As 2015 draws to a close, we want to wish everyone in Jimmy’s Community peace and happy. Every year, we like to reflect on the one that has passed, and this year was extraordinarily eventful for us. It quite literally rocked our world when our little corner of the East Village suffered a massive explosion and fire that took out many of our neighbor’s homes and businesses. But we would rather focus on the good times and our many friends, including community/arts and non-profit partners from 2015:
- Slow Food NYC and Slow Food USA
- Grow NYC/Greenmarkets and the Regional Grains Projects
- Heritage Radio Network – the home of Beer Sessions Radio!
- Eating/Drinking/Laughing liberally
- Edible Schoolyard NYC
- NYC Brewers Guild
- NYC Homebrewers Guild
- Middle Collegiate Church/Pub Theology Group
- East Village Independant Merchants Association
- Fourth Arts Block/FAB NYC
- Neighborhood Preservation Center (St. Mark’s church)
- Lower East Side History Month
- St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church and the annual East 7th Street Festival
- Cooper Square Mutual Housing
- Solar One
- Farm on Kent/North Brooklyn Farms
- Anthology Film Archives
- Union Docs : Documentary Film Center
- The Jerome L Greene Space of WNYC and WQXR
- Taste NY
- Lower East Side Ecology Center
- Brooklyn Rescue Mission (Rev. Robert Jackson, Bed-Stuy)
- Slow Money NYC
- The Foodstand
- Food+Tech Connect
- Hearth Gods: Michael Yates Crowley and crew
- State Senator Brad Hoylman
- City Council Member Rosie Mendez
- Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer
And we turned 10 this year (HuffPo wrote up a nice piece on our anniversary)! In honor of such an auspicious occasion, we added spirits to our bar this year and did an overhaul of our kitchen, launching Tito King’s Kitchen at Jimmy’s No. 43, which was well received by both the public, our regulars and the NYC food press (scroll down for more press links).
UPDATE: The prix fixe ticketed dinner/open bar for New Year’s Eve is almost sold out. The bar will be open all night for regular customers, drinking and a light ala carte menu. Join us!
And there’s still more to come before we ring in the New Year! Seasonal events include:
- Annual Christmas-Day Lunch on Friday, December 25th: $25 gets you a plate with unlimited servings (while supplies last) of great fare from our menu, including our acclaimed Lechon whole roast pig
- Our Annual Boxing Day Coat Drive will benefit Mary House, a women and children’s shelter in the East Village: Donate a coat (new or gently used) and your first drink is on us all afternoon on Saturday, December 26th
- We’ll have an open bar package for Thursday, December 31st, as part of our New Year’s Eve Celebration: From 8 p.m. to midnight, enjoy three hours of unlimited drinks and access to semi-private room with separate bar with champagne toast at 12 a.m. (Get tickets here.)
- We are still accepting reservations for private parties through December 31st (e-mail foodkarma@gmail.com)
Please check out some of our most recent press re-caps:
- NY Times Review of Tito King’s Kitchen at Jimmy’s No. 43
- Saveur Review of Tito King’s Kitchen at Jimmy’s No. 43
We hope to see you during this holiday season and we wish you a safe and joyous end of 2015 and new year!