It's hard to imagine the number of vendors under one roof at
Village Voice's Choice Eats 2011; over 90 different restaurants and food purveyors were offering some of their best bites to the sold-out event. (I saw people running as they entered and people juggling few plates at one time.) But it's painful to hop from table to table—both in terms of the amount of food you consume, and in the sadness of leaving one excellent stop behind to hop to the next.
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We crammed into the 69th Armory building last night with a zoo of others for Village Voice's Third Annual Choice Eats event. It was a flurry of arms reaching for small taster plates from about 65 New York City restaurants,...
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Photographs by Robyn Lee Last night, 56 restaurants downsized into table form, dispensing bites of signature goodies inside the Lexington Avenue Armory for Village Voice's 2nd annual Choice Eats. Boy, were there a lot of bodies in there. So...
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This isn't a white tablecloth, fancy-pants restaurant event. Those affairs are fine and dandy, but they don't really bring Serious Eaters much in the way of different or delicious ethnic fare, which is a shame given how much terrific ethnic...
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What was called "a global cheap-eats summit" last year, the Village Voice's Choice Eats is back again to spotlight New York grub celebrated by critics Robert Sietsema and Sarah DiGregorio. Though the event isn't until Tuesday, March 31, the $35...
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Choice Eats was a fun event. It was reasonably well-organized, lines for food were not ridiculously long, and it was terrific fun to see all these international foods being served to people who would probably never venture to these restaurants...
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Most eat-around events in New York feature exclusively white tablecloth, fancy-pants restaurants. Those affairs are fine and dandy, but they don't really bring serious eaters much in the way of different or delicious ethnic fare, which is a shame given...
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