Eat Drink Local Week
Our annual Eat Drink Local Week, celebrated by Edibles around the Tri-state area, raises awareness about the bounty of products grown in the region, drives customers to the restaurants and other businesses that feature these products, and raises funds for charitable partners dedicated to regional agriculture throughout the state.
The fourth Eat Drink Local week kicks off June 23 and involves partners from the entire food chain, who urge you to dine out, cook in, and celebrate the ingredients, landscape and people behind our food and drink through a week’s worth of events, restaurant meals and cooking and drinking at home. What can you do to join in?
MAKE A RESTAURANT RESERVATION:
Be sure to make a reservation between June 23 and 30 to have an Eat Drink Local meal at our partner restaurants, which will be serving prix-fixe menus featuring our seasonal ingredients of the week (those are listed below). You can search our entire Eat Drink Local guide–which includes listings for restaurants, shops, wineries, bakeries and other retailers participating in the Week–or go directly to lists for your area below:
- Manhattan’s Eat Drink Local Restaurant Guide
- Brooklyn’s Eat Drink Local Restaurant Guide
- East End’s Eat Drink Local Restaurant Guide
SHOP WITH OUR PARTNERS:
Partner wineries, breweries, bakeries, cheese shops and other food businesses will be offering discounts during Eat Drink Local week. Search our Eat Drink Local guide–which also includes our restaurant partners–by neighborhood right here.
CELEBRATE THE INGREDIENTS OF THE WEEK:
Each year we pick one seasonal locally available ingredient, food group or beverage to highlight for each day of Eat Drink Local Week, and encourage our partnering businesses and home cooks to try them. This year those ingredients are: Spinach, Eggs, Goat (milk, cheese, yogurt, meat, etc.), Radishes, Rose Wines, Porgy, Fava Beans, and Hudson Valley hops.
COME TO AN EAT DRINK LOCAL EVENT:
1. June 20: Meet your Maker at the Brooklyn Brewery. Five groups will meet at Brooklyn Brewery, then go on tours to explore five local businesses nearby, such as coffee roasters and smokehouses. All tours will meet back up at the Brewery for beers, sandwiches and story swapping.
2. June 26: Our Eat Drink Local Festival of the Ingredients, still being planned: In addition to great snacks and locally sourced, seasonal drinks, eight restaurants will each be cooking with one of the eight featured ingredients above.
3. June 27: Children’s Museum of Manhattan will host an Eat Drink Local children’s open house, with kid-friendly, healthy cooking demos and short lectures for parents.
4. June 30: A Food and Film Night at Marder’s Gallery in Bridgehampton.
GET TO KNOW OUR 2012 SPONSORS:
Eat Drink Local Week 2o12 is made possible with help from the following businesses, each of which does its part to support local foodsheds:
Meatless Monday | Whole Foods Market | Brooklyn Brewery | Williams-Sonoma | New York Wine & Grape Foundation
DONATE TO OUR CHARITABLE PARTNERS:
A portion of proceeds from Eat Drink Local Week events and restaurant events will be donated to the following organizations, but they could also your help all year long.
