Mark your calendars!...The 2011 Ninth Avenue International Food Festival, May 14th and 15th. Taking place in this annual event will be Ninth Avenue local merchants serving an array of ethnic foods which are representative of the different cultures in our neighborhood. May 14th & 15th 2011, 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM, 9th Avenue, New York City, 42-57th St., Rain or Shine!!
Meanwhile, this past week, New York Post saluted some select Hell's Kitchen eateries:
“The whole neighborhood is changing. There’s a younger crowd who likes finer things. They used to go [farther east] or downtown — now they don’t have to,” says Eric Hara, the former Oak Room chef who just opened two new restaurants on Ninth Avenue.
More high-profile venues are on the way: In June, the forthcoming Yotel hotel at 570 10th Ave. will debut a fourth-floor restaurant called DohYo, with the largest outdoor space in the city. And an outpost of London’s Cantonese hot spot Hakkasan will fling open its doors at 311 W. 43rd St. in November. Meanwhile, the promise of a new 7 train terminal at 34th Street and 11th Avenue is luring prospectors farther south...
