{"id":196817,"date":"2026-04-14T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:05:11","slug":"return-date-ticket-prices-lineup-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196817\/","title":{"rendered":"Return Date, Ticket Prices, Lineup and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing marks the start of warmer weather like the festival circuit. And one of the best food festivals in the world<\/a> is making its return this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Queens Night Market<\/a> is returning for its 11th season for a sneak preview this Saturday, April 18. The longstanding, open-air food market will once again take over New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, attracting thousands of hungry souls to \u201cThe World\u2019s Borough.\u201d Over its decade-plus run, the market has\u00a0featured cuisines from over 100 countries,\u00a0launched 500 new businesses\u00a0and has attracted over four million people to Queens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED: Looking back at 10 years of Queens Night Market, the no. 1 ranked food festival in the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n

Over 60 vendors will be in attendance this year, serving bites and drinks from Nepal to Peru.\u00a0You’ll get\u00a0to\u00a0nosh on Filipino silog from Sampaguita Eats, Nigerian meat pies and moi moi from Soronko Kitchen and Bakery, Dominican quipes and orejita fritas from Baez Flavor Co. and so much more. And, despite our current economic uncertainty and rising costs overall, the market is extending its $6 price cap for one last year, thanks to its sponsors Citizens and Citizens Philanthropic Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cKeeping the $6 price cap in place since 2017 hasn\u2019t been easy,\u201d said the founder of Queens Night Market, John Wang, in a press release, citing 35% inflation and tariffs. \u201cIt\u2019s required the leanest of business models, passing every possible cost saving along to the vendors, and ultimately to the customers.\u201d Wang notes that the food festival is always on the hunt for additional investment from companies, foundations and philanthropists interested in support.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Queens Night Market is selling a limited number of tickets for two sneak preview events this month: Saturday, April 18th, and Saturday, April 25th. Tickets are priced at $5 online and $8 at the door, if available. Children under 12 are free. At least 20% of net ticket proceeds will be donated to charity. \u00a0<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t make it to either weekend in April, the market officially kicks off on May 2nd with free entry. But if you want to beat the crowds (reminder: roughly 20,000 visitors make it out to the fest every Saturday), we say reserve your tickets now<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing marks the start of warmer weather like the festival circuit. And one of the best food festivals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2590,1733,2520,4305,9,11,10,2591,821],"class_list":{"0":"post-196817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-categories-restaurants","9":"tag-good-for-good-for-going-in-a-group","10":"tag-good-for-good-for-going-with-friends","11":"tag-more-free","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-news-eating","16":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}