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Salt City Market's Takeout Friday Begins at Westcott Community Center

By Erron Franklin SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News)  — Local restaurants  are participating in a unique opportunity to share cultural cuisine with Syracuse residents at the Salt City Market’s “Friday Take Out!”

Salt City Market, scheduled to open next year in the City’s Downtown, will feature a grocery store, food merchants, cafe and bar.

Friday Take Out! gives merchants hoping to be chosen as one of those with a stall in the new venture for Syracuse a chance to audition and give the community a taste of what could be coming to the market.

“Rather than open with eight or 10 people, we’d like for everyone to work out the kinks before hand,” Salt City Market Manager Adam Sudmann said. “We do that through a series of events and trainings and auditions in the year and a half while we undergo construction.”

Last Friday was the first of these pop-up-style events and Big in Burma was the first eatery to put their food on display.  The event was held at the Westcott Community Center at 6 p.m. By the time Myo, Hein, and Thando began packing brown bags with Burmese Cusine, a line had amassed at the community center.

“It’s a family run business for Burmese food. Around the Syracuse community you don’y find Burmese food even though there is an actual Burmese community,” Hein San of Big in Burma restaurant said. “What we brought here today was three special items.”

Less than an hour after the Friday Take Out! got underway, the Salt City Market wrote on their Facebook page:

“Hi everyone – it’s 6:55 and we are SOLD OUT. We’ll be back next Friday at 6:00 pm with GHANA. Lucky us!!!!”

Asempe Kitchen will be the next potential merchant to audition with traditional cuisine from African country of Ghana.

Friday Take Out will continue throughout the fall. And, if you missed on the Burmese cuisine, Big in Burma will be at it again at Cafe Sankofa Cooperative on Friday, July 26.

 

Erron: Its just before 6 p.m. at the Westcott Community Center….residents are lined up to try Burmese food at the Salt City Market’s Takeout Friday.

Local eateries are auditioning and providing a taste of what could be coming to the market. Organizers behind the venture get to see how they operate and what type of support they might need.

in the back the Chefs of Big in Burma are prepping their authentic cuisine which is becoming popular.

Hein San: It’s a family run business for Burmese food. Around the Syracuse community you don’t find Burmese food even though there is an actual Burmese community

Erron: Friday’s takeout event it just one of many leading up to the grand opening Salt City Market in 2020. Organizers want to stress the importance of community and culture and they’re doing that through food

Adam Sudmann: Lost on the north side and we happen to see families from Congo and Buton and Pakistan wandering through the snow grocery shopping. I thought was is this? This is amazing but I didn’t see a corresponding thing going on in the market place. You didn’t see restaurant showcasing this and so thought wow, there is a real gap here

Erron: Salt City Market will continue takeout Friday throughout the fall ahead of their grand opening in Downtown Syracuse in 2020.

It’s expected to feature a grocery store, food merchants, cafe and bar.

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