Archie Weekly

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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.IMPORTANTE! 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

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 / 12Bookbook Club:Relish: My Life in the Kitchenby 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

Thursday / 13Eggplant Parm Dinner

We really love the Egpplant Parm.An evening of Sicilian, family-style food inspired by Nonna. Three courses cooked by Archestratus owner Paige Lipari. Big salad, nice slab of parm, something sweet to finish.

$30

Friday / 21Dinner with the Women ofWE ARE LA COCINA

Join us for dinner in celebration of a place with an excellent mission. La Cocina, a San Francisco based nonprofit, works to solve problems of equity in business ownership for women, immigrants, and people of color by cultivating low-income food entrepreneurs as they formalize and grow their businesses.La Cocina's Directors, Caleb Zigas and Leticia Landa, will be here to show off their book and to share how cities across the country can work towards more delicious, and more equitable, opportunity in the food industry. La Cocina alumni Nafy Flatley, Dayana Salazar, and Nite Yun will be joined by Chakriya Un, a cross-country spirit animal, and Yewande Komolafe, chef and recipe writer who also collaborated on the book, for a four-course meal inspired by the book itself.

$65, 7p

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Wednesday / 26

Cookbook Club:Extra Helping: Recipes for Building Community One Dish at a TimeWe will be joined by author Janet Reich Elsbach!

Cook through EXTRA HELPING: RECIPES FOR BUILDING A COMMUNITY ONE DISH AT A TIME by JANET REICH ELSBACH during the month of JUNE and drop by with your favorite dish on JUNE 26th—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. JANET REICH ELSBACH writes about how all the numerous things going on in the average life collide with making dinner on her blog A Raisin & a Porpoise. She has chased strange ingredients, healing nutrition, and good food all her life and is a regular contributor to the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers. Her writing has appeared on Food52, Modern Loss, Manifest Station, Role/Reboot, and Verily Magazine. 

FREE, 7p

Thursday / 27World Pride Fundraiser Dinner

The Dru Project’s World Pride fundraiser is a 5-course sit down infused meal cooked by NYC infusion chef Ellie Zitsman. She is the sous chef for the famous 99th Floor and is head of research and development (AKA flavor making) for Van Leeuwen’s Ice Cream.Ellie’s tasting menu will be "taste the rainbow" themed, featuring a variety of seasonal vegetables to tantalize the eye and the tongue! The meal will paired with beers from our friends at Industrial Arts Brewing.$125, 6:30p

Friday / 28TRIVIA NIGHT!A 90's Themed Trivia Nightwith Cocktail Expert Sam Slaughter

'90s baby! Join us for a '90s-themed trivia night with drinks and cocktail tips from Sam Slaughter, author of Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum? And other cocktails for '90s kids. Expect categories to be various, beer innumerable, arancine aplenty. Expect some decorations and we will hopefully deliver! There will be three rounds + a lightning round, but only one epic trophy. Win Drinks! Win Rice Balls! Win Cookies! Study up Renaissance person style!!!!!!!! Show up as a team, or swing by solo-- all are welcome! With Quizmaster Lucie Levine of Archive on Parade. All topics covered, not just food! 4 people max per team!2 drink minimum, 8pm

Sunday / 30Greenpoint Cat Club

Help us keep Greenpoint safe for cats.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.

FREE, 12p

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 ◆