COLORS RESTAURANT BRINGS THE FLAVOR OF THE ISLANDS TO MANHATTAN ISLAND
Live Music, Spice demo, Specials Kick Off Caribbean Festival. Thursday July 26th

For those who can’t leave the city in August, Colors restaurant will bring the beach off Broadway with their first annual Caribbean Culinary festival. Colors restaurant will kick off its month long Caribbean festival by bringing the tropics to downtown Manhattan on a trip to paradise for all five senses featuring Caribbean cuisine and drinks, music, decor, and culture.

Executive Chef Jean Emy Pierre, one of Color’s founding partners and former Windows on The World staff member, brings his native Island flavors to this “world brasserie” with specials such as: Caribbean style snapper, Caribbean jerked chicken, bananas sautéed in rum and served a la mode, and much more.

Eat, Drink, Learn, Spice At 6:00PM on Thursday, July, 26th, Chef Jean Emy Pierre and Southern Wines master Mixologist Alan Katz will host a demo/tasting of Caribbean spices in food and cocktails. Colors has also created signature cocktails inspired by the tropics such as: the Caribbean Royal, a refreshing drink made with green tea and rum, the Caribbean Buddha Thai, made with rum and tropical fruit juices, and Color’s version of a tropical Caribbean Julep, made with rum and berries. The cost for the demo, which includes two drinks plus Caribbean tapas, is $10. All proceeds will benefit City Harvest, the world's first food rescue organization.. Now serving New York City for 25 years, City Harvest currently helps to feed over 260,000 hungry men, women, and children per week.

Caribbean flavors will mix with Island sounds at the kick-off party on Thursday, July 26th. Aura Vasquez, Colors staffer and resident folk dance expert will teach foodies with two left feet some “easy-in-the-Islands” moves to help them get in the mood.

Colors, A “World Brasserie” The dining room compliments the menu elegantly, highlighting a Peters Projection map that runs throughout the stylishly designed art-deco inspired main dining room. The map, designed to eliminate skewed perceptions of countries’ sizes, pays homage to the message of equality the restaurant models itself after.

As a cooperative organization, Colors strives to set standards of excellence on all fronts: the food, the atmosphere, and their commitment to service and employee and community welfare. This dedication includes activities like purchasing ingredients from suppliers who practice sustainable agriculture and fair trade, to creating a system of internal operation based on respectful and reasonable treatment of all involved.

Colors is located at 417 Lafayette Street in Manhattan. The restaurant serves dinner from 5:30pm to 10:00pm Monday-Wednesday, 5:30pm-10:30pm Thursday-Saturday. Brunch and dinner served Sunday, noon-8:00pm.

For Reservations, call (212)777-8443 or visit www.colors-nyc.com