••• Taste of Tribeca tickets are on sale. (The event is May 16.) As always, you save if you buy them early, so do it! Great fun, good cause; you know the drill. Also, the annual kickoff party is at Café Noir on April 27—buy tickets to that and you get entry to the festival, too.

••• I finally made it to Patrick Parrish, as Mondo Cane’s new incarnation on Lispenard is known. What a terrific space! It even has a catwalk. Do check it out, if you haven’t already. I have my eye on the photo (?) below….

Or wait till March 31, when this opens: “Jim Walrod’s collection of radical and rare lighting [exhibited] for the first time. This important group of 35+ lamps represents Walrod’s obsessive dedication to the genre, dominated by, but not limited to, Italian lamps from the ‘60s and ‘70s.” (Yes, they’re for sale.)

••• Chef Joel Javier, formerly of Telepan Local, is cooking pop-up dinners at Reade Street Pub & Kitchen on April 5 and 6. Expect “new American–Filipino cuisine.”

••• Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer has opened at 529 Broome (between Sullivan and Thompson). Looks intriguing.

••• From WTC Progress: “WTC Transportation Hub Oculus curtain wall installation is underway.”

••• A show of Peter Tunney’s “giant Polaroids” (or “giant giant Polaroids”?) opens at 83 Leonard in June.