Discover the culinary delights of the Corona neighborhood in Queens on a guided food tour. Sample a variety of Latin American dishes, from tamales to pupusas, and enjoy a Mexican-style brunch.
Explore the culinary delights of Corona, Queens, on a guided food tour. Start your day in pedestrian-only Corona Plaza, the neighborhood’s bustling meeting place, and drop by a family-run Mexican bakery where you’ll join the weekend ritual of picking out sweet breakfast pastries and rolls from large trays set out for the customers.
From there, continue to an out-of-the-way spot where you’ll sit down with neighborhood families to enjoy a hearty Mexican-style brunch of pit-roasted goat.
Continue along Roosevelt Avenue, the area’s main artery and Queens’s own version of the Pan-American Highway, which on the weekends is lined with street vendors from throughout Latin America selling their edible wares. Along the way, stop by tamale vendors, Ecuadorian food trucks, and a side street evangelical church that on the weekends sells some of Queens’ finest pupusas, made with ingredients brought fresh from El Salvador.
To satisfy your sweet tooth, drop into an Argentinean corner bakery for some traditional treats and make a stop for a “cholado,” a hybrid frozen dessert and fruit salad also known as the Colombian Snow Cone.
End your day at a small bodega opened by a man from Veracruz, Mexico, who started off as a street vendor selling seafood dishes from his hometown, going inside for a celebratory (shrimp) cocktail.
