Many small restaurants and food companies stand to lose thousands of dollars in revenue.
The third and final day of the Great GoogaMooga food and music festival was cancelled earlier this afternoon at at approximately 12:30, with ev...
Many small restaurants and food companies stand to lose thousands of dollars in revenue.
The third and final day of the Great GoogaMooga food and music festival was cancelled earlier this afternoon at at approximately 12:30, with event organizers citing general public safety concerns and potential damage to Prospect Park. While organizer Superfly Presents was quick to issue a statement pledging to refund all Sunday VIP ticket purchases in full, the announcement reportedly came after about a hundred or so of the enlisted food vendors had already set up for the day, and hundreds more festival-goers had converged on the site.
You may remember that last's year inaugural GoogaMooga was also something of a disaster, with infernal waits and other unpleasantries that sank all kinds of spirits. And while the food-heavy festival is reportedly expanding Chicago this August, it apparently still hasn't worked out a basic contingency plan for bad weather. Worst of all is that reports from Prospect Park yesterday indicated that a number of the logistical kinks had been worked out, which makes it sadder that a storm system was enough to come along and ruin the prospect of all kinds of barbecued lamb ribs, ice cream cones, pork belly tacos, and Oysters Bolognese.
Early reports indicate some participants will lose thousands of dollars in revenue because of this. EV Grieve reports that Northern Spy Food Co. owner Christopher Hille's damage is around $10,000. Allison Robicelli, another vendor, hears more of the same from other vendors. Many restaurants that created custom menus for the event don't even have storage space for the the mostly perishable food — which for the most part cannot be donated to food banks — while other businesses, like Luke's Lobster, are offering enticing discounts today in an effort to recoup the loss of being sent home from the cancelled event.
Below is the full list of restaurants, chefs, and shops who were scheduled to appear today. The official call is to go out and patronize these places asap.
For any vendors who were scheduled to sling cemitas or duck hash or whatever else today and are now slashing prices to reduce those two or three thousand portions you may have leftover, email us at newyork@grubstreet.com and we'll append it to the full list below.
Back Forty
Baked
BaconLand
Baohaus
Beecher’s Handmade Cheese
The Big Banana
Big Gay Ice Cream
Blue Marble Ice Cream
Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken
Brindle Room
Brooklyn Soda Works
Burger Joint
Calexico
Caracas Rockaway
Char No. 4
Colicchio & Sons
Craftbar
Crawfish Monica
Crif Dogs
DBGB Kitchen and Bar
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
Dirty Bird To Go
Do or Dine
Dough
DuMont Burger & Shakes
Eataly
Fatty Cue
Free Bread
Gwynnett St.
Hill Country Barbeque Market
James
Jeepney
Jeffrey's Grocery
Joe
Joe’s Pub
Joseph Leonard
Juice Press
Kasadela
La Newyorkina
Landhaus
Liddabit Sweets
Little Muenster
The Lobster Place
Luke’s Lobster: $2 off lobster rolls in all its New York stores today.
M. Wells
Maison Premiere
Max Brenner Chocolate Bar
Melt Bakery
Mile End
Mille-Feuille Bakery Cafe
Miss Lily's
Momofuku Milk Bar
Mother-in-Law Kimchi
Motorino
Nom Wah Tea Parlor
Northern Spy Food Co.*
Num Pang Sandwich Shop
Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors
People’s Pops
Pig & Khao
PizzaMoto
Pok Pok Phat Thai
Porchetta
Pork Slope
Prospect
Red Hook El Olomega Pupusas
Red Hook Lobster Pound*
Rippers
Roberta's Pizza
Robicelli’s
Rosemary's Enoteca and Trattoria
Salvation Taco
Saxelby Cheesemongers
Seersucker
SlantShack Jerky
South Brooklyn Pizza
Sun In Bloom
The Meat Hook
The Meatball Shop*
Third Rail Coffee
Tia Pol
Toro
Umami Burger
Vinegar Hill House
Willow Road
Wooly’s Ice
Earlier: Here’s What Everyone Will Be Serving at the Great GoogaMooga
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