NYC Restaurants: Free Chicken(s)! + H Mart Food Hall

NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers clucked with glee over free chicken, but not the finger-licking kind.

A poultry escape capped an otherwise normal food news week in New York City.

And Patch's tiny, hungry newsroom was there to scratch out all the latest developments.

Here are this week's tasty morsels. Come back next week for more.

Dozens of chickens flew the coop across a Brooklyn street.

The birds sprang free after a cargo truck's door flung open on Old Fulton Street, leaving workers and an NYPD police officer to chase after the fowl, according to a report.

In less feathery and less chaotic news, the popular Asian grocery store chain H Mart opened a new food hall in Long Island City.

Starbucks workers in Downtown Brooklyn filed a petition to unionize.

And a Big Apple restaurant — Verōnika, nestled inside the Fotografiska photography museum — was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful Restaurants in America by People Magazine.

• Dozen Of Chickens Turn Up On BK Street After Falling Off Truck: Report
• Queens H Mart Food Hall Opens This Week
• Downtown Brooklyn Starbucks Employees File Petition To Unionize
• This Is NYC's 'Most Beautiful' Restaurant, New Ranking Says

The city's cavalcade of new restaurants opening didn't let up this past week.

Veselka, the famed Ukrainian diner, is expected to open its first Brooklyn location in Williamsburg next month, according to a report.

The planned Lorimer Street location will be one of three Veselka outposts across the city.

Two PopUp Bagels spots are expected to, naturally, pop up on opposite sides of Central Park.

The fresh-baked bagel shop opened a new spot on the Upper West Side and plans to soon do the same on the Upper East Side.

And a new espresso bar — CASASALVO — is coming to the Upper West Side.

• Ukrainian Diner Veselka To Open First BK Location Next Month: Report
• Popular Bagel Spot Set To 'PopUp' Soon On Upper East Side
• Hit Bagel Spot Officially Pops Up In Upper West Side

Finally, three eateries were closed by health inspectors this week.

• NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed May 3 - May 10