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This Week: Rice Ball Class, Timballo Dinner ---> Mad Sicilian
This Week: Rice Ball Class, Timballo Dinner ---> Mad Sicilian
Archie Weekly
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THIS WEEK
TIMBALLO NIGHTTHURSDAY → SEP 21$18-ish, 7pmAn evening of Sicilian-style timballo, (a highly theatrical savory multi-layered pie). Expect full plates with beer & wine for sale. Reserve online, or drop by between 7-9p.
SATURDAY → SEP 23
$50, 11a to 1:30p
Learn every step of the process to making Sicily’s national treasure --- rice balls! Owner Paige Lipari divulges all the secrets to making creamy, tasty, perfectly crisp Arancine. Ticket includes a morning spritz.
On the menu:
beef ragu with peas + mozzarella, eggplant + toum (garlic sauce), and broccoli rabe + ricotta salata.
ROOF TO PLATE PIZZASUNDAY → SEP 24$15, 4-6pm
Join Archestratus & Eagle Street Rooftop Farm for the first Roof to Plate Pizza Sunday of the season! Come build your own pizza using superfresh, hyperlocal ingredients and edible flowers sourced from Eagle Street's Sunday market. Either here or while you're at the shop, purchase a copy of Annie Novak's indispensable book, The Rooftop Growing Guide ($23). All pies are personal and $15 each. We sell beer and wine.
BIRRE BALLZ HAPPY HOURSATURDAY/SUNDAY → SEP 23 + 24$3.50+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. But yes—buy a beer, get a ball!
VEGAN NIGHTTHURSDAY → SEP 28$18-ish, 7pmAn evening of Sicilian, family-style vegan food inspired by Nonna. Expect full plates with beer & wine for sale. Drop by between 7-9p.
CAT CLUBSATURDAY → SEP 30Free, 12pm
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.
TUESDAY → OCT 3
FREE, 7pm
Cook through COUS COUS and Other Good Food from Morocco, by Paula Wolfert during the month of SEPTEMBER and drop by with your favorite dish on OCT 3rd—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.
TRIVIA NIGHTWEDNESDAY → OCT 118pm
Our first TRIVIA NIGHT in August was a huge success! 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.
PIZZA NIGHTTHURSDAY → OCT 12$18, 7pmOnce a month Blue Plate gives way to PIZZA. Choose your own toppings/conduct your own symphony. Just show up!
Announcing the 1st BookBook Club:
TUESDAY → OCT 24
FREE, 7pm
We are very excited to announce a new Book Club series. Every six-ish weeks we will read a new memoir, collection of essays, novel, or anything else we find interesting that somehow, in a big or small way, relates to food. Just show up!Our first pick is Hunger, by Roxane Gay, a book we already love deeply and think is important.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”
--Roxane Gay, Hunger