Jimmy's No. 43

Locavore Burger Spread-Off Brings Together Local Ingredients, Craft Beer

astrid — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:45:05 +0000

It’s Burger Week in NYC, and we’re gearing up for our own meaty event: The Locavore Burger Spread-Off will take place on Friday, from 5-9 p.m., where you will get a chance to try our famous grass-fed beef burger—in mini-form—with local spreads:

Schoolhouse Kitchen Spreadables
Kensington Ketchup
My Friend’s Mustard
Mama Oh’s Kimchi
High River Sauces Tears of the Sun Hot Sauce

And what’s a burger without pickles? Our friends at Donovan’s Cellar have us covered in that regard, and we’ll have plenty of bread & butter pickles to complement the other toppings. And since it’s American Craft Beer Week, we’ll have selected tastings of beers to wash down the beef!

Get your all-inclusive ticket here, and see you Friday!

The Perfect Storm: American Craft Beer Week Meets Burger Week!

astrid — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:13:40 +0000

If you’re a foodie or a craft beer lover, the many event weeks in NYC can keep you on the go. This week, you can enjoy two such events when NY Burger Week and American Craft Beer Week coincide to bring you the very best of the city’s craft beer and beef (… and boar… and bison… and lamb…).

Jimmy’s No. 43 is the home for interesting and unusual beers, and as such we are proud to be participating in American Craft Beer Week (as we do every week!) with a broad range of outstanding American small craft breweries available both on tap and in the bottle. This week we have some of the top small American craft breweries featuring their most limited items:

Bottles

Leelanau Whaleback White Ale (Michigan), brewed by Jolly Pumpkin brewer Ron Jeffries at a neighboring brewery
AleSmith “Horny Devil” (San Diego “cult” brewery), a collectible large .750 bottle of this strong ale (11% ABV)
Stillwater Cellar Door (Maryland), from hip traveling DJ brewer Brian Strumke (he makes this label in Maryland when not brewing in Europe)

On draft

Allagash Blonde (Maine), a very limited, Belgian style pale ale that won gold at the Great American Beer Festival
Atwater Kolsch (Michigan), a German-style specialist
Founders (Michigan), Centennial IPA
Two Brothers (Illinois), Red Eye Coffee Porter
Bronx Brewery, Pale Ale

In addition, our regular $10 Tuesday Tastings this week features “New England Beers.” We’ll have bottles from Clown Shoes (Massachusetts), Maine Beer Co., Wandering Star Zingari Wit (also Massachusetts), and Alchemist Heady Topper (Vermont), among others.

As for beef, well, we always have our incredible locally-sourced, grass fed burgers on the menu, but this week we are having a special Locavore Burger Spread-Off. We’re offering a limited number of all-inclusive (and all you can eat) tickets for Friday’s gathering (5-9 p.m. with details/ticketing info available here).

We hope to see you as we celebrate American Craft Beer and Burger Weeks at Jimmy’s No. 43.

Brooklyn Food Conference Discusses Restaurants And Sustainability

astrid — Sun, 13 May 2012 12:19:25 +0000

Yesterday’s Brooklyn Food Conference was a rousing success, and Jimmy’s No. 43 was happy to be in attendance for a panel that discussed Sustainable Restaurants: Triple Bottom Line of Profitability, Sustainability and Social Justice. Jimmy Carbone joined Bill Telepan (Telepan Restaurant), iCi’s Catherine Saillard, Francine Stephens (Franny’s, Brooklyn Larder), and moderator Leaonard Lopate (WNYC Radio) to talk about how restauranteurs play a crucial role in community building, the food movement, and creating a truly sustainable business.

The Brooklyn Food Conference was sponsored by Brooklyn Food Coalition at Brooklyn Technical High School, with co-sponsors City Harvest, Edible (Brooklyn and Manhattan), Food & Water Watch, Food Bank for New York City, Park Slope Food Co-op, and Small Planet Institute.

You Mead Your Thursday Tap™!

astrid — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:52:39 +0000

This week’s Thursday Tap™ is an extremely rare pin (small cask) of mead. In fact, it’s Makana Meadery iQhilika Birds Eye Chili Mead matured in South African Petit Verdot barrels. According to the mead maker, “This mead is somewhat of a shock to the senses. African Birds Eye Chilli or Habanero Chilli lends an interesting wooded nose to the mead, which is entirely overwhelmed by the first sip, which clears the sinuses in a way similar to that of eating half a cup of Wassabi with a sushi roll. This mead is best served as an ice breaker at dinner parties, especially if the food will be hot. It is also quite amusing later on in a dinner party to circulate a bottle of Chilli mead when some of the guests become competitive.”

So come on down for something sweet and spicy! Jimmy just tapped this pin and it’s bound to go quickly!

