Crawfish, Ribs, Crabs, Local Brews and Great Views at 2014 Butcher Paper Dinner Series

The food is great, and the portions are large. The suds are local, and DJ Neal Sugarman of Daptone Records keeps the music exciting. In other words, the 2014 Butcher Paper Dinner Series is served. On one Sunday a month from May through October, celebrated local chefs, such as Jimmy Tu of Bunker in Ridgewood, present feasts on the Long Island City-based Brooklyn Grange’s rooftop farm. Borough breweries provide beer with wine from New York-based vineyards. (Queens can’t make it all!) Here’s the schedule.

• Crawfish boil (Sunday, May 25) with chef Mike Ciardi of Union Market. Big Alice Brewery samples Salt & Pepper Saison Farmhouse Ale, and Finger Lakes-based Heron Hill Winery uncorks Dry Riesling 2012 and a Pinot Blanc Reserve 2012.
• Fried chicken (Sunday, June 8) by chefs Erika Geldzahler, Sarah Buck and Carolyn Bane Ross-Leutwyler of Pies ‘n’ Thighs, followed by (what else?) their delicious pies. Queens Brewery taps Queens Lager.
• Vietnamese street food (Sunday, July 20) with Bunker’s Jimmy Tu. Queens Brewery again offers Queens Lager.
• Massive crab boil with oysters (Sunday, August 17), thanks to chef Will Horowitz of Ducks Eatery. Yet another borough brewery, Finback, provides the suds, and Sawmill Creek Vineyards from the Finger Lakes pours a Riesling and a Sauvingon Blanc.
• A table-length sandwich, piled with delicious meats and veggie chips from Brooklyn Grange, (Sunday, September 28) with chefs Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis of M. Wells. Rockaway Brewing Company serves beer and North Shore vineyard Bedell Cellars selects the wines.
• Rib-a-thon (Sunday, October 5) with chef Dan Delaney of Delaney Barbeque and BrisketTown. Queens Brewery brings back the Queens Lager with wine from Fox Run Vineyards in the Finger Lakes.

Details: All dinners are from 3 pm to 6:30 pm on the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm, which is located on Northern Boulevard in the vicinity of 38th Street in Long Island City. Spots are limited to 65 people, tickets priced at $80. Edible Queens, the borough’s premier food magazine, is the other sponsor.

Photos: Edible Queens