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Quick Checklist: Planning a Team Building Outing Made Easy If you’re an office manager, HR professional, or admin juggling multiple responsibilities, this is what planning a private food tour actually looks like: ✅ Choose a preferred date and time ✅ Estimate your group size ✅ Note any dietary needs or accessibility requests ✅ Submit one Private Tour Request Form ✅ Receive a response from Foods of NY Tours within 24 hours ✅ Let Foods of NY Tours handle the logistics ✅ Show up, relax, and enjoy the outing with your team Simple, streamlined, and low-stress—exactly what a team outing should be. _________________________________________________________________________________________ If you’re the person responsible for planning your company’s next team building outing, you already know the pressure. You need something employees will enjoy, leadership will approve, and you can realistically plan without it taking over your week. That’s…

Queens has a rich history of multi cultural foods offered all throughout the borough, and has been long considered the go to place for great, cheap ethnic eats!  You can literally travel all over the culinary world within a few block radius in many parts of Queens.  So it would only make sense that Queens…

Home Restaurant Are you tired of the Winter weather? We are too! And are you feeling the need to bust out and dine al fresco, but worried that it’s not quite warm enough yet? Yeah, we feel you. Indulge in our list of: NYC’s Top 5 Outdoor Gardens EVEN in Winter 1. Palma Enjoy the warmth…

The Meatpacking district over the past 15 years has developed itself from industrial meat processing to a fashion and nightlife destination.  The early morning landscape of cow sides and pork shoulders being throw into trucks to saturate NYC restaurants have been transformed into weary eyed clubbers collapsing into ubers to take them to their nearest…

Did you know that french fries are pretty popular all over the world, with each country putting their cultural stamp on the crispy classic?  There are so many varieties – from classic American fries to Poutine to Patatas Bravas – and I’ve found em right here in NYC.  So here’s your fry education for the…

Dear Danielle, I’ve recently moved to the village from the Upper East Side and cannot find a good dine-in Chinese restaurant in New York City. I liked Mr K’s uptown – do you have favorites down here I can try? Dear Ann, After much internet research and polling of our highly knowledgeable tour guides (including…

Are you looking to try out some great $1 Oyster Happy Hours? Do the words sweet, clean, salty, rich or meaty interest you? If so, you should check out these three oyster spots for some of the tastiest deals in town!  I went ahead and tried them all first so you know just what to…

Dear Danielle, I’m new to the city and looking to find my go-to ice cream place, especially as this heat wave continues. Problem is: There are so many to choose from! Help me satisfy my craving! Love, Ice Scream, You Scream Dear Ice Cream, You Scream, I totally feel your brain freeze pain.  The options…

FOODS OF NY: Heart & Soul of Greenwich Village TOUR REVIEW THROWBACK THURSDAY: A TASTE OF JUSTICE AT THE BEARD HOUSE: The Beard House kitchen has played host to a panoply of culinary titans over the years, but on very rare occasions a guest upstairs will rival the star power cooking below. This Throwback Thursday, we’re…

A little bit about Prodigy: While tasting Prodigy’s coffee, I spoke with Manager Ashley.   Ashley informed me that Prodigy has been around for 3 and half years.  Owned and operated by two long time friends and restaurant veterans.  Chris (part owner), is also the owner of Gotham Coffee Roasters in Brooklyn, NY where Prodigy…