within event map
- 1 vendor spot
- 15 tickets
- Logo recognition on event marketing and page
- Logo at the top of the backside of the swag bag
- 1 vendor spot
- 6 tickets
HONOR ROLL - $1500
- Logo recognition on event marketing
- Ad in event map
- 1 vendor spot
- 10 tickets
NEW! EDUCATOR GIFT - $1000
- Logo recognition on event page
- Logo recognition on signage for educator gift
- 1 vendor spot
- 6 tickets
FOOD AND BEVERAGE VENDOR BOOTH - FREE for current Chamber members
- 2 tables and space (10'x10')
- Logo on signage at the event
- Business name on event webpage and occasional marketing
- Click here for Vendor Guidelines
- Click here for Vendor Application
BUSINESS VENDOR BOOTH - $200 for current Chamber members
- 2 tables and space (10'x10')
- Logo on signage at the event
- Business name on event webpage and occasional marketing
- Click here for Vendor Guidelines
- Click here for Vendor Application
Thank you to a few of our event partners - UNeek Events for the tables AND Fully Promoted for assisting with the Taste of Lawrence swag bags.
Event Media:
Event Sponsors:
Media Sponsor
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Swag Bag Sponsor
Honor Roll
Water Station
School Sponsor
Food and Beverage Vendor
- Brain Freeze Daiquiri Shop
- Crown Distributors, L.L.C.
- Dempsey's Burger Pub
- Eileen's Colossal Cookies
- Fields & Ivy Brewery
- Free State Brewing Co., Inc.
- J. Wilson's Restaurant
- O'Malley Beverage of Kansas, Inc.
- Paul's Better Bakery
- Perkins Family Restaurant & Bakery
- Pickleman's Gourmet Cafe
- Q39 Restaurant
- Smallcakes Kansas, LLC
- Standard Beverage
- Taco John's - Haskell Ave.
- That Gelato and Sorbetto Guy
- The Eldridge
- Uplift Coffee Shop
- WheatFields Bakery Cafe
Business Vendor
- Central Bank - South Iowa
- Coleman Worldwide Moving, Agent for Allied Van Lines
- Douglas County CASA, Inc.
- Douglas County Visiting Nurses Association
- eXplore Lawrence
- First State Bank & Trust of Lawrence
- Friends of The Topeka Zoo
- Harvesters
- Home Instead
- Kansas Spray Foam Insulation, LLC
- KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
- Lawrence Breakfast Optimist Club
- Lawrence Habitat for Humanity and ReStore
- Lawrence Police Department
- Lawrence Public Schools
- Lawrence Schools Foundation and LEAP
- Midco
- New Heights Therapy
- Outcast Church
- Positive Bright Start
- Primerica
- PROSOCO, Inc.
- Sam Goodell Agency- Farm Bureau Financial Services
- Signature Cleaning, LLC
- Speech Solutions, LLC
- Sylvan Learning of Lawrence Kansas
- Top Gun Concrete Lifting
- U.S. Bank
- Vanguard Elite Security LLC
- Woof's Play & Stay
- YellowBug Creative
Event Sponsors:
Dean's List
Location:
Douglas County Fairgrounds
Open Pavilion
21st and Harper Street
Open Pavilion
21st and Harper Street
Date/Time Information:
This event is drop in style so come and go as you please!
Contact Information:
Jared Martin, Director of Events, The Chamber
Fees/Admission:
ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSES TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 AT 5PM.
TICKETS FOR ADMISSION MAY BE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE (CASH PREFERRED, CREDIT, CHECK) AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE EVENT.
$10 Teachers/Educators
$20 Noneducators
Tickets for Admission may be picked up at The Chamber Office (718 New Hampshire St) on Oct. 29. Please call prior to picking up your tickets as the staff may be out at an event.
Tickets for Admission may also be picked up onsite at the Registration/Will Call.
We appreciate your attendance and support of our fantastic educators!
*This event will occur - rain or shine. In the event of severe weather, the event may be cancelled.
We will not reschedule this event and appreciate your understanding that we do not offer refunds*
This is a 21 and over event.
Pets/animals not allowed.
TICKETS FOR ADMISSION MAY BE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE (CASH PREFERRED, CREDIT, CHECK) AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE EVENT.
$10 Teachers/Educators
$20 Noneducators
Tickets for Admission may be picked up at The Chamber Office (718 New Hampshire St) on Oct. 29. Please call prior to picking up your tickets as the staff may be out at an event.
Tickets for Admission may also be picked up onsite at the Registration/Will Call.
We appreciate your attendance and support of our fantastic educators!
*This event will occur - rain or shine. In the event of severe weather, the event may be cancelled.
We will not reschedule this event and appreciate your understanding that we do not offer refunds*
This is a 21 and over event.
Pets/animals not allowed.
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