17/07/2024
In our Summer issue, visits A Taste of Worcester at Polar Park—have you been to a game yet this season?
“Monica Gonzalez, co-owner of 3 Kings Restaurant, knew nothing about baseball before this spring. Now, it might be her new favorite sport.
On a crisp, overcast mid-April Sunday, Gonzalez, her husband, Gil Colon, and step-daughter, Gilmary, sold thick empanadas, savory pinchos and melt-in-yourmouth chicharrón from the Taste of Worcester stand at Polar Park, home of the Triple-A Worcester Red Sox. Two years after starting their business out of a small food truck, and a few months after opening their brick-and-mortar shop, the family found its business on solid footing and on the precipice of a breakout summer.
“When you first open your restaurant you just sell to your people,” says Gonzalez, who moved to the United States from Puerto Rico six years ago. “People knowing more about us and trying our food is big for us.”
A Polar Park staple since the 2022 season (the park opened to fans in 2021 under some lingering Covid restrictions), the Taste of Worcester program provides local restaurants with access to the kitchen and seating of a mini-restaurant located just past the outfield fence on Summit Street—but still within Polar Park limits. Participants get the space for a homestand, up to six games. Some Taste of Worcester purveyors return for other events throughout the season or another spin through Taste of Worcester later in the season or the next.”
To read more, visit our sister magazine’s website: www.edibleboston.com.
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