The Saturday Special: Corona’s Culinary Essentials

We’ll start our day in pedestrian-only Corona Plaza and drop by a family-run Mexican bakery where we’ll join the weekend ritual of picking out sweet breakfast pastries and rolls from large trays set out for the customers. From there, we’ll continue to an out-of-the-way spot where we’ll sit down with neighborhood families to enjoy a hearty Mexican-style brunch of pit-roasted goat.
Our food tour in Queens continues along Roosevelt Avenue. Along the way we’ll 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 our sweet tooth, we’ll drop into an Argentinean corner bakery for some traditional treats and make a stop for a “cholado,” the Colombian Snow Cone.

We’ll end our 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.