Great Neck street festival
Singapore street noodles are served at Sip City, a bar and restaurant in Great Neck. (September 19, 2010) Credit: Yana Paskova
This Sunday, the Village of Great Neck Plaza holds its annual Street Festival-Autofest. The streets around the LIRR station — Middle Neck Road, Grace Avenue and Bond Street — will be closed to traffic and open to rides (both carnival and pony), a petting zoo, an antiques market, live music as well as a collection of antique cars including the Alco-6 Racer, winner of the 1909 and 1910 Long Island Vanderbilt Cup Race.
On the food front, many local businesses will be running specials and street-side takeout.
Sip City (16 Middle Neck Rd., 516-482-1500) will open its doors and windows, and inside patrons can enjoy the brunch menu, a Radeberger draft beer promotion and “morning cocktails.” (“It’s 5 p.m. somewhere,” noted general manager John Capobianco.) Outside, the restaurant will be selling takeout versions of some signature dishes: lobster roll ($8), Singapore street noodles ($5), Kobe beef sliders ($5) and shoestring fried ($3).
Poultry Mart (33 Middle Neck Rd., 516-487-7150) will be serving, among other favorites, roast chicken, fried chicken, fried rice, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob.
And Lola (113 Middle Neck Rd., 516-466-5666) will be opening at noon to serve an assortment of tapas (prices range from $6 to $15) including duck-tenderloin sliders, garlic shrimp, goat-cheese-filled pequillo pepper, roast halibut with broken olive-oil vinaigrette, saffron-scented fish paella, Spanish croquetta, torchon of foie gras with kumquats and homemade hummus.
SIngapore street noodles at Sip City
