Helen Y.
Yelp
We came here for the Escapemakers event, presenting samples of local foods and ideas for local travel. The building itself is gorgeous, with architecture and stairs you wish you could slowly float down wearing a long, filmy, white toga. There is interesting African Art inside, though like most, we were concentrating more on the free food.
The event itself was loads of fun, with pulled pork samples from Dinosaur BBQ that just opened up a branch in Brooklyn, and very generous bakery samples from Allan's Bakery on Nostrand Avenue. Allan's was giving out their spectacular bread pudding, their red velvet cake, small meat patties and raisin pastry, which I thought was a little too heavy. There was a chef dishing out gumbo and another vendor giving out superb delicious fizzy sodas made with their syrup and supplying recipes. Local farms upstate were represented and came with yogurt and cheese samples, one being the famous Cabots. Red Jacket was also generous with their apples, beautiful Goldens and Honeycrisp. Local wineries were there, serving portions of their wines. Hey, do you know that if you can't drive, you can take the Hampton Jitney to the Borghese vineyard? Or take a trip through Vintage Tours?(www.Vintagetour1.com). Amtrak was their promoting rail trips also. The whole thing was a nice tasting event in a beautiful venue that offered education on the farms and numerous places available in New York and Vermont for short trips. Before the event, I never even knew the Moore Street Market existed. Now it's a destination for me. I would also come back to Brooklyn Borough Hall to see it more thoroughly.
