Coming soon: A Taste of Fifth Ave.

Image via parkslopestoop.comGet ready, Park Slope Foodies! The neighborhood’s most absurdly opulent event space, Grand Prospect Hall, is about to make your dreams come true! On April 10, the hall will host the annual A Taste of 5th, a chance to sample all of your favorite restaurants along 5th Avenue under one roof. Admission is $45 and includes FREE BOOZE, music, and dancing.

As reported by DNAinfo.com, the event is hosted by the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District, who are generously donating $20 of every ticket to the charity of the buyer’s choice. Worthy organizations vying your dollars include Brooklyn Pride, Old Stone House & Washington Park, and the President Street Community Garden.

Restaurants participating this year include such staples as Al Di La, Stone Park Cafe, and Blue Ribbon Brooklyn. But this thing’s got new joints, too! Pork Slope and Dizzy’s on Fifth will both be in attendance, and be sure to watch out for recent Bay Ridge transplant Leske’s Bakery, whose Sour Cherry was recently included in a list of New York Magazine’s best danishes.

Maybe it’s because we’re coming up on the end of Passover and I haven’t had grains in almost a week (what I wouldn’t give for a piece of toast right now...or a biscuit...or a cookie...), but I am feeling oh so ready to buy my ticket to this thing. It’s basically the same thing as Googa Mooga but indoors and sooner and easier and more charitable and better in every way. Ok, fine, it doesn’t have Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, but nothing’s perfect.

Fifth Avenue, once the outskirts of the neighborhood (y’know, in the 80’s and 90’s, before all of us got here), sure has come a long way! Have you seen our bar crawl down just the South Slope strip of the avenue? It was epic. And that was only 10 blocks! Gentrification is magical (or horrible, but for the purposes of this post: magical), and 5th Avenue is proof! So buy your tickets to A Taste of 5th at Grand Prospect Hall, and make all your dreams come true.