This Week’s Five Best Food and Drink Events in NYC – 5/4/2015

Need some spring in your step? Here are this week’s five best food and drink events.

Get Cultured! Yogurt Tasting & Book Signing, Greene Grape Annex, 753 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, Monday, 6 p.m.

Author Cheryl Sternman Rule and food journalist Melissa Clark are leading a conversation on why you should love probiotics, and in addition to learning more about the history behind this superfood, guests will receive samples from yogurt makers like The White Moustache. The event is free to attend; guests can also purchase a signed copy of Rule’s book to bring their newfound knowledge home.

The Village Voice‘s Fourth Annual Choice Streets Food Truck Event, Pier 86, 46th Street and West Side Highway, Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Tired of having to track down your favorite food truck? Pick up a ticket for Choice Streets, which features more than twenty of the city’s most popular food trucks. Snack on Korean tacos from Korilla BBQ or cool down with classic sweets from the Vintage Ice Cream Guys. A full lineup of participating food trucks and ticket packages starting at $55 are available via the Choice Streets event website.

Chef Hung’s Pop Up Series: Travels of Marco Polo, Petaluma, 1356 First Avenue, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

Swimming pools aren’t the only place you’ll find traces of Marco Polo this spring. Top Chef winner Hung Huynh’s pop-up dinner this week focuses on ingredients inspired by the famed explorer’s journey from Italy to the Far East; the five-course menu includes black sea bass crudo and clay pot lamb pappardelle with Sichuan chili. Reservations are $65 per person and do not include drinks.

New Happy Hour, Talde, 369 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, Thursday, 5 p.m.

From 5 to 7 p.m., Talde guests can unwind with half-priced seasonal margaritas, glasses of rosé, and beer at all of Dale Talde’s restaurants: Thistle Hill Tavern, Pork Slope, Carrino Provisions, and TALDE Jersey City. The offer includes Carrino Provisions’ prosecco.

Madison Square Eats, Madison Square Park, Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, Friday, 11 a.m.

Spend Friday lunch away from your desk by checking out this annual weeks-long pop-up market. New to this year’s lineup of nearly 30 food favorites are sushi hand rolls from Chris Jaeckle’s Uma Temakeria and Potpuri, which specializes in the Indian snack favorite chaat. Roberta’s and Momofuku Milk Bar are a couple of the returning favorites.