Archie Weekly

OCTOBER

SOLD OUT Monday / 15

CASE VECCHIE 'RIUNIONE'with Fabriza Lanza,David Tanis and Maira Kalman

Come

join the empress of Sicily’s most famous cooking school, Fabrizia Lanza of Case Vecchie di Regaleali, for a rare “Riunione” with her former students and brilliant friends David Tanis and Maira Kalman.

Tickets include entry, wine, and an

arancina

. Books by Fabrizia, David, and Maira will all be for sale at Archestratus.$25, 7-9p 

Thursday / 18

COPENHAGEN FOODwith author Trine Hahnemann

Join us for an evening with the lovely Danish cookbook author Trine Hahnemann. Expect lots of mingling, a conversation with Trine, a Q + A, and signing. Get a free glass of Glögg with the purchase of her new cookbook Copenhagen Food: Stories, Traditions and Recipes. 

Free, 7p

JUST A FEW TICKETS LEFT...

Friday / 19

Her Tamarind Kitchen:A Pakistani Dinner with author Sumayya Usmani

Join Scotland-based author and chef Sumayya Usmani as she prepares us all a feast inspired by the flavors and classic dishes of her childhood in Pakistan. We continue to return to her cookbooks Mountain Berries & Desert Spice and Summers Under the Tamarind Tree for inspiration ourselves. 

  Menu 

Chitrali Mishi/ Northern Pakistani dish with black cumin spiced black-eyed peas topped with herbed creme fruitSindhi Karri/ Southern Pakistani warming turmeric stew with seasonal vegetables + chickpea flour dumplings, basmati rice + beetroot kachumber salad

Pakistani Lamb Biryani/ whole garam masala lamb curry layered with rice infused with saffron, mint + rosewater infused rice

Aubergine Borani/ spiced tomatoes, aubergine + garlic yogurt layered dish

  Mughlai Shahi Tukra/ saffron, cardamom + rose warm bread pudding 

*Please arrive promptly at 7p. Beer and wine will be for sale on premises.  Signed copies of Sumayya's books will be available for purchase at the shop.$50, 7p

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+

Sunday / 21

Vintage Baker Sweet + Boozy Happy Hour with author Jessie Sheehan

Join us for a Vintage Baker Sweet + Boozy Happy Hour with author Jessie Sheehan! Get a free glass of champagne and baked goods from the cookbook with the purchase of The Vintage Baker: More Than 50 Recipes from Butterscotch Pecan Curls to Sour Cream Jumbles. Expect lots of mingling, a conversation with Jessie moderated by her dear friend Nato Poliafito (of Baked fame), Q + A, and signing.

Free, 4p

Tuesday + Wednesday / 23 + 24

OMIOMI x Caroline Z Hurley

Drawing from the landscape inspired collections of local textile maker Caroline Z Hurley, Chelsea Turowsky, of San Francisco- based dream kitchen OMIOMI, will explore the progression and natural shifts from desert to sunset to sea through the culinary.

Experience the comestible building and movement over both evenings or just one. Delight in the prompt and party of the Joshua Tree Desert and the Yucatan Sunset.

Each evening meal consists of four exquisite courses. Nightly menus will be gluten-free and mainly plant-based and vegan, with minor inclusions of animal products. Beer, wine, and textiles will all be for sale on premises. We are looking forward to seeing you.

$85, 7-9:30p

Friday / 26

TAHINI RANCH

Southern Meets Lebanese

A Dinner Pop-Up Series to support LGBTQ organizations by Edouard Massih and Tommy Werner. Join the chefs in a collaborative series that brings together two distinct-but-complementary cuisines  for a cause. 

Ticket includes a complimentary cocktail, a three-course dinner, and donations to both LGBTQ organizations. Full beer and wine list sold on premises.  *NOTE! Arrive anytime between 7 and 9p.​$85

Sunday / 28Greenpoint 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 / 31Trivia Night

BOO! SPOOKY! CANDY! PUMPKIN! Alright!

Expect categories to be various, beer innumerable, arancine aplenty. Expect Halloween decorations and we will hopefully deliver! There will be three rounds + a lightning round, but only one epic trophy. Win Beer! Win Rice Balls! Win Cookies! 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!

WEAR A COSTUME AND POSSIBLY WIN SOMETHING EXCELLENT!

4 people max per team! 2 drink minimum!

NOVEMBER

Friday / 2SHABBAT DINNERwith Gefilteria and Polish Cultural Institute

Join Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern, co-founders of the Brooklyn-based food company, The Gefilteria, and co-authors of the celebrated Gefilte Manifesto cookbook, for their robust menu of Polish foods with Jewish origins (and vice versa). The duo draws Inspiration from their recent stint cooking and teaching in Poland and their years of research into eastern European Jewish cuisine. They will collaborate with guest Polish chef, Malika.Dinner will include four courses plus wine and a signature cocktail. Tax and gratuity are included in the ticket price. 

$60, 7p

Saturday / 3Table of Contents presents:Love and Dinner withGERTRUDE + ALICE

Table of Contents, a traveling literary supper club, is cooking up a delicious ode to their love for each other and their love of food. The menu is a culinary conversation between Stein's Modernist food poem, "Tender Buttons," and recipes from the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, first published in 1954. Beer and wine sold on premises.Please arrive promptly at 7p.$60, 7p

Tuesday / 20Cookbook Club Korean Home Cooking by Sohui Kim

Cook through KOREAN HOME COOKING during the months of OCTOBER/NOVEMBER  and drop by with your favorite dish on NOVEMBER 20th—all are welcome! It's a potluck party! It's 

mad

civilized! It

give

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

FREE, 7p

Tuesday / 27BookBook Club: On Persephone's Islandby Mary Taylor Simeti

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.