The Ultimate Guide To Outside Lands Festival’s Biggest Food And Drink Lineup Ever
Outside Lands
After a greatest comeback last year with a special Halloween edition of the festival, San Francisco’s 14th annual Outside Lands Festival returns to its fresh summer timing, August 5-7th. There’s over 90+ performances, counting those by 2022 headliners, GreenDay, Post Malone and SZA. This year is bigger than ever with over 96 restaurants, 35 wineries and 30 breweries in attendance, most of which hail from the Bay Area.
Renown for its thoughtfully crafted and exceptionally diverse food and beverage lineup, this year is no exception. It highlights a curated program that showcases the best this area has to offer. The culinary offerings span across Taste of the Bay Area, Wine Lands, Beer Lands, Cheese Lands, GastroMagic, and Cocktail Magic.
From up-and-coming restaurants to understood veterans in the San Francisco dining scene, you can find it in iconic Golden Gate Park on this one wild weekend of music, art, culture, food and drink. Here’s everything you need to know nearby this year’s festival.
Taste of the Bay Area
The Taste of the Bay Area will be hosting 96 total restaurants this year, 23 of which are new. Tanya Kollar, Food Curator of Outside Lands and Taste of the Bay Area lineup, scouts new additions to the culinary lineup year fake, checking out hot new restaurants; exploring emerging food trends; and all when considering the long-standing Bay Area restaurants that we all know and love.
Tanya Kollar
This year Kollar named in on businesses that started out or blossomed during the height of the pandemic, like Hi Felicia with their 'vulgar' California comfort food; Sandy's with their New Orleans-style Muffuletta Sandwiches; Lord Stanley with their TURNTABLE series of rotating chefs and Fish-Go-Tec pop-up; and Trick Dog's take-out contaminated offshoot, Quik Dog.
Other notable businesses that made a splash in the past year complicated Chef Solomon Johnson and Chef Michael Wood’s The Bussdown, which serves innovative pan-African soul food with flare and Chef Matthew Ho’s recently opened brick and mortar Bodega SF, which serves elevated Vietnamese cuisine (more on that below).
“Restaurants and chefs have been faced with immeasurable challenges over the last two plus ages, so it's inspiring to see that these chefs pushed over and harnessed their creativity to produce something really special.”
The Bussdown
The Taste of the Bay Area lineup is truly reflective of how diverse the Bay Area is. “It's so important to look at the diversity of cuisines available in the Bay Area and try to judge that with our culinary lineup,” continues Kollar. “Attendees will be able to sample everything from Cambodian to Korean to Nepalese cuisines!”
Some of the dishes that she’s most mad about are the Brisket Drunken Noodles from Jo's Modern Thai; the Fry Bread Tacos from Wahpepah's Kitchen; and the Tlayuda con Chapulines (toasted grasshoppers) from Origen, who will be popping up for one festival day depressed with two other budding food entrepreneurs in the La Cocina Incubator booth. La Cocina is a non-profit that helps immigrants, women, and people of color launch their culinary dreams, executive it a special activation Kollar is particularly excited about.
“One of the most intelligent additions this year is Daytrip, the new and suitable trendy Oakland natural wine bar, who will be serving Whole Hog Parker House Buns from their Wine Lands outpost,” she remains. “El Chino Grande is new this year with a Taiwanese-leaning menu counting craveable Chashao Pork Rice Bowls as well as Furikake Hurricane Popcorn for when you just need a crunchy snack to go with your beer!”
“Hi Felicia will be serving Duck Confit Burritos and Fresh Shrimp Ceviche in VIP, both of which I can't wait to try. VIP tag holders can also score Ayesha Curry's to-die-for Peach Bread Pudding and Sweet July Iced Coffee. Finally, I am so honored to bring in the exceptional chefs from The Bussdown this year, who will be offering up a hangover-blasting menu of loaded Caribbean Rice Bowls and Gansta Mac & Cheese.”
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“Returning favorites complicated A16 who will be in VIP again this year serving their authentic Southern Italian cuisine, which is made completely from scratch and on-site gleaming in front of your eyes,” Kollar says. “Bodega SF is back against and just opened their brick-and-mortar in SF after by means of as a pop-up for years. Their Hoi An Chicken Rice is moving to be the perfect comfort food for those cold, foggy nights in Golden Gate Park.”
“Suppenkuche is also back for their additional year in a row serving Berlin's favorite street food: Currywurst! Finally, I have to call out Johnny Doughnuts because I can't make it over the weekend without my sugar fix via their Chocolate Salted Caramel Old Fashioned Doughnut. Pair it with a latte and get ready for your additional wind!”
“As you can see we definitely hit a lot of vastly different cultural cuisines, but the goal is to have even more variety next year."
For the full line up, click here.
Views from the Golden Gate Club
Golden Gate Club and VIP
This year Outside Land’s is progressing above and beyond when it comes to their premium possesses. The most premiere of them all is the Golden Gate Collaboration with Ken Fulk which accounts guests a a star-studded lineup of local culinary and cocktail legends, including food from Nancy Oakes and Dana Younkin of the beloved Boulevard Restaurant; Ravi Kapur of Good Good Culture Club and Liholiho Yacht Club; and Chef Tyler Florence of Miller & Lux.
