Weekend Fare - NYTimes.com

Countless Oktoberfest celebrations are taking place at restaurants, bars and beer gardens around the city. One to notice is OktoberfestNYC, which runs Saturday through Oct. 7 in a pop-up German beer hall at 1 Penn Plaza, at 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue. A 6,000-square-foot tented beer garden will house long tables where German beers and food will be served. The pop-up is open 5 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to midnight on weekends.

Mad. Sq. Eats returns Friday for a monthlong run at Worth Square next to Madison Square Park ? where Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 25th Street converge ? in the Flatiron district. Nearly 30 vendors will be selling food and drinks from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily through Oct. 19.

Viva La Comida! puts the spotlight on the ethnic food of the city?s most diverse borough ??Queens ??on Friday from 4 to 9 p.m. at Dunningham Triangle, between 82nd Street and Baxter Avenue, on the border of Elmhurst and Jackson Heights. Besides a lineup of food trucks and participating local restaurants, there will be a pop-up crafts market and live entertainment.

Alain Allegretti celebrates the anniversary of Bistro La Promenade, 461 West 23rd Street (between Ninth and 10th Avenues), in Chelsea, with a special $45 prix fixe menu, which includes a wine pairing, available through Sunday, that showcases the restaurant?s new bistro-themed menu. The restaurant opened as La Promenade des Anglais when The Times reviewed it this year.

The Australian meat pie shop Pie Face, 507A Third Avenue (34th Street), in Murray Hill, will throw a Get ?Piefaced? Friday late-night special from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m. with free savory pies to celebrate its opening this week.

Brooklyn Local, a fund-raiser for City Harvest, will be Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Pier 1, 334 Furman Street, at Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo. More than 75 stands will sell food, beer and wine. Tickets are $10 at the market, or $40 for a family of two adults and up to four children. Tickets for the market and a special tasting tent open from noon to 2 p.m. are $75; tickets for the market and a happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. are $35. A pass for the entire event is $90 ($30 for children 5 to 12): cityharvest.org.

Max and Eli Sussman, brothers who are both chefs, will demonstrate recipes and sign copies of their new book, ?This Is a Cookbook,? at noon Saturday at the Williams-Sonoma store at Columbus Circle.

Unlimited oysters paired with beer, wine or Bloody Marys can be enjoyed during an oyster social thrown by Aureole restaurant on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at its outdoor plaza on 42nd Street between Seventh Avenue and Avenue of the Americas. Tickets are $75 in advance from (212) 319-1660 or aureoleevents@charliepalmer.com, and $85 at the event, with half the ticket price to benefit Citymeals-on-Wheels.

Wine Riot NYC, which features more than 300 wines from around the world for tastings, is Friday and Saturday at the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue (between 25th and 26th Streets), in Gramercy Park. While the Friday opening night is sold out, there are still tickets available online for Saturday, with tastings from 1 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 11 p.m. Tickets are $50 a person, and all wine is included. Attendees can take 20-minute crash courses with various wine producers and attend seminars throughout the day. Second Glass, which is putting on the event, is also promoting a new app that allows guests to vote for their favorite wines and to save information for wines they may want to purchase later.

The Edible Garden Festival at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx on Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., will include food to sample and a cooking demonstration by Mario Batali at 4:30 p.m. Tickets to the garden, including the Batali event, are $15 for members, $27 for students and people 65 and over, and $30 for others.

Taste the West Village brings chefs from about two dozen restaurants to the yard of P.S. 41, at Greenwich Avenue and Charles Street, to serve food and help raise money for the school on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Tickets are $45, $20 for children under 12 and $125 for a family of two adults and two children. Wristbands for alcohol consumption are $25.

A Sunday roast duck dinner for two opens this weekend at Alison Eighteen, 15 West 18th Street (between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas), in the Flatiron district, and runs through the end of the year. The special is $75 and includes a salad or soup, a whole duck that?s been roasted with seasonal vegetables, and a fruit cobbler for dessert. The first seating is at 5:45 p.m., and reservations can be made by calling (212) 366-1818.

The recently opened Chateau Cherbuliez, 47 West 20th Street (near Avenue of the Americas), in Chelsea, starts a weeknight oyster hour from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday with $1 oysters.

With fall openings in full swing, a number of restaurants are also beginning to serve brunch this weekend. At Junoon, 27 West 24th Street (between Broadway and Avenue of the Americas), in Chelsea, the chef Vikas Khanna will showcase his modern Indian recipes in dishes like naan French toast starting Saturday. After a soft opening over the summer, Principessa, 199 Prince Street (between Macdougal and Sullivan Streets), in SoHo, held its official grand opening this week and is now starting brunch, Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m., with items like a $15 bacon, egg and cheese pizza paired with prosecco. Also with an Italian focus is Ristorante Rafele, 29 Seventh Avenue South (Morton Street), in the West Village, where brunch will be served noon to 3:30 p.m.

Source: http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/weekend-fare-110/

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