Author: anon

This week, we’ve had a whole pig delivered to the East Village Meat Market from Raven and Boar Farm (Columbia County). The East Village Meat Market is the last remaining of the traditional Eastern European butcheries. Butcher Julian Baczynsky
has ” old world” skills, a full licensed kitchen, and an old wood smoker. The market’s specialties include hams, kielbasa, sausages.

For a while we have wanted to bring some farm pork to the Market. (Last year we brought beef farmer Ken Jaffe to visit them.) So, we asked Andrew (the manager of the shop) if he would welcome the Raven and Boar pig. His eyes lit up! These days they only work with pre-cut wholesale meat!

Today, we will consult with Andrew as he cuts up the pig. We’ll decide which cuts to cure and smoke, roast, leave raw (pork chops), and maybe share with a chef friend (head!). Of course much of it will end up on the Jimmy’s No. 43 menu for our patrons to eat.

This could be the start of a special relationship-for a small fee, Andrew will store/cut/cure whole animals! It just might be the return to his traditional butcher roots that may save the butcher shop!

We’re looking forward to next weekend’s 5 Boro PicNYC and the opening of Governors Island for the summer, but we’re getting ready for all that great Sixpoint Craft Beer that will be available by leading into the weekend with a Sixpoint Beer Dinner (tickets available here). This prix fixe pairing will offer us the chance to dip into the stash in Sixpoint’s rare brew room (no, we don’t know if it really exists, but we’d like to imagine it does!) and bring in some hard-to-find brews. Available beers will include:

• Mad Scientist Cacao Husk Stout
• Enterprise Imperial Brown (American Brown Ale) – 9.5% ABV
• Mad Scientist Berliner Weisse
• Otis Oatmeal Stout
• Apollo Wheat
• Others TBA

Your ticket gets you three courses and three beers (wine option available) for a 7 p.m. communal sitting. Get your holiday weekend off to a roaring start with Sixpoint and Jimmy’s No. 43.

This week’s Thursday Tap™ is perfect for the warmer weather coming our way! It’s De la Senne – Zinnebir from Belgium, a  5.5% blonde ale that is available only from two Brussels breweries (the other brewery that has this style of blonde ale under a different label is Cantillon). It’s a hoppy, bright beer with good malt character and complex yeast notes.  The name comes from the Belgian slang word “zinneke” or “little bastards” which refers to wild mutts that used to be found in the poorer sections of Brussels but now refers to boys living in the poorer parts of town who have one Flemish-speaking and one French-speaking parent. Jimmy taps promptly at 5 p.m., and this rare brew is while supplies last. But we’ll serve you no matter what language your folks speak so long as they speak the language of craft beer!

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!