Agave Heritage Festival - Marana Event

The Agave Heritage Festival is a four-day event across the Tucson area celebrating all things agave. For the first time, a Marana restaurant will participate!

Join Nana’s Kitchen, a family owned Mexican eatery and two artisanal agave spirits brands - Cola Blanca Bacanora and Lost Lore. Enjoy a traditional and authentic dinner to help celebrate the Agave Heritage Festival.

4:00 - 5:30pm- Start off with a cocktail hour featuring a Cola Blanca Bacanora Sonoran Cocktail. Also experience a one ounce neat pour of this amazing Bacanora paired with a Ceviche Tostada.

6:00-7:00 pm Lost Lore dinner will be an oz of silver paired with 3 mini chimis, meal will be Huaraches de birria with Nana's signature green rice and ranchero beans, dessert will be churros with an añejo carajillo cocktail.

Buy tickets in advance as there is limited seating for this special event.

The festival celebrates the unique importance of the agave plant and the borderlands culture with seminars, tours and field trips, spirit tastings, bar takeovers, movie screenings, music, roasting demonstrations, and world-class culinary demonstrations, all with a focus on sustainability. For more information on other events held during the festival visit the Agave Heritage Festival website.

The agave plays a significant role in the ancient history of Marana. The Hohokam peoples cultivated the plant on a large scale in the foothills of the Tortolita Mountains in present-day Marana, which they put to a variety of uses. Read more about the history of the Hohokam people in Southern Arizona!