Serious Eats: New York
NYC Food Events For the Weekend (and Beyond)
[Photo: Michele Humes]
NY Dumpling Festival
Saturday, October 24th, 12:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Gnocchi, tamales, bao, pierogi—taste them all at New York's first dumpling festival, and watch the 6th Annual Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest. Sara D. Roosevelt Park, on East Houston Street; event website
New Amsterdam Market
Sunday, October 25, 11:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
This monthly market is gathering steam, and October's event features Fairway bagels, lobster rolls from Luke's Lobster, never-before-tasted cask ales, beer tastings, a meat-cutting class by Josh Applestone and Tom Mylan, and much, much more. Free admission. South Street, between Beekman Street and Peck Slip; event website
Resto Trappist Grant Tasting
Monday, October 26th, 7:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.
Belgium's Trappist monasteries make some of the finest beers out there. Taste all seven—Achel, Chimay, Koningshoeven, Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle, and Westvleteren— alongside a seven-course meal from Chef Bobby Hellen. $150. Resto, 111 East 29th Street; venue website
Events down the line, after the jump.
Brooklyn Farmers Ball
Tuesday, October 27th, 7:00 p.m.- midnight
Benefit the Growing Food and Justice Initiative with a Brooklyn party: a locally sourced buffet, regional wine and beer, music from Rude Mechanical Orchestra, and more. $12-$24 donation. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn; event website
Eat Brooklyn
Tuesday, October 27th, 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.
A benefit for the CUNY School of Hospitality, this annual event lets you sample the goods from more than thirty Brooklyn restaurants. $110-125. Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn; event website
How to Start a CSA
Wednesday, October 28th, 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.
Ever wished a CSA serviced your area? Learn how to start your own at this lecture from nonprofit Just Food. Free admission. Just Food, 1155 Sixth Avenue; event website