This Week: Trivia and Pizza!

This Week: Trivia and Pizza!

October 09, 2017

Archie Weekly

TUESDAY → NOV 14

FREE, 7pm

Cook through SWEET: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi during the month of OCTOBER and drop by with your favorite dish on NOV 14th—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.

THIS WEEK

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!

BIRRE BALLZ HAPPY HOURSAT/SUN → OCT 7 + OCT 8$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!

TIMBALLO NIGHTTHURSDAY → OCT 19$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 → OCT 21

$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.

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. 

VEGAN NIGHTTHURSDAY → OCT 26$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 → OCT 28Free, 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.

ROOF TO PLATE PIZZASUNDAY → OCT 29$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.

Come check out our lovely collection of rare books...