Jimmys No. 43

Welcome back fall! We happen to love red wine when the days grow shorter and the temperatures give us energy anew! What better time to celebrate the grape than October and what better place than Jimmy’s No. 43 where we like to pair our Cabernets, Merlots and Table Reds with our Best Burger with a custom grind from Fleisher’s Craft Butchery.

We are offering special pours by the glass every Thursday this month starting tonight. So drop on by for red wine and burgers (or, you know, just the wine!).  And if you prefer beer with your grass-fed beef, well we have a couple of autumn favorites on draught right now, including Crooked Stave’s Colorado Wild Sage, an unfiltered Zwicklbier from Catskill Brewery and two hoppy beers from Industrial Arts.

It may not feel like autumn just yet, but we’re super excited with the new breweries that are opening up in the region. We always have a great selection of rotating taps, and this is the season for fest beers, ciders on draft (be sure to check out our programming for next month’s Cider Week NYC) and new offerings from some recent launches:

• Our new favorite cider comes from Blackduck Cidery (we currently have their Dry Hopped cider on draft)
• Black Hog Brewing from Connecticut (you gotta try their Milk Stout on nitro! perfect for fall)
• Hofstetten Hochzeitsbier von 1810 (have a little Oktoberfest with this paired to something from our fall farmers market menu – pictured at right)
• Two brews from Jeff O’Neil’s new venture Industrial Arts
• We always offer something from Barrier Brewing
• Plus city beers from Other Half, LIC Beer Project and Interboro, among others

Sit at the bar or grab a table and enjoy the bounty of this fall season!

We’re very excited about this weekend’s upcoming first annual Taste of East Village, a culinary festival on East 7th Street, featuring dishes from more than 20 of the East Village’s best restaurants and eateries, and live entertainment from local musicians and cultural groups.

We’ve partnered with Porcena, Veselka, Luke’s Lobster and the Cooper Square Committee to present an event that will feature live entertainment alongside great eats and cool drinks! We’ll be open all day Saturday, September 17th, with libations and some special programming, including a poetry reading from 3-5PM featuring Seven Poets along with whiskey and mezcal tastings. Your used ticket gets you into the spirits sampling for free!

We hope you’ll join us on Saturday to celebrate our amazing East Village and Lower East Side community at the first annual Taste of East Village!

Fall is just around the corner, meaning seasonal beers are coming your way. There are a couple breweries we are featuring on tap this week, and we’re loving what they’re doing! First up is the newly opened Interboro Spirits & Ales, the first brewery/distillery to open in NYC. Right now we have their Bushburg on draft, a perfect Pilsner for these final hazy lazy days of summer. We’re also enjoying the newest beers by Jeff O’Neil (f/of Peekskill Brewing), whose Industrial Arts brews we’ve be rotating through.

As for food, our fall seasonal menu features farm-to-table and butcher’s cuts, including our amazing “Best Burger” with a custom grind from Fleisher’s Craft Butchery. You can enjoy more in burgers starting next month, when George Motz has a weekly burger pop-up every Thursday night.

And for our vegetarian friends, we’ll feature a separate pop-up on Sundays through September as Chef Zad Farahvash of Cafe Zarathustra brings some Persian flair to our kitchen.

Speaking of cafes… Our Cafe Society Backroom is open for your fall and holiday bookings! Be sure to email us with your party needs, as slots are already booking up into the new year.

The wait is over! Our good friend, Jeff O’Neil (former head brewer at Peekskill) has been working for the past year to open his own brewery in Rockland County (Hudson Valley)… and the first brew is available this weekend at Jimmy’s No. 43! We just received “The Tools of the Trade,” a pale ale just released by Jeff’s new brewery, Industrial Arts.

We expect to be carrying Jeff’s beers regularly, but you can get a sneak peek (taste?) this weekend of some hoppy goodness from Industrial Arts Brewing!