Morel Mushroom Festival - Boyne City, MI

Major disappointment. It is a festival with the usual craft booths that you see over the Midwest. The food options are minimal except between 12-3 pm in a tent.

Their major claim is that you can taste MOREL dishes from ten of the best restaurants in the area. You pay $2 to get into the tent and $3 for each sample.

All I can think of at this point is Clara Peller's old chant, "Where is the beef?"

The samples were tiny - $3 for a 1.5" squared slice of "pizza". We thought that it had morel on the top. No, that was a slice of black olive. The morels were "infused" in oil that was spread on the crust.

Another sample - the best of the lot was a taco with steak and morels ... but they were actually using button mushrooms.

Five minutes into the event, we realized we had been snookered.

We spent $25 and might have had the equivalent of 1/2 a morel mushroom.

It is NOT worth the effort.

That really sucks . . . sounds like you need a weekend trip to the Green City Market for some of your own, and maybe a trip to a Chicago restaurant featuring them. You still have a couple of weeks left.

BR wrote:That really sucks . . . sounds like you need a weekend trip to the Green City Market for some of your own, and maybe a trip to a Chicago restaurant featuring them. You still have a couple of weeks left.

No need to do that. I have a source for Wisconsin mushrooms:

https://rivervalleykitchens.com/

$3/ oz.

I think that I will head home and look for them at that price.

jlawrence01 wrote:

BR wrote:That really sucks . . . sounds like you need a weekend trip to the Green City Market for some of your own, and maybe a trip to a Chicago restaurant featuring them. You still have a couple of weeks left.

No need to do that. I have a source for Wisconsin mushrooms:

https://rivervalleykitchens.com/

$3/ oz.

I think that I will head home and look for them at that price.

Pretty sure those are the same guys selling them at Green City . . . albeit for about $.50/oz. more . . . not a huge difference for me unless they're selling at that same price somewhere else in Chicago.