Don’t want to shell out the extra bucks for Extra Mooga? Check out these summer food fests to satisfy your every craving.
*Pasta with Pizazz
The fifth annual Taste of the Upper West Side wraps up tonight with tastings from area restaurants and chefs. Among them are Daniel Boulud, who’s serving up mangalitsa pork agnolotti, and The Smith, which is whipping up toasted ricotta gnocchi. A portion of the proceeds benefit Citymeals-on-Wheels.
7 to 9 p.m. under the Grand Tent on Columbus Avenue, between 76th and 77th streets; 212-721-5048, newtasteuws.com; $125.
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*Cutting-Edge Cocktails
Sponsored by Bon Appetit, Grub Crawl Brooklyn is a three-day moveable feast exploring a different neighborhood daily — including Carroll Gardens, where Julie Reiner will lead a punch demonstration and tasting, and Williamsburg, where Allswell will pair cocktails and dishes made with foraged ingredients. Plus: a show with Brooklyn indie band Wakey!Wakey! at the Knitting Factory on June 2.
Various times June 1 to 3; bagrubcrawl.com. $175 for a day ticket, $575 for a weekend pass, $55 for the concert.
*Best Barbecue
Hungry New Yorkers will converge on Madison Square Park for Big Apple BBQ, a two-day blues-y block party with finger-licking ’cue of all kinds. Blues-rocker Alejandro Escovedo headlines.
11 a.m.-6 p.m. June 9 to 10 in Madison Square Park, Madison Avenue, between 23rd and 26th streets; 646-747-0584, bigapplebbq.org. Admission is free; dishes $8.