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On May 17, the 31st annual Taste of Tribeca took place on Duane and Greenwich Streets with food sampling and purchase opportunities from around 60 local restaurants. There was also a Kids' Zone with crafts and a Sports Zone with games. Proceeds from Taste of Tribeca go to fund arts and enrichment programs at PS 150 and PS 234.

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The Brooklyn Chop House, one of 48 restaurants at this year's Dine Around Downtown — described as a "feast of Lower Manhattan restaurants" — has been highly praised on the Internet for its food, ambience and service. Despite its name, it is located in Lower Manhattan at 150 Nassau St.

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Café Jalu in the luxury French department store, Printemps, at 1 Wall St. brought some delectable pastries to Dine Around Downtown. They included passion fruit macarons, mini croissants and pistachio orange financiers.

(Photo: © Terese Loeb Kreuzer)

The Greek presented a Thanksgiving buffet featuring highlights from the regular menu as well as some Thanksgiving specials including turkey and stuffing. (Photos: © Terese Loeb Kreuzer)

Beckett's Bar & Grill was one of 48 restaurants with a booth at the 2025 edition of the Dine Around Downtown food festival on Fosun Plaza. The offerings from Beckett's included a crab cake slider with tartar sauce and a lobster Mac and cheese.

(Photo: © Terese Loeb Kreuzer)

Photos from this year's Taste of Tribeca: Duane Street; Freshly baked doughnuts from Gigino Trattoria; Tea service from Warren St. Hotel; Sweet potatoes from L'Abeille. (Photos: © Terese Loeb Kreuzer)

The Greek Tribeca, a Keystone for the Neighborhood

Dine Around Downtown Festival

June 11: The Alliance for Downtown New York, Lower Manhattan’s nonprofit business improvement district, hosted 48 neighborhood restaurants at the 2025 Dine Around Downtown festival, which took place on Fosun’s landmarked plaza at 28 Liberty St. Restaurants offered signature menu items ranging in price from $5 to $10; beverages were available for purchase as well.

Launched in 1997, Dine Around Downtown has grown in size and scale as more and more restaurants have opened in Lower Manhattan. This year’s festival featured almost three times more restaurants than were present at the first Dine Around. Highlights included everything from neighborhood classics to a wide variety of gluten free and vegetarian friendly menu items to an array of ethnic cuisines and more. In addition, this year’s vendors included first time Dine Around participants such as Café Jalu (from the brand new Printemps department store), Brooklyn Chop House and La Marchande.

Taste Of Tribeca

May 17, 2025

The Greek, formerly called "Greca," has been a neighborhood amenity in northwestern Tribeca since it opened at 452 Washington St. in 2017. A family-owned and operated restaurant, from the beginning it offered well-made food at less than stratospheric prices. When Covid-19 hit in 2020 and indoor gatherings were deemed risky or prohibited, "Greca" as it was then called enlarged its grocery offerings so that people could stop in briefly and buy vegetables, dairy products and other things they needed to cook at home. A bakery on the premises made bread. For those who wanted to stay and eat, tables were set up outside under the shelter of a roof that was part of the construction then going on in the building in which Greca was located. Although many restaurants went under during the Covid-19 pandemic, Greca wasn't one of them. It survived because it reinvented itself to serve the needs of its community.

Last year Greca officially changed its name to "The Greek" and renovated its premises. It also augmented its menu, retaining many of the dishes that customers have grown to love and offering some new ones based on the cooking of Thessaloniki in northern Greece where the family comes from and where Anastasia, the matriarch of the family, still lives. Among the items on the menu are lamb sausage served with feta yogurt and harissa, a stew comprised of seared steak and forest mushrooms topped with mizithra cheese, baked feta served with tomato, pepper and herbs, and stewed string beans accompanied by potatoes, made with flat beans called "Roma."

As of June 1, 2025, The Greek Tribeca is closed. It remains to be seen if it will reopoen.