The Market Shops Bloody Mary Festival

The Market Shops will host the 4th Annual Bloody Mary Festival benefiting Habitat for Humanity Walton County on Saturday, October 6, 2018 from 11 am to 2 pm.  This year’s festival welcomes many favorite restaurants, bars and culinary artists from around South Walton and Destin. 

Tickets are currently on sale through 850Tix for the pre-sale price of $40 or can be purchased the day of the event at the door for $50. To learn more about The Market Shops Bloody Mary Festival and to buy tickets, visit www.themarketshops.com. If you would like to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity on the day of the event, please email volunteer@waltoncountyhabitat.org.

The much anticipated event will feature Bloody Mary’s from the area’s top restaurants, craft beer from Grayton Beer Company, memories captured by Epic Photo Co., bubbly bar, local eats and more! Enoy live music by DJ Rock the House and the Luke Langford Band on the main stage, sponsored by Hyatt Place Sandestin at Grand Boulevard.

Festival goers will enjoy 3 hours of unlimited tastes of up to 25 of the Emerald Coast’s most creative and innovative Bloody Marys, made and served by the finest restaurants and bars on the Panhandle.  Guests will also enjoy local food tastes, a commemorative signature cup, Mimosa Bar, live music, special shopping options from the merchants of The Market Shops, and ONE vote for the People’s Choice Award for the Best Bloody Mary in South Walton. We are anticipating 700 to 1,000 guests who all must be 21+ in age.

Judging for first place Bloody Mary will be made by a panel of select food critics and local celebrities. Bloody Marys will be judged on most delicious and most creative. There will also be a highly coveted People’s Choice Award.

We are proud to announce proceeds from The Market Shops Bloody Mary Festival will benefit Habitat for Humanity Walton County. Habitat for Humanity—Walton County partners with people in the community to help them build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. With your support, Habitat homeowners achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better life for themselves and for their families.

The inaugural Bloody Mary Festival took place in 2015 on a beautiful day with yummy food, fun people, great shopping, music, and a dazzling variety of creative Bloody Mary concoctions. What do you like in your Bloody Mary? Well chances are you would have been satisfied - pickled veggies, uinque salts, chicken wings, BLTs, grit cakes, sausage, shrimp, crab legs - you name it and it was stuffed and piled inside the red libations. Oh! And plenty of vodka in the glasses, along with mimosas and Grayton Beer.

See our photo gallery from Bloody Mary Festival 2015!