Organizers are already talking about bringing the Taste of Minnesota back to downtown Minneapolis in 2024.
The return of the food-and-live music event after an eight-year hiatus wrapped up Monday, with total attendance over two days hovering around 100,000.
That's about half of what the Taste would draw during its hey-day at the state capitol grounds.
The Taste went dark in 2015 after two years in Waconia, and efforts to bring it back were hampered in recent years by the pandemic.
Taylor Carik and others were able to get this one organized in a relatively brief time-frame.
And now, if things go well, they'll have more time to prepare if they get the go-ahead to bring the Taste back to downtown Minneapolis.
"With a little bit more lead time, and folks involvement, we should be able to do a bigger, broader event," Carik told John Hines on the WCCO Morning News.
"That's something that we're very interested in doing, and have to have conversations with all the different groups and stakeholders that made it happen this year," he said. "We had tremendous support to pull it off for this first year, which is always the hardest."
There were a few bumps over the last two days.
Crowds were so big on Sunday that many vendors ran out of food.
Temperatures in the high 90's likely kept people away for Monday's final day.
Then streaks of lightning over the site on the north end of Nicollet Ave. forced a delay in the final music act of the weekend.
Still, the crowds were estimated at 60,000 on day one, followed by 40,000 on day two.
The Taste of Minnesota was first held in St. Paul in 1983 and would draw 200,000 people to the state capitol grounds.
It was moved first to Harriet Island before a two-year run in Waconia, which ended eight years ago.