Get Your Ticket and Start Dieting Now: A Choice Eats Update

Time to invest in a pair of pants with an elastic waistband. The good folks over at Choice Eats have informed us that 82 restaurants and eateries are currently participating in what's shaping up to be the best tasting event of all time.

Choice Eats will be held on March 29, 2011, at the 69th Armory on Lexington Avenue from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., with a special VIP hour beginning at 5:30. VIP tickets have already sold out, but general admission tickets for $45 are still available.

What tasty treats can you expect to see at the event? Why, only Korilla BBQ, Joyride, Wafels & Dinges, Nicky's Vietnamese Sandwich Shop, the Meatball Shop, O Lavrador, Northern Spy Food Co., the Good Batch, Del Posto, Fatty Crab, Spicy Bampa, Bark Hot Dogs, Taim, Kashkaval Cheese Market, Baohaus, Takashi, Kumquat Cupcakery, Babycakes, Luke's Lobster, Ofrenda, Satay Junction, Maima's Liberian Bistro & Bar, the Vanderbilt, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Porchetta, Resto, Alice's Tea Cup, Caracas Arepa Bar, Liddabit Sweets, An Choi, No. 7 Sub, Patacon Pisao, Ovelia Psistaria Bar, Dirt Candy, Kuma Inn, Umi Nom, Cascabel Taqueria, Kimchi Taco, Mooncake Foods, Marmaris Restaurant, Robicelli's, Mile End, Coney Island Taste, City Sandwich, Whimsy & Spice, Café Glechik, Strong Place, Egg, Sol-Mar Restaurant, Baked, Juliette, 5 & Diamond Restaurant and Bar, Kyochon, Buka NY, Dressler, the Blue Stove, Buffalo Boss, Bee Desserts, Fay Da Bakery, Court Street Grocers, the Sunburnt Calf, Kelvin Natural Slush Co., Nha Toi, Black Shack Burger, Mexico Lindo, the General Greene, Paulie Gee's, This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef, Brooklyn Brine, Smorgas Chef, the Fat Radish, Blue Marble Ice Cream, Curry-Ya, and AM-Thai Kitchen.

The good news? You've got a month left to diet before gorging yourselves silly.

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