Archie Weekly

AUGUST

Tuesday / 28Cookbook Club Japanese Farm Food by Nancy Singleton Hachisu

Cook through JAPANESE FARM FOOD during the months of JULY/AUGUST and drop by with your favorite dish on AUGUST 28th—all are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's

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us a monthly dose of hope for the universe! Come by Archestratus to pick it up for 20% off now.

FREE, 7p

SEPTEMBER

Saturday / 8A Happy Hour with Basque Country Author Marti Buckley

Join us for a Basque Country happy hour with author Marti Buckley! Get a free red wine-cola cocktail and Basque-inspired arancini with purchase of Basque Country: A Culinary Journey Through a Food Lover's Paradise. Conversation, Q + A, and signing. 4-6pm

Saturday + Sunday / 1-2BirreBallz BookBallz Happy Hour

Drinking amongst the books feels right. Thus, we are frying up a new arancine EVERY WEEKEND from opening until we run outta ballz. NY MAG THINKS THEY ARE THEE BEST. Free with the purchase of any drink or NEW Cookbook. But yes—buy a beer or book, get a ball!$4.50+

DATE CHANGE:Wednesday / 12Trivia Night

Expect categories to be various, beer innumerable, arancine aplenty. There will be three rounds + a lightning round, but only one epic trophy. Win Beer! Win Food! Study up renaissance man style!!!!!!!! Show up as a team, or swing by solo-- all are welcome! With Quizmaster Lucie Levine. All topics covered, not just food! 4 people max per team. Two drink minimum. 8pm

Thursday / 13TOMATONESS:A Dinner Celebrating the Bittersweet Close to the Season with Chef Meredith Kurtzman

The sun is shining. The tomato must be growing.As summer wanes, tomatoes are ripening, begging for a feast. The greatest gelato maker in NY, Chef Meredith Kurtzman, pays homage to her favorite fruit with Tomatoness, a tribute in four courses.

gazpacho shot, fried chickpeaspickled green tomato, fried polenta, mortadella ribbons, herby mayofregola with calamari and clams in roasted tomato broth, braised fennelsweet tomato crostata, crema 

$40, 7 to 9partwork above by Meredith

Events take a respite during the last two weeks of September. Come by for new books and old books and notebooks and writing implements and italian specialty foods and sicilian LUNCH and our weekend rice ball happy hour.

Sunday / TBAGreenpoint Cat Club

If you are passionate about the welfare of our neighborhood cats, join us for Greenpoint Cat Club, a new monthly meet-up group at Archestratus. Let's come together to try and understand the complex and emotional issues relating to outdoor cats, combat cat overpopulation, and keep local cats safe and healthy. Sign up to get Cat Club Newsletters here.FREE, 12p

OCTOBER

Tuesday / 2BookBook Club: You're on an Airplane by Parker Posey

We are so excited about Parker Posey's new memoir! It's full of recipes, hilarious personal stories, and beautiful handmade collages created by the author herself. Every six-ish weeks we read a new memoir, a collection of essays, novel, or anything else we find interesting that somehow, in a big or small way, relates to food. Then we discuss. Come by Archestratus to pick it up for 20% off now.

FREE, 7p

Go ahead, the macaroni is made.