The event

This Year’s Event:

This year, Taste of the Nation took place on Sunday, May 18, 2003 at the beautiful Loews Coronado Bay Resort (map). The event ran from Noon to 4:00 PM.

Thanks to Accion San Diego’s David Andaleon, we have these great photos of the 2003 event:

Fine-tuning the main dish…

Perhaps a little pastry?

Mmmmmmmmm…

Posing with unique items from Specialty Produce

Mario Olivares and Latin Spice do it again!

Some iced vodka to go with that caviar?

Or how about some refreshing juice?

Perhaps something cool and blue!

Accion’s volunteers explain this beneficiary’s goals.

Last-minute scramble at the Silent Auction!

If you would like to attend or help out with next year’s Taste of the Nation, tentatively scheduled for May 16, 2004, please subscribe to our mailing list. Your email address will never be given, sold, or rented to anyone else (Taste of the Nation never serves spam!).

Here’s what you can look forward to:

Samples of mouth-watering cuisine from several dozen of San Diego’s finest restaurants.
Wines, beers, and spirits from local and national sources.
illy coffee, juices, waters, and other soft drinks
Live music. In 2003, everyone again enjoyed the music of Mario Olivares and Latin Spice.
At our Silent Auction, bid on fabulous dinners, resort weekends, bottles of fine wine, books, artworks, collectibles, services, and other unique items — all while knowing that 100% of your auction price will be distributed to hunger and poverty-relief charities such as Accion, RESULTS, and Los Niños.

Here are the restaurants and beverage purveyors who participated in 2003:

Atoll Room	Azul, La Jolla	Azzura Point	Ben & Jerry’s (Sysco)
Café Japengo	Coca Cola	Colors Gourmet Pizza	Coronado Brewing Co
El Bizcocho	Euro Pastry	Evian	Ferrari-Carano Winery
FRESH Seafood Restaurant	Hamilton Meats	Hash House a Go Go	Illy
Jakob Gerhardt Wines	Juice Evolution	Just Fabulous Pastries	Karl Strauss Brewery
L’Escale	Los Niños	Marine Room	Market Café
Naked Juice	Napa Valley Grill	Oenos Global, Inc.	On Tap Brewery
Orbit Earth Café	Pacifica Del Mar	Prince of Wales	Rice (at the W)
Roy’s	Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse	Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza	Saska’s
Seven	Specialty Produce	Stone Brewery	Taste of Africa
Tent City	Town and Country Hotel	Wine of the Month Club	Zibibbo