The pop-up game is popping off! Now more than ever chefs are throwing exciting, unpredictable events at new locations that you could miss if you blink. Thankfully, we gotchu! We’ve reached the heat of summer in NYC and while some are splitting time between the city and the Hamptons, we think its best you split time between food pop-up events and being parked in front of your air conditioner. The 8it Drop Digest is a taste of what you can discover in the Pop-Up & Drops category on the 8it app each week.

Below we have curated all the limited-dishin', hottest food collabs and dish drops across NYC for the next week so you never go hangry again. You're welcome 😎

Corima at Peoples
Peoples Wine

Where: Lower East Side
When: Wednesdays-Sundays 5:30-9:00PM

What’s the drop?
Chef Fidel Caballero the former sous chef of Michelin-starred Contra has brought his new project, Corima, to Peoples Wine in Essex Market without a specified end date. The perfectly-sized, Latin-American influenced menu truly has a dish for everyone.

Why should you go?
This is fine dining without all the formalities. Let’s call it fine eating. The moment you sit down, you’ll feel comfortable here. Take a chance and order something that peaks your curiosity like the Pork Neck with gigante beans, tatsoi, and chintextle bernaise. The meat is tender and marbled with slightly rendered fat, sliced thin and served boneless coated in a smoky bernaise. Corima is a great spot to take your date but this dish is the summer crush you won’t stop thinking about.

Gohan Fes
6th Avenue & West 19th-21st Street

Where: Chelsea
When: Saturday 7.16 10AM-6PM

What’s the drop?
A street market celebration of Japanese rice culture takes over a whole three blocks in Chelsea this Saturday. Vendors will be selling sushi, omusubi, bento boxes, and more.

Why you should go?
In addition to eating the delicious rice-based dishes that will be available, attendees will have an opportunity to have a hands-on interactive experience pounding mochi and making rice balls. Along with the special Gohan Fes vendors, there will be a Japan Fes area where vendors will have typical Japanese food like okonomiyaki and ramen.

Dine at Radio Park
Radio City Music Hall rooftop

Where: Midtown
When: Friday 7.15-Sunday 7.17 (reservation required)

What’s the drop?
Chef JJ Johnson from Just Eats on Cleo TV, the owner of FIELDTRIP in Harlem and Rockefeller Center, is bringing Caribbean Soul to Radio City Park. This three-course exclusive dining experience will feature JJ’s famous short ribs, empanadas, and coconut curry crispy snapper.

Why should you go?
Along with the inspiring menu that’s stacked with soul and flavor, the event space is beautiful. You deserve to eat a chopped cheese empanada on this rooftop park that inexplicably has trees growing out of it. What’s more New York chic than that?

Emmy Burger Dumplings
Mimi Cheng’s

Where: UWS and LES
When: Available all July

What’s the drop?
One of NYC’s most famous burgers from Emily in Brooklyn and the West Village has evolved into a dumpling like something out of a Pokémon cartoon. Juicy dry-aged beef bursts through the dumpling with every bite adorned in aged cheddar, crushed pretzels, and caramelized onions.

Why should you go?
Mimi Cheng’s is celebrating its 8th birthday this month in spectacular fashion. This collab for the ages is a rare occasion that will most definitely earn you some NYC food clout. As if you could possibly add any more flavor to these dreamy concoctions, the dumplings are served with Emmy’s top secret sauce which is something like a fry sauce with a little hint of cheese? We suggest you head to Mimi Cheng’s to find out.

Tito Papas Pop-Up
The Breakers

Where: Williamsburg
When: Wednesdays-Sundays (Check @_titopapas IG for hours)

What’s the drop?
This pop-up brings killer Filipino-influenced bar food to the dance floor at The Breakers. Tito Papas will feed you and your imagination with lechon kiwali poutine, Filipino chicken parm on spaghetti, steak tapa nachos, fried chicken sisig tacos, and one of The 7 Best New Burgers in NYC (via The Infatuation).

Why should you go?
Going to a dance bar can really spark one’s appetite. We often find ourselves sprinting to the nearest street cart pleading for them to take our money in exchange for food after a couple hours of dancing and a few beverages. At Tito Papas, you won’t even have to leave the bar to get your hands on some top-class food.

YOU SHOULDA 8it!

Not to rub it in, but here’s a couple dishes you missed out on this week. To stay in the know on all the hottest drops in real-time, check out 8it’s Pop-Ups & Drops category in the app.

Kit an’ Kin X Pelah Kitchen
Ostudio

This two-part African diasporic culinary series debuted last weekend with an Afro-Caribbean brunch that knocked our socks off. Pelah’s Ghanaian sugar bread French toast soaked in cardamon-infused custard and topped with strawberries was a heavenly combination of flavors and textures. Kit an’ Kin’s oxtail plantain hash was filling, heartwarming, and everything you could possibly need in a brunch dish. Don’t miss this duo’s next collaboration, an Afro-Caribbean Dinner at Ostudio on July 24.

Food & Arts Festival on Sixth
Avenue of the Americas & West 50th-54th Street

Four blocks of vendors were out on Avenue of the Americas on Wednesday from 11-3PM for a lunch time food fest. Talk about a power lunch! The festival was organized by Grand Bazaar NYC and featured The Boiis Co. mochi cookies amongst many vendors.

NEVER MISS A FOOD POP-UP, DROP, OR COLLAB AGAIN!

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