{"id":1294,"date":"2013-12-18T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.renthop.com\/news\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2023-07-22T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T15:40:17","slug":"see-new-yorks-best-food-fairs-and-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/see-new-yorks-best-food-fairs-and-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Fantastic Food Fairs!"},"content":{"rendered":"
New York has always been home to ethnic restaurants representing cultures around the globe, some of the world\u2019s finest upscale dining, a wide variety of cheap eats, and, as this blog discussed previously, supermarkets of many varieties.\u00a0 What the city has not had until very recently is a culture of food fairs and festivals.\u00a0 For a long time there have been farmer’s markets, and certainly sidewalk street vendors selling hot dogs and pretzels. \u00a0It’s only in the past five years, though, that the city has become home to hundreds of artisanal chefs and food crafters, making and selling their own custom foods ranging from tacos to cupcakes to pickles to pretzels and many more.\u00a0 Alongside this development, a number of destination-worthy food festivals have popped up across the city — some weekly, some monthly, and some just once a year — where you can sample some of the best and most unique eats New York has to offer.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the top fairs to check out:<\/p>\n
Indoors during the winter and outdoors all summer long, Smorgasburg is the food festival that started it all. With 75 food vendors (spiking to 100 in the spring and summer) Smorgasburg started as an offshoot of the weekly Brooklyn Flea Market but became an event all its own in 2008.\u00a0 Since then, it has become an institution, and an incubator for restaurants of the future — if you want to discover your favorite new restaurant two years before it opens, Smorgasburg is the place to be.\u00a0 Despite long lines when the weather\u2019s friendly, crowds have only grown — cobbling together lunch from vendors selling foods as diverse as fried anchovies, steamed buns, and homemade sausages.<\/p>\n