Month: March 2016

We are very excited that our “Best Burger” is among the 10 burgers First We Feast thinks are the city’s most underrated. We’re only underrated until you try it! Made from a custom grind at Fleisher’s Craft Butchery, our grass-fed beef is a marvel to eat! While it pairs well with beer or a cocktail, our favorite libation with our burger is wine! And this week we’re featuring the Shinn Estate Winery from the North Fork of Long Island. We have it available by the glass, and we invite you to try it with our menu staple.

Speaking of Long Island, we have a couple great beers from there on draft this week: Barrier Brewing’s Money IPA and the St. James Wit bier (perfect for spring). And upcoming later this month is our annual April Sours, featuring 30 beers plus food in a three-hour walk-around tasting (get your tickets before we sell out!).

And this month we welcome The Chefs Collaborative to NYC (they’ll be joining us April 10-12 at nearby NYU). We’ll be hosting break-out sessions plus being the “unofficial clubhouse” for the chefs when they need a place to hang out and chill.

Maybe they’ll try the burger!

This week, we’re focusing on a unique group of brewers who are also making distilled spirits from their beers, and you can join us tomorrow (Wednesday, March 23rd) for “More than a Beer and a Shot” where you’ll sample five different beer-spirit pairings curated by George Flickinger of B. United Imports.  Expected pairings for the evening:

• Aventinus spirit and Aventinus beer – Edelster aged in whiskey barrels
• Schlenkerla spirit and beer (rauchbier)
• Uerige (alt bier) spirit and beer
• Reissdorf Kolsch spirit and beer
• Hitachino spirit and beer – distilled Hitachino White ale aged in white oak barrels

Be sure to get your ticket ($35) here.

And if you prefer beer with a pork chaser, be sure to drop by on Thursday (March 24th) for our “Pig and Belgians Last Supper,” a five-beer pairing dinner featuring a whole roast pig! (Tickets are available here.) Artisanal Imports and co-host Alex Forbes will curate the beers (subject to last minute change):

It’s a great double feature this week as we celebrate a new menu item: The Duck Bahn Mi. Recently profiled in Chopsticks & Marrow, our Bahn Mi takes everything you love from the Asian dish and makes it uniquely “Jimmy’s No. 43.” And this Thursday, we’ll be doing special pairings with some great Ciders of Spain. We’ll be pouring Avalon from Asturias, a region that was actually settled by the Celts. We’ll be having a wee l’il Santo Patricio celebration with pay-as-you-go sidra by the glass. These ciders pair amazingly well with the new duck dish.

And speaking of duck dishes, this Sunday is our annual Duck-Off benefiting Slow Food NYC. Get ready for Duck Confit, Peking Duck, Duck Tacos, Duck Ragu, Duck TagineIs and more! With duck sourced from Hudson Valley Duck Farm, chefs  will deliver a dozen delectable, duck dishes for eaters’ delight and  will serve up delicious duck charcuterie!

So be sure to drop by this week and try a new signature dish just in time for spring.

We were promised an early spring, and this week is looking fine. You’ll be feeling fine with one of our signature cocktails (and drink of the week), the Reverse Martini. We’re keeping it local (and low-cal) with a sizable pour of Uncouth Vermouth served with a splash of Queens Courage gin. It’s one of several cocktails we’re now known for since getting our liquor license last year.

And what should you pair with your Reverse Martini? We’re so glad you asked! How about our amazing Chicken Wings Adobo, braised in a unique recipe with meat that literally falls right off the bone. Saveur Magazine says, “These wings may be even easier to inhale than the Buffalo kind.” While we recommend savoring our wings over breathing them in, we do agree that they are “adobolicious!”

Of course, we always have an amazing line-up of beers on draft, but with the coming of spring is Saison Day on Saturday, March 12th. We’ll be celebrating this lighter beer with its unique and nuanced flavors, along with other farmhouse ales. Among the beers we plan to feature this week:

• LIC Beer Project’s SMASH (State Malt and State Hops) beer NY State Ardent Core Saison
• Pretty Things Kent Goldings Saison (hard to find, a rare gem!)
• Threes Paradigmatic Flexibility Saison
• Stillwater’s Of Love and Regret
• Allagash Saison
• Sloop Brewing’s Galaxy Farm (from the Hudson Valley)
• Others TBA

And, of course, we’re still featuring our “Best Burger” with red wine. Whatever your preferred beverage, we’ve got you covered this spring at Jimmy’s No. 43.