Last Saturday we went to the 37th Annual Ninth Avenue Food Festival. For two days they close off 9th Avenue from 42nd Street all the way to 57th Street from 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM. This is a mile long stretch with the avenue being 100 feet wide. They say that this is attended by one million people over the weekend. I don’t doubt that number. The avenue is lined on both sides with hundreds of food tents and crafts vendors. This is the heart of Hell’s Kitchen so the emphasis is on the ethnic foods that are found in this continuous stretch of small owner operated restaurants.
We had skipped breakfast to come hungry and it worked. We zeroed in on a wonderful Mexican tent and each ordered a small combo plate, chicken, rice, beans, lettuce, for $4. There was nothing small about it and we could have easily split this.
Toni found some silver earrings and a silver ring at another tent and a little wallet at another. She was happy. We were good and had a big cup of fresh pineapple for dessert before heading home.
As the dinner hour approached we both knew what we had to do. Yes, we went back for seconds. We chose our respective tents, lobster roll for Toni, pulled pork sandwich for me, roasted corn on the cob for our veggie and then we settled in at a bar tent for some adult beverages as we watched the crowd slowly thin out.
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