WHO MAKES

THE BEST

MARGARITAS IN

KNOXVILLE?

POWERED BY

The Mill & Mine

2025 To Be Announced Soon!

Join us at the second annual Knoxville Margarita Festival as your favorite restaurants compete for the title of Best Margarita in town! Work your way through your Sample Passport that includes 10 mini margaritas, plus enjoy entertainment, fun photo opps, and purchase dinner from local food vendors. Not sure if you like your margs salted, shaken, stirred or frozen? Sip the night away and then vote for your favorite.

This event is 21+. Alcohol service ends at 8:45 PM. Please drink responsibly.

BENEFITING:

TennGreen Land Conservancy empowers landowners and communities to protect large, connected natural areas that support diversity of life, inspire appreciation of nature, and spark action to protect the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the land that sustains us all.

Congrats!

2024 Margarita Festival champions

CHIVO TAQUERIA!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2024 WINNERS

  • FIRST PLACE

  • SECOND PLACE

  • THIRD PLACE

2025Tickets will be released soon.

In Partnership with

COMPETITORS

COMPETITORS ★

PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

Cerveza, anyone?

Chill out in the Yee-Haw Cerveza Playground at Margarita Festival, where you can play yard games, relax, and enjoy tastings by Yee-Haw Brewing Co.

Come Hungry! Food for sale by:

Sweet P’s BBQ

CJ’s Tacos

B’s Bites

Kooky Cookies

FAQs

  • Your ticket includes 10 sample-size margaritas, plus access to the whole event area including photo booth and other fun activities. Complimentary water is provided. Food, as well as wine, beer, and additional cocktails will be available for purchase.
    All alcohol service ends at 8:45 PM.

  • This event is strictly 21+, so line up a babysitter and come on down. Sorry, pups (aside from service animals) aren’t allowed either.

  • Tickets and 21+ ID are required to be admitted. Please drink responsibly and designate a driver. No guns or weapons of any kind will be permitted into the festival.

  • At the door, you'll receive a Sampling Passport which will allow you 10 mini margs, plus a few bonus samples from our partners. There will be more than 10 competitors, so be sure to browse the options! Do you like them sweet? spicy? traditional? outside-the-box? We know it is hard to choose, but your safety is our priority.

  • Make a night of it! Book at The Oliver Hotel for modern amenities and a contemporary elegance, all wrapped up in East Tennessee hospitality. Use our special booking link https://bookings.travelclick.com/112134#/guestsandrooms and use code "Margarita" for 15% off  Thurs-Sun of KMF weekend.

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