CINCO DE MAYO FIESTA FUN
This year Cinco de Mayo falls on Tuesday, May 5th, but don’t let the weekday fool you – there will be plenty of opportunities to get in fiesta mode this year. What better way to commemorate all things Mexican than with great food & drinks at some of New York City’s best restaurants.
Cabrito (50 Carmine Street, NYC 212.929.5050 www.cabritonyc.com) gets in the fiesta spirit with not one, but two celebrations this year: Cinco de Mayo and the restaurant’s One Year Anniversary. The party will get things started with a special weekday offering of the restaurant’s $9 brunch drink special, which gets you your choice of three Bloody Mary’s, Sangrias, or Mimosas. Continuing throughout the day with special happy hour drink deals, including $3 Coronas, $5 margaritas and pints ($3) / pitchers ($12) Dos Equis and a special street-food menu. The main event will kick off at 9pm when the party gets going with Mexican hip hop, piñatas, a specialty cocktail called the Nuevo Paseo ($12) and business card raffles every hour to win four free shots of tequila!
At Firehouse (522 Columbus Ave, NYC 212.787.3473 www.firehousetavern.com) get into the Cinco de Mayo spirit with margaritas and nachos. For anyone who’s never had Firehouse’s nachos, be prepared for a mounded plate overflowing with chips, fresh salsa, beans, cheese, jalapenos and Mexican crema. To celebrate Cinco de Mayo this year, Firehouse is offering a special deal on these signature nachos – for $15 you get an order of nachos and two Firehouse margaritas. For the truly ambitious, add a shot of tequila for only $1 / shot. Olé!
Cinco de Mayo at Virgil’s (152 West 44th Street, NYC 212.921.9494 www.virgilsbbq.com) is a fiesta-packed affair with special dishes like Shrimp Relleno ($11.95) – Gulf shrimp stuffed with roasted jalapeno, jack, cheddar & cream cheeses, with panko breading, fried & served with guacamole, pico de gallo & sour cream; Enchiladas de Pollo ($15.95) – home made corn tortillas filled with ancho chicken, poblano peppers & jack cheese, served with refried beans, red rice, & house salad; and, of course margaritas! Virgil’s will be offering frozen margaritas in strawberry, watermelon, and mango – and for the truly festive drinkers out there, get a combination of all three and enjoy a Virgil’s Mexican Margarita Trifle, not only delicious to drink, but also colorful and fun!
CABRITO
50 Carmine Street
NYC
212.929.5050
FIESTA TIME AT CABRITO
Cinco de Mayo and Birthday Fun Rolled into One
Call it fate, call it luck, or call it good planning – this May 5th West Village hot spot Cabrito (50 Carmine Street, NYC 212.929.5050 www.cabritonyc.com) has two reasons to celebrate, and celebrate they will. With Cinco de Mayo falling on the exact day of the restaurant’s one year anniversary, these kids have one heck of a fiesta planned. Cabrito, whose outstanding Mexican street-food has earned raves and accolades over the past year, is thrilled to be marking their first birthday on the day when all of Mexican culture is traditionally celebrated. And with the lineup of activities and specials planned the restaurant is definitely going all out – making this the can’t-miss fiesta of the year.
Chef David Schuttenberg’s food stylings will keep guests satiated, while the ever-clever mixologists Allan Katz and Drew Zechman will work their magic behind the bar with house cocktails and specialty drinks to mark the occasion. The restaurant will be serving the regular lunch menu in the afternoon, but as a thank you to everyone for one year of patronage, the restaurant will be offering their $9 brunch drink special, which will get you a choice of three Bloody Mary’s, Sangrias, or Mimosas. For those not ready to get their drink on quite so early in the day, Cabrito staffers will be handing out non-alcoholic “bebidas†like tamarind mint and hibiscus coolers in official Cabrito goat-stamped cups all day outside the restaurant on Carmine Street.
At 4pm, the Cinco de Mayo Happy Hour kicks off with $5 margaritas, $3 Coronas, and pints ($3) / pitchers ($12) of Dos Equis. In addition to the restaurant’s regular happy hour menu, which includes frijoles puercos, jalapeno rellenos and guacamole & salsas, the restaurant will be offering a special street food menu featuring assorted tacos, flautas and tostadas. As an added bonus, the Cabrito staff will be handing out drink tokens redeemable at their evening fiesta starting at 9pm. People are invited to stay all day if they want to keep the party going, or come back later to participate in the nighttime festivities.
The full dinner menu will be available up until 9pm, at which time the restaurant will switch over to only street-food and will start offering a special cocktail for the evening called the Nuevo Paseo ($12). To get the party kicking into high gear, Cabrito’s special playlist for the fiesta will be a mix of Mexican hip hop and rock ‘n roll and guests are encouraged to get up and move. If the music isn’t enough to get people out of their seats, the lure of piñata bashing no doubt will. Two piñatas are going to be raised high throughout the night, each filled with prizes, toys, gift cards, and drink tokens and party-goers are invited to come up and take a whack or two. The restaurant will also be collecting business cards for hourly raffles – the lucky winners will receive four shots of tequila, guaranteed to make the piñata whacking more fun!
VIRGIL’S REAL BBQ
152 West 44th Street
NYC
212.921.9494
CINCO DE MAYO MENU
Shrimp Relleno
Gulf shrimp stuffed with roasted jalapeno, jack, cheddar & cream cheeses
with panko breading, fried & served with guacamole, pico de gallo & sour cream
$11.95
Guacamole, Chips & Salsa
Fresh guacamole with tomato salsa & corn tortilla chips
$8.95
Enchiladas de Pollo
Home made corn tortillas filled with ancho chicken, poblano peppers & jack cheese
served w/ refried beans, red rice, & house salad
$15.95
Flan de Abuela
$6.50
Frozen Margaritas
Strawberry
Watermelon
Mango
and a combination of the three to look like a Mexican Trifle, colorful and fun
