Winter’s Eve, the blowout annual food and music fest put on by the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District, is coming to Lincoln Square on Monday starting at 5:30 p.m.
The festival stretched from the Time Warner Center to 68th street on Broadway. Food booths will run up and down Broadway from 6 to 8:30, and performers will be romping throughout the area. Ice sculpting takes place at the Time Warner Center.
The festival kicks off at 5:30 with a tree lighting ceremony in Dante Park at Broadway and 63rd Street. Among the performers slated to play at the kickoff are folk legend Arlo Gurthrie and Michael Bacon of the Bacon Bros.
It can get very crowded at the food stations, and be prepared to wait in line for at least 10 minutes for the most popular booths.
Below, check out a list of the locations of the food booths. Remember, this may be the only time in your life you get to sample food from Masa, the insanely expensive sushi spot, and other fancy local restaurants. Fir more information, click here.
Time Warner Center: Columbus Circle
A Voce
Asiate, at the Mandarin Oriental, New York
Bouchon Bakery
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola & Great Performances
Gabriel’s Bar & Restaurant
Landmarc
MASA And Bar MASA
Porter House | Center Bar
Sapphire Indian Cuisine
Lincoln Square’s Restaurant Row: Broadway between 62nd & 64th Streets
American Table Cafe & Bar
Arpeggio Food & Wine
Atlantic Grill Lincoln Center
Bar Boulud
Boulud Sud
Breadsoul Café
Café Fiorello
Ed’s Chowder House
Lincoln Ristorante
Magnolia Bakery
P.J. Clarke’s
Rosa Mexicano
The Smith
Telepan
’wichcraft
Richard Tucker Park: Broadway between 65th & 66th Streets
Andanada
Europan Bakery Cafe
Francesco Pizzeria
Gourmet Garage
Grandaisy
Indie Food & Wine
La Boite En Bois
Le Pain Quotidien
LUCE Restaurant
This sounds like a fabulous neighborhood event. Wouldn’t it have been nice to know about it EARLIER than the day of. Share your knowledge sooner so we can all participate.
Not sure how anyone who lives anywhere near the area can say they didn’t know about this event. There have been street signs, flyers, posters in participating store windows, and sidewalk sandwich boards for a few weeks. Maybe you all need to open your eyes to more than just a website.
That said, this is always a nice neighborhood evening, yet each year it amazes me that people will wait on long lines on a few incredibly crowded streets for bite-size portions of food that’s no great bargain (given the size), has to be eaten while standing within that same crowd, and always available at the restaurants that participate.
Readers of the “Spare Times” page appearing in this past Friday, November 29’s New York Times would have known about the Lincoln Square Winter’s Eve festivities, as it was mentioned on both the ‘For Grownups’ AND the ‘For Kids’ halves of that wonderfully informative page.
Hoorah! For once, print scooped online!
Yay, print!
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I agree – too late to get the kids out now. What a shame.
echoing mara’s comments – really disappointing to be reading about an awesome event after it happened