Archie Weekly

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MAY

SOLD OUTWednesday / 15Learn to Make Arepas from Scratch!with Mercedes Golip

Come join Caracas native Mercedes Golip at Archestratus for an Arepas workshop! For this class, everyone will get hands-on experience making traditional maize-based Arepas, as well as variations naturally tinted with superfoods. Afterward, we shall all sit down and eat our creations stuffed with cheese...

$50, 6p

Saturdays + SundaysBirreBallz 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+

Wednesday / 22Pok Pok Noodles with Andy Ricker!

Come join chef and author Andy Ricker and co-author JJ Goode for a noodle arancini happy hour, moderated conversation with The Splendid Table's Francis Lam, Q + A, and book signing in celebration of their new book: Pok Pok Noodles: Recipes from Thailand and Beyond... a definitive guide to the most delicious and time-honored noodle dishes of Thailand with recipes anyone can make at home.Tickets include a copy of Pok Pok Noodles + a cookbook inspired Thai/Sicilian arancini.

$40,

 7p

Thursday / 23Dinner at the Lost Luncheonette with Meredith Kurtzman

Join us for a four-course meal from Meredith's memory: a remembrance of New York's past, a feast of smelts, minestra, fazzoletti and something meringueish. Come to taste her total recall.

$50, 7:00p

   MENU  from MK:   To start, some fried smelts with lemon salad and spicy mayo.  Second course is minestra verde with nettle pesto and Zampieri Onion focaccia. Bleecker Street Luncheonette made a minestra which was an oft enjoyed soup that lived in the memories of many people who chattered away about the recipe as if it were the Rosetta stone of soup. Zampieri's was a bakery on Sullivan Street that closed in the mid-’70s. The owner was a crank who wasn’t very present, but I awoke at dawn to the smell of anise biscotti and, later in the day, would go downstairs for a fat slab of greasy onion focaccia.  Third course is a corn-based handkerchief pasta, a memory of Follonico, a trattoria that existed for maybe six years on a then dreary stretch of west 24th street, but had a wood-burning oven and served solid food. I worked there for six months and remember the fazzoletti, a fresh handkerchief pasta. I am making a corn-based dough, then tossing it with buttery mushrooms.  For dessert, I am hoping for Cali apricots, maybe some cherries to roast with vanilla, and serve with Zabaglione crema, and if I have time...do something meringueish with the extra whites from pasta making.

Sunday / 26Greenpoint 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

Wednesday / 29Cookbook Club:Ruffage by Abra Berens

Cook through RUFFAGE by ABRA BERENS during the month of MAY and drop by with your favorite dish on MAY 29th—all are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's mad civilized! It gives us a monthly dose of hope for the universe! Come by Archestratus to pick up the book for 20% off now.

FREE, 7p

Thursday / 30Family Style PIATTIDinner with author Stacy Adimando

Join us for the meal of our dreams: an endless antipasto, a many course family style Italian dinner of abundant platters, served a few at a time, some warm and others at room temperature. PIATTI author Stacy Adimando is here to show us how she likes to eat and entertain.

   MENU  to come...

JUNE

Thursday / 6Our Sicilian Vegan Dinner

An evening of Sicilian, family-style food inspired by Nonna. Three courses cooked by Archestratus owner Paige Lipari. Si, one of those courses is dessert.Due to high demand, there are two seatings for dinner. Please choose your arrival time for either 6:30 or 8:30p, and thank you thank you grazie for arriving promptly.

Beer and Wine for sale.No No No BYOB.

$30

Wednesday / 12Bookbook Club:Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

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 up the book for 20% off now.

FREE, 7p

My baking is too emotional, too volatile with distress to ever match Mom's cookie perfection. But my cookies contain the anxious deliciousness earned through an afternoon spent in turmoil, soothed by separating my troubles into warm crispy pieces. 

◆ From Relish by Lucy Knisley ◆