On Saturday and Sunday, Pier 54 was packed with food fans for the New York Food and Wine Festival’s Grand Tasting events. Twenty-nine restaurants (30 on Sunday) served dishes ranging from small bites (Fatty Crab’s chicken wings, Convivio's chicken liver crostini) to mini entrees (Pamplona’s braised Washugyu brisket with Manchego rice and black olive sauce, Molyvos’s house-cured Scottish salmon with sumac-marinated onions and a chickpea cake) to 4,000 festival-goers, who shelled out $150 a ticket, each day.
Even though it was a sunny 70 degrees, an autumnal influence could be found in ingredients like apples and butternut squash and lots of rich braised and roasted meats. Other prominent flavors on offer were mustard, duck, and seafood with tropical flavors. Here are a few examples of the dishes from Saturday’s selection.
