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Taste of Sunnyside to Take Place on P.C. Richard Parking Lot, Tickets Go on Sale

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March 29, 2018 By Christian Murray

The Taste of Sunnyside is scheduled to take place May 22 on the parking lot next to P.C. Richard on Queens Boulevard and 50th Street.

The announcement was made by the executive director of the Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District, the organizer of the marquee event, at its annual meeting Monday. The BID held its board elections at the meeting and outlined its 2018 goals.

The new venue for the Taste of Sunnyside is a departure from the recent years, where the popular event has been held under the elevated 7-line by the 46th Street-Bliss station in a giant white tent.

The event, which typically offers about 600 attendees the ability to sample food from as many as 30 local restaurants, will be in its eighth year. The Taste, the BID’s biggest annual event, aims to showcase Sunnyside as a dining destination.

“We wanted to shake it up this year and keep the event fresh,” said Jaime-Faye Bean, executive director of Sunnyside Shines, in explaining the rationale for moving it to the new location.

She said that the parking lot is a bigger space and will provide the BID with greater options. She said that there will be room for an outdoor beer garden, which will be adjacent to the iconic white tent. Restaurants will also be able to prepare food on site, unlike in recent years.

Taste of Sunnyside 2016

The space under the elevated line is owned by the DOT and comes with several restrictions.

Tickets for the Taste have gone on sale, with general admission costing $40. Attendees will be provided with a “passport” booklet for the first time that will offer discounts to participating restaurants.

Sunnyside Shines at its annual meeting reelected the existing board members, although the board was expanded and there were new additions. The owners of Fresh N Save, Riko Restaurant, KMIA Salon and Realtegrity Real Estate joined the board. However, the executive leadership of John Vogt, as chair, Christopher Winchester, as vice chair, and Artie Weiner, as treasurer, was unchanged.

At the meeting, Bean said that most of the popular events will be coming back again this year such as Restaurant Week, the vintage trolley for the holiday season, and activities at Bliss and Lowery Plazas.

The BID will be introducing a promotion in 2018 called “Bliss Week,” where it will be marketing beauty stores and salons in the area, Bean said.

For tickets to the Taste of Sunnyside click here.

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Do it in Brooklyn next time

Sunnyside eats,,, in woodside ???
There was no where in ss to have it.
Dumb.

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Native Sunnyside and Woodside resident

It’s “taste” of Sunnyside.. The restaurants that are participating are SS restaurants ..

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ann

Tastes of Sunnyside is probably my favorite event each year. I don’t attend, but it’s fun to see the neagative comments from sad people on here, then see the packed, sold out event and realize that the folks who cut hard working people down in the comments are a very small minority (probably just the same person with different names).

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Eddie

I loved on 51 st close by there and had a Sunnyside zip code.. It’s not Woodside.. But anyone who is from that area knows Sunnyside and Woodside are mixed up all over there.. It’s pretty much the same hood

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Eatite

Under the pigeon crap 7 train with exhaust from both sides was much better. I agree.

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Carbie Barbie

Mmm, nothing says delicious food like melting tar, asphalt and exhaust from Queens Boulevard.

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Anonymous

Unlike the venue under the El? This way no chaaange! bum and bird shit.
Taste of Sunnyside, in Woodside
Taste of Long Island City, in Astoria

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Anonymous

forget the restrictions for under the el which is owned by the DOT — the pigeons and the homeless were the problem let’s be real —

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Ming lee

The homeless across the street at the hotel are going to crash the gate. How can you dangle food in front of starving people and not expect them to try to get in. It’s like feeding a cat, they will follow you home.

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