Jimmys No. 43

It felt like we were running a marathon, but Cider Week NYC wrapped this past Sunday, and we were overwhelmed by the great array of cider makers (and cider lovers) who visited Jimmy’s No. 43. After a sold-out “Rev.” Nat West’s Cider Seminary on Friday, we hosted an all-day Cider Salon with many of the nation’s great cider makers (Aaron Burr, Farnum Hill, Eden Ice Cider, Embark and many more). We’ll be keeping a great list of ciders over the winter, and we’ll be featuring a weekly Cider & Cheese with Bobolink Dairy and Bakehouse (join us Friday afternoons, buy a cider – or beer, wine, cocktail – and you’ll get free cheese samples!).

And as we go in to the holidays, now’s a great time to reflect on all the positive reviews our new menu from Tito King’s Kitchen at Jimmy’s No. 43 has received. We celebrated our 10th Anniversary last month, and the new liquor menu along with delicious dishes such as our Chicken Wings Adobo has brought us to our second decade in style.

Of course, we love our tradition, too. Coming up in a few weeks – on Saturday, December 5th – will be the Sixth Annual Battle of the Belgians (get your tickets now), featuring great imports facing off against  Belgian-style Americans from Two Roads, Jolly Pumpkin, Folksbier, Allagash, LIC Beer Project and others. And tickets for January’s Eighth Annual Cassoulet Cook-Off are already on sale (click here for information on buying tickets or competing as a pro/am chef).

And of course, we’ll have our annual Christmas Day Beer Brunch plus several New Year’s Eve packages to choose from. And we still have plenty of room to host your party (of any size, be sure to email with inquiries).

Our bar is open for business during all the events, so be sure to drop by and see what’s happening at Jimmy’s No. 43!

We’re only mid-way through Cider Week, and the best is yet to come. Tonight, we’ll be welcoming Eleanor Leger and the team from Eden’s Ice Ciders, and tomorrow we’ll have reps from Samuel Smith chatting about English Ciders.

Then as we head into the weekend, we have two awesome and different ticketed events no cider lover will want to miss. First up, it’s Reverend Nat’s Cider Seminary on  Friday, November 13th where you can sample 20+ different ciders with “Rev.” Nat West leading a talk about west coast (and other) varieties of cider. For those who hunger for even more insider information, join in the amazing Cider Salon on Saturday, November 14th. The line-up for the day (ticket required – only $15 in advance or $20 at the door, which includes some samples plus all the programming below):

• 1PM – Jacob Lagoner with Embark Ciders will sample and talk about cask ciders, apple varieties and the evolution of cider making in his area of NY State
• 2PM – Cheese and Cider Sampling with Lauren McDowell (editor of CheeseRank) and Jahil Maplestone of Descendant Cider featuring Murray’s Cheese (and Descendant cask)
• 3PM – “Wild Apples” with cider makers Steve Selin and Andy Brennan (of Aaron Burr Ciders): A discussion of using foraged apples for cider recipes
• 4PM – “The Intersection of Beer and Cider” with Josh Bernstein and Eric West featuring West Coast Ciders from “Rev” Nat West of Reverend Nat’s Ciders
• 5PM – Apple Varieties with Loulou Spencer of Farnum Hill and Kevin Zielinski of EZ Orchards
• 6PM – Natural Wine and Cider Making with wine writer Alice Feiring and Andy Brennan

This event was listed as the #1 “Must Attend” event for the week by Cider Journal. Come in this week to celebrate cider and the real cider makers of NY State and beyond!

It’s almost here! The annual Cider Week NYC begins this Friday and we’ll have 10 full days of events beckoning cider lovers to come and hang out in our unofficial Cider Week “clubhouse.” Aside from meet-and-greets with great cider makers from all over the country, we’ll be featuring exclusive cask ciders that you won’t find anywhere else in the city, including casks from Blackduck, Descendant, Embark Craft Ciderworks and Eden Ice Ciders. Jimmy’s No. 43 is the place to be for exclusive cider tastings, classes and meet-and-greets starting this Friday, November 6^th through Sunday, November 15^th.

Already, several of our events are being hailed as “Must Attend” for the week, and if you’d like to participate to the fullest, we have a very small number off all-inclusive Super Cider Week NYC VIP Passes ($100 ticket available here).

Featured events include (unless otherwise noted, all events are pay-as-you-go):

Friday, November 6th – John Reynolds Sidra Cask Kick off Party for Cider Week NYC – We kick off Cider Week NYC with a very special cask from Blackduck Cidery. Come meet cidermaker John Reynolds and try his amazing Spanish-inspired still cider.

Saturday, November 7th – Two events: A Pig Butchering demo featuring J. Fox of Hudson & Charles (ticket required) and a Cider 101 Class with Foggy Ridge Cider Maker Diane Flynt. RSVP required

Tuesday, November 10th – Cider Cocktail Night featuring NY Apple Brandy and Meet the Author Darlene Hayes – We’ll have featured cider-based cocktails all night long plus all-NY-State Apple Brandy from Neversink Spirits.

