All floors of the San Francisco Design Center Galleria were abuzz with excitement on Monday, June 12, 2023, for this year’s Taste & Sip, an annual event celebrating the popular KQED program Check, Please! Bay Area. The show, now in its 18th season, launched in 2005 with a simple premise: to welcome local diners—not professional restaurant critics—to share their favorite Bay Area restaurants.
Host and San Francisco Bay Times columnist Leslie Sbrocco, along with reporter and coordinating producer Cecilia Phillips, audience engagement manager Coco Keevan, and other members of the Check Please! Bay Area team, warmly greeted and took photos with guests, including the Bay Times publishers who presented Sbrocco with a colorful Pride cake from Noe Valley Bakery.
More than 50 restaurants featured on the show and some of Sbrocco’s favorite local wineries came together for the celebration that showcased the flavorful diversity and heart of the Bay Area’s culinary community. The event is well-named, as guests were able to taste and sip their way throughout the Galleria.
The NomaD Band provided live music. A raffle, with some prizes worth thousands of dollars, led to squeals of happy joy from the rafters as winners heard their names being called by Phillips and Sbrocco. The charismatic host rocked Elton John-inspired “bubble boots” for the memorable evening.
Watch Check, Please! Bay Area on KQED 9 and check out KQED’s live summer events: https://www.kqed.org/events
Published on June 22, 2023
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