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Day 1: Into the Heart of Flushing
This afternoon, meet the group for introductions and a welcome snack in the heart of Flushing, a neighborhood filled with restaurants, food courts, and markets that serve the area’s mostly Chinese and Korean populations. We’ll make our way to a local Sichuan restaurant for a welcome banquet with a local historian. After dinner, we’ll head to a nearby rooftop lounge for cocktails made with traditionally Chinese and Korean ingredients, capping off the night with a stunning view of Manhattan.
We recommend staying in Flushing, Queens
Dinner
Day 2: Queens’ Transglobal Highway
Today is dedicated to exploring Roosevelt Avenue, one of the most culturally—and culinarily—diverse commercial thoroughfares in the United States. We’ll meet up in the late morning in Flushing before kicking things off with a Mexican-style brunch of barbacoa (pit-roasted goat) at a family-run restaurant. From there, we’ll make our way along Roosevelt, ducking into markets and stopping by a side-street evangelical church that, on weekends, sells some of Queens’ finest pupusas. We’ll then head into Jackson Heights, a hub for New York’s Indian and Nepalese communities, to taste some local specialties in the neighborhood’s hidden restaurants and explore some of the area’s lesser-known cultural attractions.
We recommend staying in Flushing, Queens
Lunch; Snacks throughout
Day 3: Along the Silk Road
Our last day will be spent exploring one of Queens’ most interesting—and lesser-visited—immigrant neighborhoods. We’ll meet once again in Flushing in the late morning, and from there set out for a family-run kosher bakery where we’ll enjoy traditional Central Asian foods like toke, non, and samsas, from their tandoori-like oven. We’ll visit several other neighborhood spots, including a small restaurant that serves up homestyle Bukharan Jewish fare and a wondrous little museum devoted to the community’s culture and history. The area of Rego Park is sometimes referred to as the “Jewish Silk Road” due to the large number of Bukharan Jews living in the area. To finish our Silk Road journey, we’ll stop into a kosher Georgian restaurant for a proper “supra”—a lavish feast where we’ll get to taste some of the highlights of Georgia’s utterly unique cuisine. Here, we can raise a toast to three days of local discoveries and excellent eats.
Snacks, Lunch
Itineraries and daily schedules are subject to change. We expect to do everything listed in the itinerary, though the order may be rearranged based on weather or other local conditions.
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