Are You Ready To PicNYC?

astrid — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:41:45 +0000

We’re gearing up for our first big event of the summer on Governors Island: 5 Boro PicNYC, May 26th-27th. Check out our promotional video, below, then head on over to the website for information about the food, bands, beer and getting your tickets!

Dish Of The Week: Shrimp and Grits

astrid — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:53:43 +0000

One of the cooler things happening in the local foodshed movement is that NY State now offers the opportunity to buy grains locally. Jimmy’s No. 43 has been buying many of its grains (not to mention beans for our winter cassoulet dishes) from Cayuga Pure Organics in Brooktondale, NY.

Hence, our Dish of the Week: Shrimp and Grits, shrimp cooked in garlic with bacon, scallions and fresh red pepper and served alongside Cayuga’s organic polenta grind. The recipe is inspired by friend of Jimmy’s No. 43, “Hoppin’” John Taylor from Charleston. The southern influence is evident in the rich flavors this dish offers.

Be sure to stop in this week and pair our Dish of the Week with your favorite beer (we recommend an IPA, but any hop brew suits this dish well).

Beer Film Fest To Feature Best Of Brew Movies

astrid — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:53:11 +0000

What’s better than spending an afternoon drinking craft beer at Jimmy’s No. 43? Spending an afternoon drinking craft beer at Jimmy’s No. 43 while watching some great beer movies! Next weekend from 4-8 p.m. on May 12th, Seth Wright (Beer Nation) will be joining us to host the very first ever NYC Beer Film Festival, featuring clips from the finest beer related films and video podcasts being made today. In addition to webisodes from the Happy Hour Guys, Beer Nation, and The BrewHaHa, you can expect to sample film segments from American Beer, Beerituality, Beer Wars and a special preview of the much-anticipated Beer Hunter: The Movie (trailer below).

You can drop in at any time and take advantage of the opportunity to meet the hosts and producers and participate in lively discussion between each visual offering. Come support the filmmakers and vloggers at this FREE event, which will be a kick-off to July Good Beer Month’s bigger Beer Book, Blog and Video Festival on July 25th at South Street Seaport A schedule of showtimes will be posted here as details become available.

Tonight’s Thursday Tap™: Haand Bryggegriet’s Dobbel Dose

astrid — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:46:37 +0000

While Jimmy’s No. 43 is certainly home to “interesting and unusual beers,” lately it feels like we’ve been turning Norwegian. In addition to running several Nøgne Ø beers on tap the past week or so, tonight’s Thursday Tap™ is another Norse offering: Haand Bryggegriet’s Dobbel Dose. From their website: “Dobbel Dose or Dobbel Dram is a double IPA made with European style hops rather than US hops. This beer is also heavily dry hopped in the aging tank for the extra hop taste and aroma. This IPA also have a high focus on malt flavor combined with more esters from the yeast than is common with the US style IPA. The result is an IPA very different in flavor.”

Jimmy will be tapping this 9% ABV keg at 5 p.m. sharp. Available while supplies last!

Welcome Culinary Historians of New York!

astrid — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:15:56 +0000

Tonight Jimmy’s No. 43 is happy to host (in the back room) a talk/fundraiser for Culinary Historians of NY. CHNY is a non-profit organization of chefs, cooking teachers, historians, anthropologists, food writers, food editors, food stylists, researchers, librarians, caterers, collectors, and nutritionists. CHNY members explore the historic, esoteric, and entertaining byways of food.

At tonight’s gathering, CHNY will be holding a reception for nationally known food writer, Eugenia Bone, who will be discussing mycophilia, also known as mushrooms to the rest of us. Her book, Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms, is a collection of recipes and anecdotes involving the greatest edible fungi. More details on tonight’s event can be found here. Mushroom dishes will be served with proceeds going directly to CHNY (hint! beer goes superbly with mushrooms, so stop by the bar on your way in; porters and stouts tend to pair nicely).

Dish Of The Week: Hudson Valley Duck Farm Quackers

astrid — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:37:16 +0000

As we round out our April Sours weekend, we will be featuring an all-duck dinner (a limited number of tickets will be sold at the door with a reservation: call 212-982-3006) with duck sourced from Hudson Valley Duck Farm. Even if you can’t make the dinner tonight, you can enjoy this amazing duck this week as it will be our menu’s featured Dish of the Week! Hudson Valley Duck Farm (Ferndale, NY) offers two varieties of duck raised in a cage-free/antibiotic-free/hormone-free environment at the farm: the classic Moulard and a heritage breed called “Lola,” a gamier duck that is a leaner cross of Pekin and heirloom mallard.

Among the duck offerings you can find regularly at Jimmy’s No. 43 are:

Duck Prosciutto Breast
Smoked Duck Breast
Duck Salami
Duck Leg Confit
Duck Rillets
And various other roast duck dishes

For some of the best tasting quackers in the city, we hope you’ll join us this week for our featured Dish of the Week: Hudson Valley Duck Farm Duck!