Restaurant and bar openings and events in NYC

Peruse Time Out's list of the best food and drinking events in New York City this week.

By Time Out editors

Henry Cole

Henry Cole and the Afrobeat Collective

  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice

Henry Cole, a scarily advanced Puerto Rican drummer who works regularly with saxist Miguel Zenón, heads up his own band, an eclectic Afrobeat ensemble souped up with heady rock atmospherics.

  1. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (at Frederick P. Rose Hall) Broadway, at 60th St, 10019
  2. Sun May 19
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Henry Cole

Henry Cole and the Afrobeat Collective

  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice

Henry Cole, a scarily advanced Puerto Rican drummer who works regularly with saxist Miguel Zenón, heads up his own band, an eclectic Afrobeat ensemble souped up with heady rock atmospherics.

  1. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (at Frederick P. Rose Hall) Broadway, at 60th St, 10019
  2. Sun May 19
More info
Roberta's

Mad. Sq. Eats 2013

  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice

Save yourself the subway fare—for 28 days only, this semiannual pop-up market brings the best grub from throughout the five boroughs right to Madison Square Park. Third Rail Coffee will collaborate with Brooklyn locavores DreamScoops on an affogato, ice cream topped with a shot of hot espresso.

  1. Madison Square Park E 23rd St to E 26th St, between Fifth and Madison Aves
  2. Mon May 20 - Fri May 31
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Manhattan Cocktail Classic opening night gala 2012

The Manhattan Cocktail Classic

  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice

In the four years since its inception, the Manhattan Cocktail Classic has become just that, a classic. The five-day cocktail fest raises a glass to New York’s boozy best, popping the cork with the dapper Opening Night Gala on May 17. The city’s most fashionable sippers and shakers pour into the New

  1. Various locations
  2. Tue May 21 - Wed May 22
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Smorgasburg

Smorgasburg

  • Critics choice
  • Free

The venerable epicurean extravaganza returns the weekend of April 6, spending Saturdays in Williamsburg's East River State Park (enter at North 7th Street) and Sundays in Brooklyn Bridge Park at the walled-in, open-air Tobacco Warehouse through the summer. The 2013 iteration features returning

  1. The Tobacco Warehouse 26 New Dock St, at Water St
  2. Sat May 25 - Sun Nov 24
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Brooklyn Uncorked 2013

  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice

Celebrate 40 years of Long Island winemaking with limitless samples of award-winning vinos and grub inside of one of Brooklyn’s most breathtaking spaces. Each L.I. winery will partner with a local eatery to serve up a customized pairing menu—such as One Woman Wine’s 2011 Grüner Veltliner with Good

  1. Skylight One Hanson 1 Hanson Pl, at Flatbush Ave
  2. Wed May 29
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Tenth Anniversary Spirits of Mexico

  • Price band: 3/4
  • Critics choice

The tequila-soaked South of the Border fest ups its game for its tenth anniversary. Returning to Astor Center, a tastemaker panel—including authors Gregg Glaser (Modern Distillery Age) and Ian Williams (Tequila: A Global History)—will blind-taste a selection of brands and mingle with guests. Your

  1. Astor Center 399 Lafayette St, at 4th St
  2. Wed May 29
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Eat the City High Line Meat Tour

  • Price band: 2/4

Author and gastronome Robin Shulman, who penned NYC-food-history book Eat the City, leads this walking tour. You’ll learn about the culinary history of the neighborhoods surrounding the High Line, from 19th-century farmers’ markets to the days when the Meatpacking District was a place where meat

  1. The High Line Washington St at Gansevoort St, to Tenth Ave at 30th St
  2. Wed Jun 5
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Your perfect Fourth of July

  • Price band: 1/4
  • Free

July 4 Born to be wild There are plenty of ways to pay tribute to America's birthday today, but if fireworks and John Philip Sousa marches are too bombastic for your sensibilities, head to a screening of the irreverent but sublimely all-American classic Easy Rider (Bryant Park, enter at Sixth Ave

Revelation of the Kalachakra Mandala to the First King

Ten must-see works at the Rubin Museum of Art

  • Price band: 1/4

Good for: Spiritualists Lukhang mural imagesPhotojournalist Thomas Laird and photographer Clint Clemens snapped pics of murals in the Dalai Lama's private temple at his winter residence, the Potala Palace, in 2009; their digital images capture the cracks and water damage the works have suffered

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