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  • Discount Tickets for the New York Coffee Festival, October 12 – 14, 2018

    New York Coffee Festival Discount Tickets:

    Discount tickets for the New York Coffee Festival (at the Metropolitan Pavilion October 12 – 14) are available for $19 – $65 (regular full-price is $29 – $110). Saturday and Sunday Single-day tickets are available for  $19 for standard timed admission and $29 for VIP all-day admission. A multi-day Super VIP ticket is available for $65.  See the ticket offer details.

    The discounted tickets are sold by Goldstar, a national provider of reduced price entertainment tickets.

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    About the New York Coffee Festival:

    The 2018 New York Coffee Festival takes place October 12 – 14.

    This year’s festival will be held at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues.

    The Coffee Festival feature live experiences from over 85 coffee, food, and equipment suppliers. Attendees can enjoy endless free coffee tastings, interactive workshops, demonstrations from world-class baristas, delicious street food, intoxicating coffee cocktails, live music, art, and more.

    The event is broken down into several three-hour sessions. Saturday: Morning session: 9:30am-12:30pm; Afternoon session: 12:30pm-3:30pm; Late session: 3:30pm-6:30pm.  Sunday: Morning session: 9:30am-1:00pm;
    Afternoon session: 1:00pm-4:30pm.

    Get your reduced-price Coffee Festival tickets at Goldstar.

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  • Discount Brooklyn Wine Festival Tickets – $22.50!

    Get a ticket to Session 1 or Session 2 of the Brooklyn Wine Fest for just $22.50 with Goldstar’s 20 Pop! Sale and the POPJULY Promo Code.

    Get the special $20 Brooklyn Wine Festival deal at Goldstar (to total price, with service fees, before using the promo code, will be $27.50)

    Use promo code POPJULY at check out for $5 off, for a total ticket price of $22.50.

    Full-price tickets at the Wine Fest website are $60 + $4.30 in fees

    Brooklyn Wine Festival at the Brooklyn Expo Center – Saturday, September 29, 2018

    To get your $15 ticket, choose the “special” $20 ticket at Goldstar and use Promo Code POPJULY  for an additional $5 off.

    At the Brooklyn Wine Festival, you’ll enjoy three-and-a-half hours of tastings that’ll take you across the Atlantic to Spain and Austria, down through the Mediterranean, stopping by Italy and Greece, then plunging south of the equator to South Africa, before jetting over to the Land Down Under and boomeranging around to South America and back up through the good ol’ USA. Your in-flight meal, should you choose to purchase it, is equally representative of all the tastiest corners of the world. Your journey is set to a soundtrack of live music, and if you can pry yourself away from the vino, there will be fun activities to enjoy. Book your passage now at the Brooklyn Expo Center. No trip should end without a souvenir, and this one’s no different: You’ll leave with a 5-oz. souvenir tasting glass.

    Visit the official Brooklyn Wine Festival website for details about the event.

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  • NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2018 July 23 – August 17

    It’s time for the annual summer edition of New York Restaurant Week!

    Restaurant Week dates are July 23 – August 17, 2018.

    The way Restaurant Week works is that restaurants offer 2-course lunch and 3-course dinner menus at a set special price. There are many restaurants to choose from. Reservations are suggested and you can make reservations online at the Restaurant Week website.

    Meal prices are $26 for a 2-Course Lunch or $42 for a 2-Course Dinner.

    Restaurants offer a minimum of three choices for appetizers and three choices for entrées at lunch ($26). Restaurants offer a minimum of three choices for appetizers, three choices for entrées and at least two desserts at dinner ($42).

    This year’s participating restaurants are grouped into “collections” to help you choose where you’d like to dine. Some collection names are a little more obvious than others. There are NYC Classics, Best-Kept Secrets,  BYO SPF (patio dining), Squad Goals (group-friendly), Swipe Right (romantic), Diner is the Show (big on presentation), Expense It (business-friendly), and Sunday Funday (brunch).

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  • Get Free Meals with the New York Sightseeing Pass


    NYC Sightseeing Pass    If you’ve done some research on visiting New York City, you are probably aware that there are several attraction passes available that provide admission to multiple New York City attractions for one pre-paid price.

    There’s CityPass, The New York Pass, The New York Explorer Pass, and the New York Sightseeing Pass. See our breakdown of how each of these passes work.

     

    The New York Sightseeing Pass Includes Dining!

    We’ve only found one pass that provides meals.

    The New York Sightseeing Pass includes several dining options on its list of included attractions.

    Pass holders can take advantage of $15 to spend on meals at Buca di Beppo Times Square, $25 to spend at Buffalo Wild Wings in Brooklyn, Harlem, or Times Square, and $15 to spend toward lunch at Planet Hollywood Times Square.

    Another way to get a meal in with your attraction pass is to take one of the culinary walking tours offered. Some specialize in deserts, but most offer a variety of foods, allowing you to get a meal in while seeing the city.

    The New York Sightseeing Pass offers 11 different Food on Foot Tours, including International Express, Union Square Area Eats, Midtown Mix, East Village Variety, and more.

     

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  • Taste of Times Square

    Annual Times Square Food Festival

    Taste of Times Square takes place in June of each year. The event features food from over 40 Times Square restaurants, plus live music.

