Astoria: Zenon Taverna offers a tasting of sixteen hot and cold meze for $17.95 per person and gives you fresh-cut apples and oranges at the end of the meal. [Foodista]
Dumbo: Sign-ups for the Summer-Fall CSA are this Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. [Dumbo NYC]
Midtown East: Gustavino's has been under extensive renovation, but reopens May 12. The palatial spot is still just available for private events, though. [Grub Street]
Nolita: West Village fave Jack's Stir Brew Coffee is opening an outpost in the restaurant Rice's front entrance, which used to be used for bar seating. [Grub Street]
Park Slope: Resident Eugene Mirman plans to include footage of "rude, entitled, self-righteous, and overdramatic" speakers at last night's community-board meeting on the fate of Union Hall in an upcoming documentary. He wants to show "democracy in action." [Gothamist]
Tribeca: The former Novo space on Hudson Street, near Spring, is under construction again. [Eater]

Astoria: Sparrow bar at 24-01 29th Street has outdoor seating. [Joey in Astoria] And Fresh Start health-food store finally opens its back patio — only to jack it up with distastefully painted bricks. [Joey in Astoria]
Dumbo: Paella’s the main event at Rice today from noon to 11 p.m. [Dumbo NYC]
Red Hook: A new blog, Save Soccer Tacos, tries to get the little guys as involved in saving Red Hook Park’s vendors as the food-world celebrities who’ve recently united. [The Gowanus Lounge]
Prospect Park: The park is one of the few in the city that actually encourage public barbecues, with seven designated areas and three permanent grills. [Gridskipper]
West Village: Freemans owners to pair with the Spotted Pig’s Ken Friedman to redo the former West space — that, or to open a chain restaurant banking on little people serving drinks in pig costumes. [Eater]