34 The Queens Courier • AUGUST 27, 2015 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com A sweet weekend at the LIC FLEA BY THE QUEENS COURIER STAFF [email protected] @QueensCourier Two sweet vendors came out on top this past weekend in Long Island City as they proved to be the favorites at the LIC Flea & Food Sweets Festival. Cookies Anonymous and Esta-Joy’s Kitchen were the two winners at the 2nd Annual LIC Flea Sweets Festival, which took place Aug. 22 and 23 at the popular market, located at Fifth Street and 46th Avenue. During the festival, visitors had the chance to vote for their favorite sweets vendor, and a guest judge selected a winner as well. Cookies Anonymous, which makes delicious cookies using ingredients from your mom’s kitchen and feature nostalgic and fun tastes, took home the win for Judge’s Favorite. Visitors to the festival selected Esta- Joy’s Kitchen, which specializes in old-fashioned fresh fruit buckle cakes, as the Fan Favorite. To continue the summer festivities, this weekend on Aug. 29 and 30 the Long Island City market will host the LIC Flea 2015 Table Tennis Open featuring grand prizes for winners. Players can sign up for hourly slots between 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on either Saturday or Sunday, but the final will be played on Sunday. Winners of Saturday’s round must also be available for the final at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. To sign up visit LIC Flea on Facebook or click here. Visitors enjoying the games or shopping around the market can also cool down at the LIC Flea Beer Garden — the only venue exclusively serving beers brewed in Queens from local breweries including Rockaway Brewery, Queens Brewery, Finback and SingleCut. With summer still in full swing, the LIC Flea also encourages people to make sure to check out the upcoming Astoria Flea & Food Night Market at Kaufman Astoria Studios next month during three consecutive Saturdays — Sept. 12, 19 and 26 from 6 to 11 p.m. Potential vendors can apply at www. licflea.com or call 718-224-5863. LIC Flea & Food runs every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through the end of October. For updates on the LIC Flea & Food market, follow on Facebook.com/LICFlea, Instagram. com/LICFlea and @LICFlea on Twitter. Photo courtesy of LIC Flea & Food Cookies Anonymous and Esta-Joy’s Kitchen were the two winners at the 2nd Annual LIC Flea Sweets Festival which took place Aug. 22 and 23. Make sure to satisfy your sweet tooth with these vendors at the LIC Flea & Food this weekend Seoul Pancake Seoul Pancake is the premier source for the best authentic Korean cuisine in New York. Send your palate on a journey with the scallion and kimchi pancakes, then wash it down with a cool, refreshing Sik Hye. All selections are homemade from family recipes and come either veganfriendly or with a selection of delectable meats and cheeses – all guaranteed to please. Sensational Sauces Sensational Sauces is an award-winning, locally sourced, handmade, small-batch sauce company. Inspired by never seeing the creativity in restaurants translated to store shelves, the company seeks to bring bold flavors and uniquely different tastes delivered through the freshest ingredients. With a focus on no chemicals, preservatives or stabilizers, they aim to upgrade the sauce world. Afíshonado Raised in Queens, the owners/chefs behind Afishonado, April and Leo, have been influenced by several ethnicities and cultures which can be seen in their interpretation of food. Both are trained chefs and lovers of food and flavors. Through their experiences working in restaurants and catering, and having been exposed to local ethnic food scenes, they collaborated to create Afíshonado, a concept created when a search for fish tacos was almost nil to none unless found in the Rockaways or at expensive Mexican-themed restaurants. The ideology is to offer an alternative to meat tacos by using seafood. Afíshonado offers a variety of seafood tacos, from beer-batter-fried and pan-seared cod and shrimp, clams, oysters and crab. They also offer a vegetarian option using tofu as an alternative. Each taco is paired with toppings such as fried onions, slaw and pico de gallo or corn and black bean salad. Sauces vary from mild tomatillo to spicy roasted tomato salsas or zesty creamy sauces using sour cream. Additionally, each taco comes with a side dish of fried plantain chips with a special garlic mojo sauce. You Are Here Studios www.YouAreHereStudios.com Instagram: @YouAreHereStudios The Astoria-based photographers of You Are Here Studios create fresh, vibrant, iconic and nostalgic photographs of Queens.
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