We’ll take the Pepsi challenge on this one, but no music festival in the country has a better food and drink experience than Outside Lands . The San Francisco massive has led the way in taking a hyperlocal approach with the offerings at the fest, which takes place this year from August 8-10 at Golden Gate Park . What you get at the Outside Lands is a marvelous reflection of San Francisco and the Bay’s world-class dining and nightlife scene.

Tanya Kollar has been curating the food vendor lineup at Outside Lands for nearly a decade, and she’s damn good at it, too. Of the 95 different food businesses at the festival, 85% of them are BIPOC or women-owned, which is an amazing representation of the multi-cultural food scene in San Francisco, Oakland, and the greater Bay Area.

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