Madison Square Park
24th St. at Broadway, Fifth Ave. & Madison Ave.
Tuesday, July 12, 5:30 entry $260, 6:30 entry $160
212-538-0018
www.madisonsquarepark.org
Madison Square Park, home of the Shake Shack, the Big Apple BBQ, and the eclectic Mad. Sq. Eats food market, continues its culinary journeys on July 12 with Celebrate Flatiron Chefs! A benefit for the park’s horticulture and outstanding free arts programming, the event features signature dishes from more than two dozen neighborhood restaurants and celebrity chefs. Among the specialties on the menu are ABC Kitchen executive chef Dan Kluger’s grilled fresh bacon and cherry-black pepper glaze and glazed donuts; Almond chef-partner Jason Weiner’s house-smoked bluefish with Old Bay potato chips and Greek yogurt; A Voce executive chef Missy Robbins’s smokey eggplant soup with whipped ricotta and Neapolitan eggplant and chocolate; craftbar chef-owner Tom Colicchio and chef de cuisine Lauren Hirschberg’s smoked pigs head terrine with citrus mostarda and crispy pork trotter with green tomato and pickled chilis; Pranna executive chef Toshi Nukui’s edamame falafel with cucumber raita, mini beef sliders with sweet chili aioli, Napa cabbage, and cilantro, and mango tres leches cake; and Eleven Madison Park pastry chef Angela Pinkerton’s strawberry shortcake with lemon thyme. Other participants include Eataly, Calexico, the Shake Shack, Hill Country Barbecue, Resto, Rickshaw Dumpling, Bar Breton, the Breslin, Brooklyn Brewery, Long Island Wineries, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, and guest chef Alain Allegretti, who will be preparing heirloom tomato and watermelon gazpacho with Portuguese octopus in addition to milk-fed veal tartare with salsa verde and potato chips. Tickets are $160, but if you want an hour’s head start on everyone else, $260 gets you in at 5:30.