“A Taste of Toccoa” Winners Announced

The results are in for this year’s “A Taste of Toccoa.”

Main Street Toccoa held the annual “Taste” awards ceremony on Friday at Toccoa City Hall.

This year’s People’s Choice Award, voted on by attendees at the WNEG Radio booth, went to Friends @ the Rebel for its Asian Chicken Taco.

Other awards were as follows:

Best Representation of Business
First Place – Toccoa Falls Culinary
Second Place – Domino’s

The Extra Mile Award
First Place – Camp Fire
Second Place – McDonald’s

“Taste” Award for Dessert
First Place – X-Factor Grill for Chocolate Peanut Butter Delight
Second Place – Sweetly Southern for Moonshine Cake

“Taste” Award for Menu Item
First Place – Java Station for Panini Italiano
Second Place – Shirley’s Sole Food for Butternut Squash

Most Tokens Collected
First Place – Just Right Catering with 3,610 tokens
Second Place – Domino’s – 2,472 tokens

Overall this year, 23,186 tokens were collected at “A Taste of Toccoa,” which took place on April 28.

That is an increase of more than 2,000 tokens from last year.

Toccoa Main Street Events Coordinator Sharon Crosby said moving the event back to Thursday this year seems to have brought back some of the crowd.

“We were a little surprised because we had many people ask us to have it on a Saturday, so last year, it was the 25th anniversary so we thought this would be a good time to try something different and actually it didn’t go as well as we had hoped and I think maybe because we had been doing it for 25 years on a Tuesday night, people were used to it,” said Crosby. “We were glad to see the crowds come back and the number of tokens sold pick up as well.”

Crosby once again took time to thank all of the businesses that participated and the volunteers that helped make this year’s “Taste” happen.