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Portland's No. 1 French Festival is in the News; featuring The Carol Rossio Quintet performing from 1:15pm to 2:00pm, right before the Waiters Race!!!
Portland's Bastille festival, one of the largest on the West Coast, will feature a weeklong schedule of exciting events, culminating in the July 11 festival in Jamison Park and the 5th Annual Portland Waiters Race. AAA's Via Magazine highlights the festival in their July issue. Travel Portland is doing Twitter feeds about it. KGW Channel 8 will film a news segment at the tartes culinary event leading up to the fête. The Oregonian and the Portland Tribune are writing about the great food booths that will feature French-influenced cuisine such as: Fenouil's booth will offer merguez sandwiches, pommes frites and paella. St. Honoré Boulangerie's booth will feature chouquettes and as well as house-made ice cream. OBA's booth will tantalize attendees with margarita-flavored chilled shrimp cocktails. La Provence will feature French specialties such as palmiers, brioches, and pain au chocolat. MetroVino will offer salade niçoise with wild salmon confit. Chez Joly will feature mussels and Nuvrei will offer fresh scones, croissants and watermelon. These and other vendors will be open from noon to 8:00 p.m. at the Bastille festival in Jamison Park on Saturday, July 11.