Food and Beverage Vendors

Food and Beverage Vendors.

The Capital Pride Festival provides your restaurant or catering business a great opportunity to engage an audience that is the largest and most diverse in the national Capital Region.  It also provides a one of a kind backdrop that is on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the U.S. Capitol.  The 2013 festival will take place on Sunday, June 9, 2013 from 12pm – 7pm.

Application - all food vendor slots are full for 2013.  Email festival@capitalpride.org to check wait list status).
All interested food vendors must apply to participate as spaces are limited and sell out quickly.  Please note that selling alcoholic beverages of any kind is strictly prohibited.  Application acceptance will be announced in March.  

Taste @ Pride

Taste AT Pride provides your restaurant or catering business an opportunity to promote your signature dish at our VIP tasting experience inside the Nellie’s Beverage Garden.  Restaurants are required to provide 500 ‘tasting’ size samples to T@P in exchange for promotion on the website, mobile app and Pride Guide.  7 out of 15 possible openings are still available (as of May 1).

Ticketholders can expect a VIP experience with tastings from micro-brews and Barefoot Wines.

Registration  - (another link will be provided if you’re accepted for the 2013 festival) 

If your business has been selected to participate you will be contacted and instructed to register.  Your registration fees will be based on the date your application was submitted.

Terms & Conditions

All vendors applying to serve at the Capital Pride Festival, must agree and abide by the Terms and Conditions set forth at this link.