    The 2017 Taste of Times Square date is Monday, June 5th and the hours are 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

    Booths with food sampling are located on West 46th Street from Broadway to 10th Avenue.

    Festival admission is free. Tasting tickets are $1 each and the price for each dish ranges from two to six tickets. You can purchase tickets at the event or in advance online.

    See a list of participating restaurants.

    Visit the Times Square website for details.

    See Yelp reviews of previous year’s events.

     

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  • Free Saturday and Sunday Brooklyn Brewery Tours

    Have you ever toured a brewery? Well, here’s your chance. The Brooklyn Brewery offers free tours of their facilities on Saturdays and Sundays. They offer tours other days of the week too, but there’s a charge for those.

    The weekend tours start at noon on Saturday and depart every half hour from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and start at noon on Sunday and run every half hour from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. You can pick up a tour ticket at the brewery’s Company Store beginning an hour before the tour’s start time. The tours are limited to 40 people and are first-come-first-served. The brewery’s website provides the details on how all of this works.

    You can try the beer, but that’s not free. Beer tokens are $5 each or 5 for $20.

    Please visit the Brooklyn Brewery website to confirm details before heading out to the brewery.

    The Brooklyn Brewery is located at 79 North 11th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue. Directions.

    While you’re in Brooklyn, check out all the shops and eateries in the trendy Williamsburg neighborhood.  If you go on a Saturday, Smorgasburg is nearby.

     

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  • NYC Restaurant Week – Winter 2017

    The Winter 2017 edition of NYC Restaurant Week happens January 23 – February 10, 2017 (Saturdays are excluded and some restaurants don’t participate on Sundays). We’re not sure why they call it Restaurant Week when it goes on for almost four weeks, but the extra time is good news for anyone who wants to try out some NYC restaurants at discount prices.

    A list of participating restaurants is posted at the Restaurant Week website. The prices for Restaurant Week 3-course meals are $29 for lunch and $42 for dinner.

    The way it works is that restaurants offer special three course lunch and dinner menus at a set special price. There are many restaurants to choose from. Reservations are suggested and you can make reservations online at the Restaurant Week website.

    Many of the participating restaurants have have provided links to their Restaurant Week menus on the Restaurant Week website. It’s fun to look at the variety of dishes offered.

    American Express Card holders can get $5 back on Restaurant Week meals by enrolling their card in the Restaurant Week promotion and using their AMEX card to pay for their meals. The offer is good for a $5 statement credit when you spend $35 at participating restaurants. You can get up to 4 statement credits. Details.

    Other winter-time NYC promotions that coincide with Restaurant Week dates are Broadway Week (2-for-1 theater tickets, January 17 – February 5) and Attractions Week (2-for-1 tickets to tours, museums, and attractions, January 17 – February 5).

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  • Discount on Dinner & Dancing for Two or Four at Sounds of Brazil

    Sounds of Brazil, also known as SOB, is a popular Manhattan music and dining venue that features South American dishes and dancing to live and DJ music.

    Both Groupon and LivingSocial are running offers.

    The Groupon offer is $75 for two people or $140 for four and includes, for each person, an appetizer, entree, Sangria, dessert, and admission to the concert series. The offer is good  on Fridays and Saturdays, for the first seating between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m..

    The LivingSocial offer is $70 for two people or $130 for four and includes, per person, one glass of Sangria, an appetizer, an entree, a desert, and   The offer is good for Fridays or Saturdays between 6:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.. The LivingSocial offer doesn’t say that it includes admission to the show.

    Sounds of Salsa is located at 204 Varick Street,

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  • Summer 2016 NYC Restaurant Week

    dining-colorThe dates have been announced for the 2016 summer edition of NYC’s Restaurant Week (which is actually longer than a week).

    Summer 2016 NYC Restaurant Week is July 25 – August 19.

    During Restaurant Week, participating restaurants offer specially-priced three-course lunch and dinner menus. The prices for the 2016 event haven’t been announced yet but last year’s prices were $25 for lunch and $38 for dinner.

    The list of participating restaurant and reservations will be available on July 11 at the Restaurant Week website.

     

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  • 2016 NYC Coffee and Tea Festival Discount Tickets

    NOTE: If you’re looking for discount tickets to the September 16 -18 2016 New York Coffee Festival at the 69th Regiment Armory, click here.

    Get discount tickets to the 2016 Coffee and Tea Festival NYC.  The dates are March 19 & 20, 2016.

    The festival is held at the Brooklyn Expo Center (79 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY).

    Hours are noon to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday.

    Regular full-price general admission is $25.00.  VIP admission is $35.  See discount offers below.

    Discount Ticket Options:

    Goldstar has General Admission Tickets for $18.750 ($15 + $3.75 service fee)

    Living Social has General Admission Tickets for $16.00.

    Promo codes are sometimes posted at the Coffee and Tea Festival Facebook Page.

     

    The event features over 60 exhibitors and more than 100 tastings to try. This event sells out every year, so don’t wait too long to get your tickets.

    The festival should be fun for anyone who enjoys coffee and tea. Exhibitors from around the world we be on hand to provide tastings of their products.  Sweet and savory foods to compliment the beverages will also be available.

    Note: Gift bags will be available for VIP ticketholders only. The VIP ticket allows early entry to the festival from 10:00 a.m. to noon.

     

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