3rd Annual Mid-Autumn Night Market
Michelin-honored Cantonese restaurant Tiger Fork and its sister bar Hi-Lawn present their “3rd Annual Mid-Autumn Night Market” – a traditional Chinese festival celebration – from October 1-2. They will once again transform the 1000-person rooftop atop Union Market, plus the building’s second-level Dock5 event space, into a lively two-day Hong Kong night market, decked out with illuminated lanterns, food stalls from guest chefs, pop-up shops from local artisans, cultural performances, late-night DJs, baijiu and sake bars, mooncakes and more.
This is Tiger Fork & Hi-Lawn’s semiannual collaborative night market, which continually sell out and draw more than 4,000 attendees. Mid-Autumn is the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year, and is a reunion time for families, celebrated by gathering for dinners, worshiping the moon, and eating mooncakes. Tiger Fork & Hi-Lawn are bringing more than a dozen local restaurants and vendors to celebrate under the moon on one of DC’s largest rooftops.
Tiger Fork’s executive chef Simon Lam will cook savory street food-inspired fare and unique sweets alongside 14+ guest chefs/restaurants such as Love, Makoto, CUT DC, KAYU by Hiraya, Yume, CHIBOO, The Sister House, Yunnan by Potomac and Dan Dan Boy (with more to be announced soon) at food stands throughout the open-air rooftop and the covered Dock5 event space.
No mooncake festival is complete without its namesake sweets, and Toi Moi will serve symbolic, creative mooncakes.
Guests can peruse specialty gifts and wares (such as jewelry, kimonos, ceramics, artwork and more) from pop-up market stalls throughout the celebration.
Festival drinkers will enjoy a special Baijiu + Sake Bar, pouring China’s national spirit, plus an assortment of sake, and other liquor, themed cocktails, beer and wine.
There will also be cultural performances such as lion dancing and Kung Fu demos from Shaolin Hung Fut Kung Fu School taking place live on the lawn, while DJs EPX and Will Gralley will keep the spirited energy going both nights.
Entry to Tiger Fork’s 3rd Annual Mid-Autumn N
WHO: Tiger Fork & Chef Simon Lam Hi-Lawn & many more guest chefs and vendors Shaolin Hung Fut Kung Fu School
WHEN: Wednesday, October 1 & Thursday, October 2, 2025
5-11pm (food stalls close at 10pm, bar closes at 11pm)
WHERE: Hi-Lawn (on the rooftop of Union Market)
1309 5th St. NE
Washington, DC 20002