Chamber Postpones Taste of Conejo

The second annual Taste of Conejo, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, has been postponed until later this year by the Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Terry Greenberg, the chamber’s interim executive director, said problems between the chamber and the company it had hired to organize the event, Evans Trade Show Management of Moorpark, prompted the delay.

“It didn’t turn out to be the right relationship,” he said. “Basically [the festival] is going back to the drawing board. . . . We want to do the best event we can.”

He declined to elaborate but noted that although planning began in May, the chamber organizing committee and the trade show company apparently ran out of time.

The festival was to be at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

The postponement--announced last week in the chamber’s in-house publication--had nothing to do with the tepid response to the inaugural festival last year, Greenberg said.

Only five restaurants served food to about 1,500 patrons, who took in the work of 35 local artists.

The chamber organized last year’s event itself before turning to the trade show company, which largely holds bridal shows.

“We need more time. We changed things, and obviously the relationship didn’t work out,” Greenberg said.

“Hopefully at this point it’s going to show up at some time in the fall, but we don’t know when.”