Top Chef Hits Astoria

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Last night's premiere of Bravo's reality food show, Top Chef featured our very own neighborhood. It was exciting to see contestants of the show's 5th season get off at the Astoria Blvd subway stop and head to our very own Greek supermarket, Titan. Their mission was to prepare an ethnic meal themed to a neighborhood that was chosen for them. Both New York natives, Jamie and Richard competed head-to-head in making a typical Greek meal. Watch the action here!

Also, it looks as if the contestants are living in an upscale high-rise building in LIC. I'm not certain about that but it looked that way from the view out their window. I'm glad to see that people are finally catching on--Queens is cool!

NY Mag: Michael Psilakis Buys Greek in Astoria

Check out the short video from NY Magazine featuring Michael Psilakis giving Josh Ozersky of Grub Street a tour of some of the Greek culinary highlights in Astoria. I admit to loving both Titan Foods and Artopolis, and it reminds me that I need to stop by soon.

They also visit the meat market next to Artopolis, Plaza Meat Market, where they have whole lambs and organ meats, among other things. Offal is not my thing, but it's cool that those that love it have a source.