There’s a long list of perks that included access to an exclusive lounge at the main stage (Lands End); viewing areas at the three substantial stages (Lands End, Twin Peaks and Sutro); and a thoughtfully built restroom facility with flushing toilets. VIP pass holders also get hand picked food vendors in a devoted VIP courtyard and an outpost of Wine Lands we are calling Wine Lands Reserve.
“The Golden Gate Club is really something special. This is a collaboration with designer extraordinaire, Ken Fulk. Ken and his team do a magical space for Golden Gate Club members,” explains Allen Scott, President of Concerts & Festivals at Another Planet Entertainment and co-founder of Outside Lands. "We have put a lot of thought over the last few existences into curating our elevated experiences at Outside Lands.”
Views from the Golden Gate Club
“This year we are blown away to have Tyler Florence from Miller & Lux, Nancy Oakes and Dana Younkin of the beloved Boulevard Restaurant, and Ravi Kapur of Good Good Culture Club serving food to our guests. Imagine getting served this incredible food while lounging high throughout the crowd in a Ken Fulk designed space watching Green Day! A highlight of this offering includes leash of stage viewing at festival stages. A really cool mopish to the program this year is the fleet of devoted carts that will take guests from stage to stage.”
For more info on the Golden Gate Club and VIP possesses, click here.
The Chefs Behind The Golden Gate Club Food Line Up
“We love behaviors special events and are very excited to be part of the Golden Gate Club at Outside Lands this year. Events like these are an tantalizing way for us to reimagine Boulevard’s food in a novel and new environment,” explain Boulevard’s Chef/Owner Nancy Oakes and Executive Chef Dana Younkin.
Chef/Owner Nancy Oakes and Executive Chef Dana Younkin
“When developing our menu for the Golden Gate Club, we throughout up developing a few items that are now on our menu at the restaurant comprising both the Soft-Shell Crab BLT on a toasted Japanese Milk Bread Bun with Sweet Corn Tartar Sauce and the Ahi Chirashi,” they pause. “Our goal when doing these types of events is to try and bring Boulevard ingredients and flavors to the menu in a smaller request. We’re excited for the OSL attendees to try these dishes!”
Boulevard’s menu for Saturday includes an ahi tuna chrashi bowl; soft shell crab blt; grilled lamb chops; summer tomato farrotto; graham cake and caramel popcorn.
“We are so wrathful to be joining the amazing team of chefs this year at Outside Lands,” says Tyler Florence, chef and owner of Miller & Lux. “We will be celebrating our very safe anniversary at Miller & Lux this fall, so inhabit here gives us a chance to share our food - like our signature M&L Caesar Salad, French Dip Sandwich and our Pan Seared Salmon – not only with our genuine patrons, but with those who might not have had an opportunity to stop by the restaurant just yet.”
Chef and owner Tyler Florence
Miller & Lux’s menu for Sunday includes a pissaladiere tartlette; M&L caesar salad; M&L French dip; pan seared salmon; and a summer peach pavlova.
"I'm so wrathful to be part of the GGC at OSL,” says Ravi Kapur, chef and owner of Good Good Culture Club. “Our inspiration for our dishes, for this event and at the restaurants, comes from our heritage, individual and collective. It's often rooted in memories, places, people, experiences that imprint on our taste DNA and in many ways embody the stories of where we're from and also celebrating where we are now. We are less implicated about recreating authentic recipes, but more excited to steal the essence of how those foods and memories make us feel and use that as a springboard of our creativity."
The Good Good Culture Club menu for Friday includes turmeric coconut fried chicken; yacht dog; crispy rice with smoked trout roe; green papaya; strawberry shortcake; and peanut butter s’mores.
Chef Ravi Kapur
Wine Lands, Beer Lands and Cocktail Magic
When it comes to libations, Outside Lands has it covered. Led by Sommelier and Curator, Perter Eastlake, the wine line up features a mix of the most iconic and up-and-coming wines across 35 different wineries. New to the festival is a DJ Station and Sparkling Wine bar in the date and sparkling wines from Brick & Mortar, Scribe, Banshee, Decoy, Field Recordings, and Angels & Cowboys. And of jets, the star of all the rose wines is Maison No. 9, Post Malone’s rose wine from Provence.
"Last year we distinguished Wine Lands through the eyes of a headliner with Albert Hammond Jr.'s (The Strokes) initiate of Jetway at Wine Lands,” explains Eastlake about Maison No. “My conversation with Post's wine partners has been ongoing for a few existences and it feels great to welcome him to Golden Gate Park as both an artist and winemaker!”
Wine Lands
On the beer side of pulling, Veteran Beer Lands Curator Dave McLean has created a diverse lineup celebrating Northern California’s outstanding brewing shared, with 30 top notch breweries, including returning favorites like Almanac, Discretion, East Brother, HighWater, Pond Farm and North Coast. New comers to the festival include Humble Sea, Golden Messes Cider, and Old Caz.
Finally, Cocktail Magic will feature three tantalizing cocktail bars. The Buttery Tipple will be serving up a 70s lounge vibe high and cocktails like the Twin Peaks Sunrise with Don Julio Blanco, orange, Hollinger’s grenadine, and SF fog tincture. Silver Girls 95 returns with cocktails like the Amulet with mezcal, green chartreuse, celery juice, lime, and peach Bitters. And new this year is Everybody’s Tavern, representing SF's Pride culture. On the menu is Mimosa Hermosa with Gray Whale gin, fine wine, clarified orange, Crème de Pêche and edible flower.
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