Live music and a wide variety of food are on the menu at annual Taste of Times Square

46th St. between Broadway & Ninth Ave.
Monday, June 11, most dishes $2-$6, 5:00 – 9:00
www.timessquarenyc.org

The international culinary flavor of the Times Square area will be on display tonight at the annual Taste of Times Square, where more than fifty local restaurants will be serving their signature dishes on West 46th St. The menu lineup, with most dishes costing between two and six dollars (purchased with dollar tasting tickets), incudes blackened tenderloin tips from Shula’s American Steakhouse, pork and bean sausage with Tori’s buffalo chips from Ca Va Brasserie, beef sliders from the Library at the Paramount Hotel, salmon caviar blini and chicken Kiev from Firebird, traditional spinach and feta cheese spanakopitas from Hourglass Tavern, chicken pot pie from O’Lunney’s, empanadas from Nuchas, sliced steak sandwiches from Gallagher’s, Memphis pork ribs from Virgil’s, lobster rolls from Snackbox, paella from Meson Sevilla, doners from Dervish, pulled pork sandwiches from Joe Allen, steak frites sushi hand rolls from Mr. Robata, penne alla vodka from Carmine’s, crespelle alla Savolarda from Barbetta, and yellowfin tuna, pickled enoki, miso aioli, and ginger soy glaze from Nios. For dessert, there’s the classic Junior’s original cheesecake, Le Rivage’s bread pudding with crème Anglaise, flan from Sangria 46, strawberry sundaes from Blue Fin, gelato from Salume, and shaved ice from Rickshaw Dumpling Bar. Free live entertainment will be provided by Paul Mueller, the Ebony Hillbillies, the Baby Soda Jazz Band, Mariachi Real de Mexico, Moses Josiah, Alais Lucette, Don Witter Jr., the Jazz Collective, and George Gee and the Jump Jive n’ Wail Swing Orchestra.