THE VILLAGE VOICE CHOICE EATS SEVENTH ANNUAL TASTING EVENT
Basketball City at Pier 36
299 South St. at Montgomery St.
Tuesday, March 25, $60 general admission, 7:00 – 10:00
21 and over only
www.villagevoice.com/choiceeats
There’s still time to get tickets to the seventh annual Village Voice Choice Eats festival, but you’ll need to move fast to score access to tastings from more than sixty New York City eateries, plus complimentary drinks, backgrounded by DJ DIIV and boasting a special Choice Sweets section upstairs. (Hint: Do not miss the Butter & Scotch table.) Dine and dash from line to line, meeting the chefs, but with access to so many vendors, Choice Eats can feel overwhelming. Make a plan: There are techniques for approaching this near-surfeit of goodness: Do a Manhattan vs. Brooklyn “lobster-off,” testing the rolls of East Seventh St.’s Luke’s Lobster vs. Van Brunt St.’s Red Hook Lobster Pound, or try to stay genre specific, pitting the meats of Mable’s Smokehouse in Brooklyn against Long Island City’s John Brown or Fletcher’s Brooklyn Barbecue. Or take an Asian tour from Larb Ubol’s Isan Thai to the Kati Roll Company to Tabata Noodle. You can also strategically make a trip across four boroughs by adding Staten Island’s Indian Clove to your culinary journey, but, alas, there are no eateries hailing from the Bronx. Every establishment has been featured on the pages of the Voice; among the other participating restaurants are Devi, Fonda, Max, Pete Zaaz, Sheep Station, the Pines, Bear, and Egg. Buy now; all the VIP tickets are already gone, and general admission will also sell out well in advance of the twenty-one-and-over-only March 25 event at Basketball City.