Aug. 29, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

With the onset of fall, attention in Sunnyside turns to the annual Taste of Sunnyside restaurant and bar crawl, which returns for a 15th year in October.

The hugely popular annual event will take place from 1-7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12, with participants set to begin their journey underneath the elevated 7 train at 46th St-Bliss St before setting out to try neighborhood restaurants on either side of Queens Boulevard.

The exact list of venues for the 2025 restaurant crawl has not yet been released by the Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District (BID). However, Dirk McCall de Palomá, the BID’s executive director, said he expects a similar number of participants as last year, when a record-breaking 65 local businesses took part in the crawl .

Last year’

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