{"id":264584,"date":"2026-08-13T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:30:08","slug":"its-going-to-be-amazing-vendors-to-offer-at-least-100-varieties-of-fries-at-french-fry-fest-in-berks-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264584\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s going to be amazing&#8217;: Vendors to offer at least 100 varieties of fries at French Fry Fest in Berks | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; It&#8217;s just about time for some good, old-fashioned fried fun!<\/p>\n<p>The annual French Fry Fest is back this weekend for its 8th year in Berks County.\u00a0You&#8217;ll be able to find the festival at the 600 and 700 blocks of Penn Avenue in West Reading Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The festival will be filled with thousands of pounds of fries and at least a hundred varieties from multiple vendors. There&#8217;ll be 24 French fry vendors and 70 food vendors.<\/p>\n<p>69 News Reporter Rose Itzcovitz was at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chefdavidspizzaandmore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chef David&#8217;s Pizza &amp; More in West Reading<\/a> with more.<\/p>\n<p>Chef David Calvo showcased his pizza overlaid with green peppers, onions, steak, and, of course, French fries!<\/p>\n<p>What is he looking forward to most about\u00a0French Fry Fest this weekend?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a lot of people come out to try French fries from all the different businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the festival started out with just four vendors and 500 attendees and expanded from there. Fast forward to last year: 18,000 people came to check out the festival.<\/p>\n<p>This year,\u00a0Calvo expects even more people to come out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be amazing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; It&#8217;s just about time for some good, old-fashioned fried fun! The annual French Fry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-264584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}