Archie Weekly

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MAY

Wednesday / 1BookBook Club:Much Depends on Dinnerby Margaret Visser

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

Thursday / 2A Gnocchi Class, then Dinnah!with Victoria Granof

Come spend a cozy Thursday evening with cookbook author and food stylist Victoria Granof for a gnocchi class and

dinnah

! Everyone will get hands-on experience making traditional potato gnocchi, swiss chard gnocchi, and a simple marinara sauce. Then, we eat it all and wash it down with a glass of wine.

$75, 6:30p

Friday / 3A Ruffage Dinner- Vegetarian Style -with author Abra Berens

Join us for a dinner that goes from raw to caramelized and everything in between—vegetarian style! On this night, we celebrate and are joined by ABRA BERENS—chef, author, farmer, Midwesterner—as she cooks us a four-course meal and shares a collection of recipes and techniques that result in new flavors, textures, and ways to enjoy all the vegetables you want to eat.RUFFAGE is the cookbook that promises to elevate vegetable-driven cooking. Berens wants readers to feel more empowered to shop, store, and cook vegetables every day in an approachable way.

$50, 7:00p

   MENU     beet arancini with ricotta salata and preserved lemon mayo  shaved spring vegetable salad with pickle liquid dressing and sunflower seeds  crispy polenta with braised eggplant + poached egg garnished with deep fried kale and parmesan  mini shamrock shakes

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+

Thursday / 9Family Dinnerwith Hetty McKinnon

Join us for three-courses of comfort food and community with cookbook author and publisher Hetty McKinnon.Family food isn’t fancy or complex. Its roots are humble, stemming from recipes passed on through generations, and food rituals born from daily cooking. Most importantly, great family recipes are ones that nurture our souls, our hearts and our tummies. Family food is comfort food.

$50, 7:00p

   MENU    Halloumi, kale and mint gozleme  Smashed peas, broccoli, farro, radish Supercharged kale 'panzanella' with polenta croutons Roasted cauliflower with vegan 'xo' sauce Herbed tahini pasta  Orange and rosemary olive oil cake

Wednesday / 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

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

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 / 30A Class with Stacey Adimondoauthor of PiattiMore details to come. :) 

TBDOur 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

As people grow up, they teach themselves to do what distinguishes adults from children: they will choke and cough until they have mastered the cigarette, or force themselves to down bitter beer until they are ready to join the group that actually likes it.

◆ Margaret Visser ◆