Astoria

Welcome to the season of street fairs! They happen all over Astoria and LIC, and offer food, trinkets, live music, and more. So without further ado, here’s the list (we’ll (…)

We Heart Astoria Food Talk covers Queens Beer Week, the Bifteki Burger at Sparrow, Astoria’s four best new restaurants, Cinco de Mayo at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, Queens County Market at the Queens County Farm Museum, and ices at La Guli Pastry Shop.

We Heart Astoria twitter follower forwarded this photo he took of a new coffee shop/cafe that will open on Crescent Street near 30th Avenue soon. It’s a little hard to (…)

A while back I mentioned that the Fast Break—which was a corner store/bodega type place (it actually reminded me a little bit of the AM/PM Minimart chain in California)—on Ditmars (…)

This year Easter falls on the same day for the Western and Eastern Churches, so it’s “silence of the lambs” for all! Here are some way to enjoy the (mostly) (…)

This just in—a WHA tipster tells us the following EXCITING news: The Mexico Blvd truck is opening a permanent location on 36th Ave and 32nd Street the first week of (…)

You may be aware that two—and later three—mega developments are planned for the Astoria waterfront on that little peninsula that sticks out south of Astoria Park. The two developments are (…)

We heard that a Vietnamese spot has opened up in Astoria, Saigon Cafe. From what we can tell, it’s both a place to eat and surf the net, and they (…)

We Heart Astoria Food Talk focuses on Queens Beer week, including Snowdonia’s mac ‘n cheese burger, Astoria Beer & Brew’s home brewing event, vegan eats at The Bao Shoppe, a new Italian restaurant from the cooks at NYC’s Il Mulino and more!

Buffalo Exchange’s Dollar Day Sale is coming this Saturday, April 19th – all day!

Last month we told you that Bistro 33 was closing, to transition into a new restaurant, Bowery Bay. Well, they had their official opening this past weekend and the folks (…)

We mentioned Republic briefly last November: Through a WHA tip, we’ve learned that a spot at 33-29 Astoria Blvd North is going to be a restaurant. It’s approximately 2,000 square (…)

We got pretty excited when we saw the news on DNAinfo about a new distiller setting up shop in Astoria, aptly called Astoria Distilling Company. Their first spirit, to be (…)

About a year ago, Salon de Cafe opened up on 34th Avenue next to Cevabdzinica Sarajevo (home to amazing Bosnian food). They remained a coffee shop for a while, and thanks to (…)

As most of you know, in addition to my duties here at WHA, I’m also the proud owner of Lockwood Shop on 33rd Street. And boy do I have big (…)