Smorgasburg Arcadia Memorial Day Market

Smorgasburg LA is taking its Memorial Day weekend pop-up to Arcadia with a three-day BBQ Invitational at Santa Anita Park from Saturday, May 23, through Monday, May 25, 2026. Time Out Los Angeles and Santa Anita Park list the event as a collaboration between the weekly Arts District food market and the racetrack’s holiday programming. The event is set in the infield at Santa Anita Park, at 285 W. Huntington Drive, with food vendors, carnival attractions and live racing on the broader holiday schedule. Universe, the ticketing platform for the event, says the market will run from noon to 7 p.m. each day. ### Where exactly is the pop-up happening in Arcadia? Santa Anita Park is the site for the Memorial Day weekend event, with the BBQ Invitational staged in the infield rather than at Smorgasburg LA’s usual Sunday home at ROW DTLA. Santa Anita’s events calendar lists the Smorgasburg BBQ Invitational for May 23-25, tying it to the track’s live-racing weekend in Arcadia. The Arcadia address attached to the event is 285 W. Huntington Drive, according to the Universe ticket page and Santa Anita’s event listing. That places the pop-up inside one of the San Gabriel Valley’s best-known event venues, where Santa Anita regularly mixes racing dates with food and entertainment programming. ### What is Smorgasburg bringing to this Memorial Day weekend event? Time Out Los Angeles says Smorgasburg has curated a lineup of six pop-up BBQ vendors for the Arcadia event. The publication describes the mix as spanning Texas, Filipino, Japanese, Cambodian and Cuban styles, framing the weekend as a barbecue-focused offsite edition of the market. Smorgasburg’s own site describes the Los Angeles operation as a large weekly food market that also produces offsite pop-ups and partner events. Santa Anita’s event page uses similar language, calling the Arcadia collaboration a three-day BBQ bonanza for Memorial Day weekend. ### Is this just a food market, or are there other attractions too? Santa Anita Park says the weekend will include 10 carnival rides, games and bounce houses in addition to the barbecue vendors. Time Out’s listing also points to horse racing across the holiday weekend as part of the draw at the venue. Universe describes the event as a “3-day BBQ bonanza” and lists timed ticket entries beginning at noon. The setup makes the Arcadia event closer to a holiday fair built around food than a standard one-day market stop. ### How does this differ from Smorgasburg’s usual Los Angeles setup? ROW DTLA is still Smorgasburg LA’s regular base, with the market’s calendar listing other spring 2026 events there on Sundays. The Arcadia event is a separate Memorial Day weekend collaboration at Santa Anita Park rather than a relocation of the weekly market. Smorgasburg’s main website says the company works on offsite pop-ups, activations and partner programming beyond its standing market locations. The Arcadia invitational fits that model: a branded, temporary expansion built around a holiday weekend and a host venue’s existing entertainment schedule. ### What should people check before going? Universe lists the Smorgasburg BBQ Invitational for May 23, May 24 and May 25, with event hours of noon to 7 p.m. Santa Anita and Time Out both carry current event pages, and those pages are the clearest source for admission details, vendor updates and any schedule changes before the weekend. Memorial Day in 2026 falls on Monday, May 25, and Santa Anita’s calendar shows the BBQ Invitational running through that date. Anyone planning to go can find the latest schedule and ticket information through Santa Anita Park’s event listing, the Universe ticket page and Time Out Los Angeles before heading to Arcadia.