food festivals
These chefs are turning Peruvian cuisine into NYC's next food craze
If your knowledge of Peruvian food begins and ends with rotisserie chicken, it’s time to book a table. Peruvian cuisine, which fuses Japanese, Chinese, Italian and Spanish cooking styles, is...
Some pizza pros are coming from Italy to challenge NYC's slice supremacy
When it comes to pizza, there are really only two great cities: Naples and New York. This weekend, the two pizza capitals are going head-to-head at the first annual New...
'Chopped' host Ted Allen spends weekends scarfing down fried chicken sandwiches
Ted Allen, the host of Food Network’s “Chopped,” was the culinary expert on Bravo’s original “Queer Eye” series, now revived on Netflix. But that’s not Allen’s only tie to the...
7 New York Oktoberfests for every kind of drinker
Grab a stein and don your lederhosen! Oktoberfest is here. Never mind that this is New York, not Munich, and that it’s still technically September. Although the 200-year-old folk festival...
'It was disgusting': reporter reveals the best and worst baseball stadium food
Major League Baseball’s inaugural FoodFest in Manhattan featured a signature dish from every single MLB ballpark, and NYPost.com senior reporter Michael Blaustein was there to try all 30 of them. From a...
The best and worst from MLB's 30-team food taste test
Dinner at Eleven Madison, the best restaurant in the world, lasts a little over two hours, costs $315 per person, and encompasses somewhere between eight and 10 courses. Major League...
Try cricket noodles and bird embryos at this NYC food fair
You don’t need a plane ticket to taste your way around the globe. Simply grab your MetroCard and head to the Queens Night Market, the weekly food festival in Flushing...
Taste of Summer sets wide-ranging table of events
The East End’s biggest food festival is back and bigger than ever. Dan’s Taste of Summer will feature its first sit-down dinner, Dan’s Chefs of the North Fork, hosted by...
Five new eateries coming to Upper West Side food festival
The 11th annual Taste of the Upper West Side — a two-night foodie fest that highlights local restaurants — will preview a whopping five new eateries this spring. The May...
Why Restaurant Week has such bad desserts
Ah, Restaurant Week. The dishes! The deals! The disappointments! The inaccurately named three-week gimmick asks chefs to create prix fixe menus with a strict price cap ($29 for lunch, $42...
Food festival's first day boasts 60 tons of kimchi
SEOUL - Plunging their pink-gloved hands into cartons of cabbages and slathering the vegetables with a bright-red sauce, more than 2,300 people on Friday got to grips with making the...
World's hottest chili vodka lands drinker in hospital
This drink was too hot to handle. A 30-year-old man from the UK was hospitalized after taking a swig of 1786 Satan’s Shot, a vodka infused with one of the...
East End food festival set for major expansion
On the East End, Dan’s Taste of Summer is back and bigger than ever, with a who’s who of top-ranked chefs, up-and-coming stars, and new restaurants, including one from billionaire...
Taste of the Upper West Side festival set to expand
The Upper West Side’s culinary scene has come a long way since the Taste of the Upper West Side began in 2007. This year, the famed food festival features more...
This is a spicy food lover's paradise
Sixty-degree, damp days got you down? Add some sizzle to your Saturday by heading to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 24th annual Chile Pepper Festival to celebrate all things capsicum. Chili...
The best NYC spots to slurp during Oyster Week
If, as Jonathan Swift said, “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster,” then New York is full of brave souls. We’ve been slurping down oysters ever since...
Watch people pig out on meatballs at San Gennaro
Carnivores looking to have a ball are in luck. The Feast of San Gennaro, a New York tradition now in its 90th year, is holding its first-ever meatball-eating contest. Brooklyn-born...
Big Food's hottest trend? Crusading against Big Food
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Gathered for a free music festival, a crowd waits to see one of the headline attractions — an exhibit about fast-food ingredients. On display: Beakers of...
Pig out at a pork fest this weekend in NYC
New Yorkers who believe that the best meals are eaten in restaurants need to get out more. This weekend, local foodies can pig out at a pork festival on Brooklyn’s...
Annual tomato battle leaves Spanish town awash in red pulp
UNOL, Spain — Thousands of people pelted each other with tons of ripe tomatoes Wednesday, creating a red, mushy mess in the annual "Tomatina" street battle in eastern Spain. At...