The Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival Returns With Food, DJs, Live Music, Cocktails & More
Need another spring festival to put on your to-do list? Well, on Saturday May 4th from noon to 5 pm, the Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival will take place with plenty of food, music, cocktails and more.
The festival aims to highlight the various businesses that Rittenhouse has to offer including restaurants, stores, salons, hotels, galleries, fitness and wellness studios and cultural institutions. The footprint of the spring festival takes place Walnut Street from 15th to 19th Streets, 18th Street from Locust to Sansom Street.
Each year the annual festival attracts 50,000 guests annually. “This is the only event where Walnut Street is closed to automotive traffic. The event was paused in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and relaunched last year .The Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival been a staple event in the area since Rittenhouse Row was founded in the late 1990s. The festival is a Philadelphia tradition with new elements, new energy and many first-time participants each year,” organizers stated.
For the first time at the festival, Vinyl brings their night time ambiance and vibe outdoors. Vinyl and Rob Paine host Taking it to the Streets, featuring DJ sets from Lady Alma, Pete Moss, Rob Paine, John Raffaele, Dev, and Jack Stanley, sponsored by Red Bull
Sisterly Love Collective’s Rittenhouse Market features Jet Wine Bar’s Pama Sangria Garden at Syndenham Street, made to order churros from El Merkury’s new churro cart, and tacos from Revolution Taco. 15 Sisterly Love Collective women epicurean entrepreneurs will be selling gourmet and craft items. Oyster House will be shucking fresh oysters and serving shrimp cocktail . BOTLD will be sampling their only at BOTLD spirits. Ensemble Arts Philly, Jessup House, 210 S. 12th Street, Hosts for Hospitals will also be exhibiting on this block
FOOD + DRINK HIGHLIGHTS
- a bar + a Kitchen: Chef Eli Collins’ Best of Philly-winning burgers, Don Julio margaritas
- Bar Bombon: Walking tacos, street corn, classic and salted grapefruit margaritas
- Barclay Prime: Wagyu sliders and lobster rolls, Pink Dove cocktails
- Bluecoat Lounge: Parkside cocktail garden with signature cocktails like the red, white and blue Betsy Ross and Gin Punch and décor from Triple Tree Flowers
- Butcher & Singer: Crabcake sliders and beef brochette skewers, and mint juleps
- Café Click: Ham and cheese sandwiches and Café Click spritzes
- Continental Mid-Town: Tuna tostadas, Frozen Astronaut and Cosmo Spacelycocktails
- The Dandelion: crab croquettes and triple cooked chips, Poppy Squash cocktail
- Devon: Mint juleps and lobster and crab rolls
- El Merkury: Churros, street corn, horchata and cucumber lemonade
- El Rey: Chile spiced popcorn, frozen guava margaritas
- Happy Rooster: Lobster rolls, sliders, Stateside frozen lemonades
- Jet Wine Bar: Ceviches, guacamole. Pama sangria
- Lacroix: Boudin blanc with braised cabbage
- Oyster House: shrimp cocktail and oysters shucked on-site
- Parc: Homemade ice cream in mini cups and pints, frose and frozen juleps
- Patchwork: Roast pork shoulder sandwiches, succotash
- Pizzata Pizzeria: Roman Al Taglio slices to go
- Pizzeria Salvy: Pizza
- Restaurant Aleksander: Pierogis
- Revolution Taco: Tacos and the Revolution bike
- Scarpetta: Caprese salad
- Sisterly Love Collective members including Art by Alicia, Attic Brewing Company, Cake Life Bake Shop, Daisy Lane Studio, El Merkury, Jet Wine Bar,
- Lily Lough Jewelry, Maker Missya,Perade, Elizabeth Peyton Creations, Poppa’s Custard, Revolution Taco, Sugar Bottom Hemp, Unruly Nature
- Spice Finch: Chicken kebabs, cucumber tomato salad, green hummus and crudites
- Two Robbers: full collection of Two Robbers cans from the Philly-founded brand
- Walnut Garden: Mini brisket cheesesteak, cold sesame noodle salad
- Wilder: Italian sandwich, shrimp ceviche, strawberry tres leches cake, wine, strawberry rhubarb tequila mules
- Vinyl: Dance party cocktail garden, featuring Red Bull
- AND MORE.
