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Photos: Eat Real was Real Fun

Posted by novoscene on August 31, 2009

Crowd
The crowds were large – tens of thousands of people crowded into Jack London Square for the Eat Real Festival this past weekend.

Serving paella

…and the longest lines were for…. the paella.

Buying Beer
People drank a LOT of beer..
Eat Real
..and ate trucks-full of dessert: This one sold out!

Food truck

The festival was colorful..

Bocanova

..and restaurants that aren’t officially in business (as yet) opened their doors for the weekend.

Festive on the lawn

The weather was warm and beautiful…

And there was musicThere was music..

DJ…and more music.
Sauls

Cheap food AND good food.
Tapas truck
StageThere were demonstrations and contests…

Eat Real shop…with a bit of shopping.
Fashionable womanFashionable people in beautiful clothes enjoyed the day..

Waiting for coffee…and others waited for their coffee.

Inside the food hall
The festival drew some big stores – outside and inside the food hall..

The food hall

….and lots of people to shop at the little ones.

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