Festival International

It is of my opinion that you MUST get the crawfish Mac and cheese bread bowl from Pops. They also do nice refreshing cocktails, which you may as well get since you stand in line so long for the Mac.




They have a craft beer garden every year, so finding decent beer shouldn’t be an issue.

Best bet for good beer (tied to fest) is the Festival Craft Biergarten, conveniently almost nearly across the street from the Wurst Biergarten (which will likely be packed and require a cover).

If you're going to be hitting up the festival drink tents, and the official festival merch tents (t-shirts/posters/etc.), I'd recommend pre-registering for the RFID wristband account before festival starts.

Link to register/set up digital wallet.

When you show up to pick up the free wristband, all you need to do after pre-registering is go link your wristband to your account in their website.

This is replacing their old physical tickets system where you purchase tickets and exchange tickets for drinks. Gonna make lines really fast for drinks.

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Just a heads up, this year they're going cashless for drinks, so any transaction for alcohol at the festival will require a wristband that you can preload with money.

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I like this. Should move those lines quickly.


Now second question. If I was so inclined to step into a bar for a drink or two, what is my best bet as far as selection goes? Last time I’ve been to a bar in downtown Lafayette was the Green Room 8 years ago.

Jefferon St. Pub has a pretty good craft beer selection
Dat Dog has a bunch of good craft taps
Green Room is decent
Wurst Biergarten will have the biggest selection but as someone already said, it's going to be packed as hell

Antler's Crawfish maque choux is usually my favorite dish there, followed by Zea's ribs.

the best cocktails are at Pamplona IMO, for beer you can go to the wurst biergarten (possible cover) or Jefferson St. Pub. Legends Marg is really good if its hot out.

Tracked??

Goes without saying they aren't tracking you, but you paranoid frickers can get a wristband and put only cash on it, and not even register an account to the wristband. Only thing you'd need to do is take a picture of the account numbers on the RFID wristband in case you lose your band, you can go to the customer service tent and freeze the funds on the lost band and/or transfer funds to a new band. (registering an account allows you to freeze a lost band yourself)

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does this mean that food booths won't?

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Currently food booths and the independent artists will not accept wristbands/RFID. I believe that is the plan for future years, but I guess they want to make sure everything runs smoothly at the beverage and merchandise booths before they roll out systems to every food vendor and/or artist.