Several Queens residents were on hand for the Queens International Food and Music Festival on Sunday, Aug. 16, at Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto Park.
Photo by Alice Moreno
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The Queens International Food and Music Festival marked its ninth year of operation on Sunday, Aug. 16, at Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto Park in Richmond Hill.
The event featured a plethora of food and music from all over the world and was free and open to the public.
Photo by Alice Moreno
Tables featured at the event included EmblemHealth (the Grand and Title Sponsor of the event), Cottage Home Care Services, Leonora Primary School, Clasique Cutz Barbershop, Island Zone Radio, Legend Cookhouse, JN Money, Sovereign Realty of NY, Pinnacle Signature Realty LLC and Dave’s Guyana Fish and Grocery Market. Many of these tables gave out freebies, such as tote bags, T-shirts, pens, stress balls, chip clips, popcorn and more.
At the festival, guests could try a wide array of food options. At Dave’s Guyana Fish and Grocery’s table, there were drinks of different flavors and delicacies from Guyana to try and purchase. Legend Cookhouse, a Guyanese/Caribbean restaurant, had an assortment of sauces on sale, and Yummy Dips sold chocolate-covered strawberries.
Dave’s Guyana Fish and Grocery’s table. Photo by Alice Moreno
Photo by Alice Moreno
Yummy Dips had chocolate-covered strawberries for sale. Photo by Alice Moreno
The event also included a cooking contest. For two hours, restaurants such as Food by Parika, Regent Lounge and Kaieteur Restaurant were tasked with a challenge to complete a dish – duck curry and baigan choka. The best-tasting one was crowned the winner.
Photo by Alice Moreno
Photo by Alice Moreno
Photo by Alice Moreno
Throughout the event, guests also got to enjoy musical acts from various artists of Guyanese and Caribbean descent, which included singing and dancing. Musical acts featured included Brian Mohan, a Trinidad and Tobago-based artist singing Bollywood hits, and Randy “Recklez” Ramdin, a Queens-based Caribbean artist who performed alongside Angels Caribbean Band (ACB), and Geeta Bisram, frontwoman of ACB. A dance performance was held by Dancing Queen Shelly Ramnanan, a cultural dance troupe.
Photo by Alice Moreno