Weekend Fare - NYTimes.com Restaurants in the meatpacking district and Chelsea (including Fatty Crab, Tia Pol, Spice Market, Frankies 57 and Spasso) will converge on Gansevoort Plaza, the cobblestone area at Gansevoort Street and Ninth Avenue, to serve tastes of their special dishes on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to benefit the NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies. Tickets, available online, are $35 in advance and $45 the day of the event: tastesnyc.org. To taste a wide range of sake and sochu, head to the Brooklyn Kitchen, 100 Frost Street (Meeker Avenue), in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. The event includes some food from Ganso, Harris Salat's soon-to-open restaurant serving ramen and Japanese comfort food. Tickets are $25 online or by calling (718) 389-2982: brooklynkitchen.com. Millbrook Winery's Vineyard Express begins this weekend with an $85 per person package that includes train fare from Grand Central Terminal in addition to lunch and a wine tour with tasting at the Hudson Valley winery. Reservations, available online, are required: millbrookwine.com. Bobo, 181 West 10th Street (Seventh Avenue South), in the Village, debuts its June menu for its Tour de France dinner series. The chef Cedric Tovar will cook up dishes from the Languedoc-Roussillon region, where he grew up, for a $30 three-course prix fixe menu that includes dishes like escabeche of red mullet fillets and braised beef short ribs: bobonyc.com. Two new farmers" markets will open in Brooklyn on Sunday: At McGolrick Park, 130 Russell Street (Nassau Avenue), in Greenpoint, and Cooper Park, 114 Maspeth Avenue (Olive Street), in East Williamsburg. Both markets, open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays, will run through November. The chef David Burke (of David Burke Townhouse, David Burke Kitchen and Fishtail) teams up with Jim Koch, a founder of the Boston Beer Company, to host an outdoor barbecue on Sunday at Studio Square, 35-33 36th Street, in Long Island City, Queens. Two whole hogs will be roasted and paired with unlimited tastings of eight different Sam Adams beers and Jim Beam brands. V.I.P. tickets, $80 in advance or $100 at the door, allow guests in at 1 p.m. for a special tasting while regular tickets, $65 or $75, get you in at 2:30 p.m.: studiosquarenyc.com. Zarela Martinez, the matriarch of Mexican cuisine in New York, introduces a program on the food of Chihuahua, in Northern Mexico, on Sunday beginning at noon at Jimmy's No. 43, 43 East Seventh Street, in the East Village, with a tasting and demonstration on using a pig from nose to tail. The class is $65 and tickets are available online. Future classes take place June 6, 7 and 9: zarela.com. From chocolate-and-cheese pairings from Murray's, to short films on chocolate making, everything chocolate will be celebrated at a 92Y event this Sunday, starting at 7:30 p.m. at Buttenweiser Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue (East 92nd Street), on the Upper East Side. Chocolatiers and proprietors from the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, Guittard, Liddabit and more will offer tastes. Tickets are $35 online: 92y.org. Bon Appetit is sponsoring a Grub Crawl in New York this weekend, moving to New Orleans and Los Angeles next. The event, which hits pubs, restaurants and popular neighborhood joints, still has some tickets, $89, left for Sunday: bagrubcrawl.eventbrite.com. At La Promenade des Anglais, Alain Allegretti's Nice-inspired bistro, a jazz brunch series begins on Sunday along with a new menu that includes oysters, gazpacho and steak frites. The brunch series will take place every Sunday with a live jazz trio performing from noon to 3 p.m.: lapromenadenyc.com.