Whether you’re gift shopping or hungry for Korean hot dogs, this guide has you covered.
Each class , theUnion Square Holiday Marketbrings some 160 vendors and twinkle holiday cheer to a bustling Manhattan thoroughfare flank by sidewalk chess game hustlers anda year - round farmers marketplace . pilot the labyrinthine cubicle can flood out even the most seasoned New Yorkers and energetic tourists , so we pounded the pavement to identify the best topographic point to stop for snacks , crapulence , and intellectual nourishment gifts .
The market is heart-to-heart day by day from 11 am to 8 pm until December 24 . Most if not all of the food cubicle are toward the southwest side of the park , close to Park Avenue South between 14th and fifteenth street .
Here , our picks for the 10 best things to eat , drink , and buy at the Union Square Holiday Market .
Union Square Holiday Market|Photo by Jacob Williamson
The Boiis Co
From Sunnyside , Queens come this confectioner that specialize in mochi - engorge shortbread cookies . Situated near Union Square East , the stall changes its menu day by day , and sell ube- , matcha- , and salted raw sienna - stuffed cookies , as well as butter mochi , Basque mochi cheesecake , hot coffee , and Filipino - style raging chocolate .
Breezy Hill Orchard
If you ’re craving a classicapple cyder donutor need to warm up with a cup of hot Malus pumila cider , head to this south - face stall . An outpost of a Hudson Valley grove that grows 50 - odd varieties of apple , eight type of Pyrus communis , plus peaches , plums , and nectarines , Breezy Hill also occasionally sells fruit at the Union Square Greenmarket . The Holiday Market stand has doughnut to eat on the pip or to take forth , as well as oversized hot chocolate cow dung cookies and ginger nut .
Daniel Corpuz Chocolatier
After he fall back his restaurant job during the early days of the pandemic , Daniel Corpuz start selling handmade bonbon , which led to an visual aspect on season one of Netflix’sSchool of Chocolate . Last year , fan waited in long line to purchase his chocolates at another wintertime market in New York , where Corpuz sold out day by day — often within 20 minutes of opening . The lineage seem to have died down this class , but consider yourself forewarn .
Duck Season
situate in a prime corner stall near the south - facing side of the Holiday Market , this stall sells duck fatty fries , duck’s egg and bitch burgers , and a selection of poutines , including one with duck bacon , bracing Malva sylvestris curds , and duck gravy . It ’s the perfect endocarp block for something raging and substantial amid a long mean solar day of holiday shopping .
Empanada Papa
Jangneus
reclaimable dishrag are this Swedish design company ’s signature , but the chicly patterned platters , dishes , and other tableware at the Holiday Market make excellent gift for anyone who likes to nurse . The shop offers bundle deals on multiple towel and textiles , so you’re able to pick up something for a stylish friend and yourself at the same time .
Mama Lam’s
If you ’re stag for someone who roll in the hay to prepare or stocking your own larder , hold back by this stall toward the south side of the car park . Helmed by a female parent - daughter duo from Long Island City , Queens , Mama Lam ’s sells Malaysian curry pastes in hot , average , and modest , as well as hot sauce andchili oil . All jar and bottles are brilliantly box and useable in traditional and vegan variety .
Oh-K Dogs
Among the more popular food vendors at the marketplace , this outpost of a democratic Lower East Side shopfront sells Korean - style corn blackguard . Each beef or mozzarella frank is cake in Elmer Leopold Rice or potatoes and then late - electrocute until gilded brownness . There are even half - beef , half - tall mallow alternative for those with vacation - shopping - induced conclusion fatigue duty .
The Qi
Inspired by the afternoon tea culture she shared with her grandmother during her childhood in coastal China , Lisa Li createdthis purveyor of beautifully box , whole - flower tisane . Sourced from menage farms across Asia , The Qi ’s hand - picked oblation include Shangri - La rose , chrysanthemum , and low lotus teas . Look for the snug stall near the eastern side of Union Square .
Rubyzaar Baked
border to this retailer ’s collection of mediocre patronage scarves and handmade crafts is a slim cookie counter . It sells softball - sized cookies like Classic Rock , or salted chocolate lump , The Casbah , made with fresh mint and dark chocolate , and Hoi An , aVietnamese coffee - flavour cooky with sweet Milk River and gloomy burnt umber .
Union Square Holiday Market|Photo by Jacob Williamson
Rubyzaar Baked|Photo by Jacob Williamson
