Food
When curds from the world-famous Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery are your main ingredient, you can’t go wrong.
Get your Deep Fried Cheese Curds at Cheese Curd Central
Located on Wall Street’s Food Truck Alley, festival attendees can get their fill of both fresh and hand-battered deep-fried curds and gourmet dipping sauces at the festival’s Cheese Curd Central booths! Both Cheese Curd Central booths will be serving up fresh and squeaky cheese curds three ways this year:
- Classic Deep Fried: Hand-dipped in beer batter and fried just like the ones you love at the state fair. Dip them in your favorite sauces from the Dipping Sauce Stations.
- Cinnamon Sugar Dessert Curds: If a cheese curd and a mini donut had a love-child, this would be it. They were invented here and the Cheese Curd Festival is the only place you can get ’em. Don’t miss out–they’re so good, they’re addicting!
- This year’s exclusive flavor – Hot Honey! These curds bring the heat and the sweet. With a kiss of cayenne and a smooth honey finish, every bite is a perfect balance of bold and delicious. Coated in our famous crispy batter and fried to golden perfection, they’re served with hot honey for dipping. Available exclusively at the 2025 Cheese Curd Festival, these are curds with kick – and they’re not to be missed!
Food Trucks
We’ve got a great line-up of food trucks again this year! Each vendor will have at least two signature cheese curd items on their menus.
- Al & Mrs. Al’s Kettle Corn
- Big Guys BBQ Roadhouse
- Richie’s Cheese Curd Tacos
- Flippin’ Good Gourmet Grilled Cheese
- Grandma’s Cookies
- Holy Donuts
- In Yeero Dreams
- Kannel’s In-Hog-Nito!
- Lil Ferrucci’s Kitchen
- Olson’s Corn Dogs, Fritters & Funnel Cakes
- Regal’s Quesadillas and Philly Cheese
- Rolling Roaster
- The Original Minneapple Pie
- What’s your Scoop?
- Wilder Waffle Co
Beverage
When you’re gettin’ your curds on, you’ve got to have an ice-cold something in the other hand! Festival guests will find a variety of perfectly chilled beverage options at the Festival bars. From wine and beer to soda and hard ciders, you’ll find the perfect beverage to compliment all the amazing cheese curd dishes and Sconnie BBQ along Food Truck Alley.
You’ll find a festival bar among the professional food vendors on Wall Street’s Food Truck Alley. Another festival bar is located within the park grounds under the pavilions, conveniently located near our point musical stage.
In addition to a selection of domestic beer, sodas, and bottled water, wine, hard cider, and craft beer are among the beverage options available at the festival this year!
Featured Craft Brews: A variety of regional craft beers will be available!
- New Glarus Spotted Cow
- Hop N Barrel Lemon Breaker Shandy
- Brewing Projekt Gunpowder
- Oliphant Lumberjack Baes
- Earth Rider Caribou Lake
- Castle Danger Aurora Haze IPA
- Lift Bridge Farm Day
Featured Wine: We’re excited to feature wines from Forestville Vines — a family-owned winery right here in western Wisconsin. Located in River Falls, they craft small-batch wines with locally grown grapes and a passion for flavor.
- Forestville Vines School House White
- Forestville Vines School House Red
- Forestville Vines Summer Vacation Rosé
Featured Hard Cider: Maiden Rock Honeycrisp Hard Cider made right in our own backyard in Maiden Rock, WI. It’s a natural semi-dry hard apple cider. Like the apple that is its namesake, Honeycrisp Hard is distinctive, snappy, and sassy.
Don’t forget about the Corks & Kegs Tasting Experience! This popular event is a happy hour like no other. Your ticket grants you entrance to unlimited sampling and light appetizers during the events. Tickets can be purchased online.
