Rockefeller Center pop-up beer garden opens May 19 with special six-course food-and-beer pairing
Summer Garden & Bar at Rock Center Café
Rockefeller Plaza
Fifth Ave. between 49th & 50th Sts.
Monday, May 19, $45, 6:00
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www.brooklynbrewery.com
Rockefeller Center is celebrating the opening of Rock Center Café’s Summer Garden & Bar with a special evening on May 19 featuring Garrett Oliver’s Brooklyn Brewery. Oliver and Rock Center chef Antonio Prontelli have put together a six-course dinner pairing that begins with a Cuban chicken sandwich and Brooklyn Brewery’s Local 1, followed by housemade lamb sausage and summer squash kebabs with Brooklyn Blast! Up next is BBQ-spiced salmon sliders with Greenmarket Wheat, then tomato-watermelon salad with Summer Ale, and steak salad with Sorachi Ace. For dessert, a milk chocolate and peanut butter bar is accompanied by Cuvée Noire. After two hours of eating, drinking, and mixing with chefs and beer experts, everyone gets a final Brooklyn Pilsner draft to drink inside or outdoors. There are only a handful of tickets ($45) left, so you better act fast.