Wednesday, November 11th – Cider Week NYC Cask Night and Meet the Cider Maker: Eden’s Eleanor Leger

Thursday, November 12th – English Cider Night with Sam Smith

Friday, November 13th – Sample 20+ different ciders (many from the west coat) during Reverend Nat’s Cider Seminary – Ticket required

It’s all leading up to the amazing Cider Salon on Saturday, November 14th. The line-up for the day (ticket required) includes:

• 1PM – Jacob Lagoner with Embark Cask Sampling will talk about cask ciders, apple varieties and the evolution of cider making in his area of NY State
• 2PM – Cheese and Cider Sampling with Lauren McDowell (editor of Cheese Rank) and Jahil Maplestone of Descendant Cider featuring Murray’s Cheese (and Descendant cask)
• 3PM – “Wild Apples” with cider makers Steve Selin and Andy Brennan: A discussion of using foraged apples for cider recipes
• 4PM – “The Intersection of Beer and Cider” with Josh Bernstein and Eric West featuring West Coast Ciders from “Rev” Nat West of Reverend Nat’s Ciders
• 5PM – Apple Varieties with Loulou Spencer of Farnum Hill and Kevin Zielinski of EZ Orchards
• 6PM – Natural Wine and Cider Making with wine writer Alice Feiring and Andy Brennan
  

Plus additional cheese and cider tastings on Fridays and a cider spin on our Lechon Pig brunch on Sundays (all our events are listed here).

Since the very first year of Cider Week NYC, Jimmy’s No. 43 is the place where you can expect to rub shoulders with the likes of cider makers from Aaron Burr, Eden Ice Ciders, Eve’s Cidery, Farnum Hill, and even west coast cider makers like Reverend Nat’s Cidery. We hope to see you living it up at the best place for cider – not just in NYC, but – in the country!

Unless otherwise noted, regular bar/restaurant service is available during the Cider Week NYC events. All programming/offerings subject to change/availability.

For traditionalists, today marks our “Tin” Anniversary. That’s right, Jimmy’s No. 43 is celebrating 10 years of a very long strange trip (hurricanes, explosions – four major shutdowns over the years). Mostly, we’re just super grateful to everyone who has supported us over the past decade, making Jimmy’s No. 43 one of the best gastropubs in the US (we always love it when travelers stop by because they heard about us back home!).

In a place like NYC “survival is the new success…” and we’ve more than survived: We’ve thrived thanks to the many patrons and special guests who frequent our establishment. So, tonight, rather than a crazy party, we’re just doing what we do best – and love to do – bringing a trio of killer beer makers from Oregon (The Commons Brewery, Gigantic Brewing Company, and Occidental Brewing Company) along with a couple book authors (Christian DeBenedetti and Andrea Slonecker, signing copies of their new book, Beer Bites) for a meet and greet that will go on until late this evening.

Of course, we’ll have plenty of food from Tito King’s Kitchen at Jimmy’s No. 43 (cool video about us shopping at the Union Square Greenmarket), including several “Lechon” whole roast pigs on tonight’s menu. If you can’t join us, you can show your 10th Anniversary love by buying a gift certificate (our backroom is also available for your holiday parties starting with Halloween in a couple weeks).

And you never know who might stop by to wish us happy anniversary, so keep your eyes peeled for celebrity guests.

Tin foil hat optional!

 

Jimmy’s No. 43 is gearing up for fall with recurring weekend themes and tastings of great cask beers and ciders, including a fall Cider Week preview featuring some of Vermont’s best cider makers at Eden, Shacksbury and Citizen Ciders. It’s all leading up to our favorite beer event of the year, the 6^th Annual Battle of the Belgians, taking place on Sunday, December 6th.

Plus, we’re celebrating a decade doing business in the East Village with a 10^th Anniversary party on Wednesday, October 14^th! We’ll be welcoming special guests (brewers, beer authors, plus local beer celebrities) to mingle with all who want to come out and toast us. In addition to a private celebration in the back room, in the main part of the restaurant we’ll have a pay-as-you-go bash with some of our favorite Oregon Brewers: The Commons Brewery, Gigantic Brewing Company, and Occidental Brewing Company.

Among our featured events for fall:

• Cask Saturdays. Every Saturday at 1 PM we’re hitting the pins and tapping a cask. Autumn is perfect weather for fest beers from Germany, along with domestic cask ales. On October 17^th, we’ll be adding on to Cask Saturday with “Cask 101” featuring Keg & Lantern Brewing Company. Meet the brewer and learn all about the nuanced art that is beer in a cask.
• “Lechon” Pig Sundays. On Sundays we serve up the whole hog direct from our new Tito King’s Kitchen at Jimmy’s No. 43. Pay by the plate and enjoy this remarkable dish along with sides and a specialty sauce. Available from 1 PM while supplies last.
• Private Parties. We recently underwent major renovations to the back room, which is the perfect place to throw a holiday party. If you haven’t checked it out recently, be sure to drop in and see the on-going Beer Portrait series by photographer Matt Coats in our “gallery”. Whether it’s dressing up for Halloween or putting together the perfect birthday bash (not to mention New Year’s Eve), we can offer everything from a la carte to fully catered affairs. E-mail to inquire.
• Vermont Cider Night. We’ll have a full week of cider programming when Cider Week NYC returns on November 6^th-15^th, but we’re getting a jump start on Saturday, October 24^th, with cider makers from Vermont and live Americana music on the Backroom stage.
• Battle of the Belgians. Tickets are already selling quickly for our sixth annual event featuring three hours of walk-around sampling of some of the world’s best bottled beers paired against American draught Belgian-style ales.

And of course we’ll have all the best craft beer, ciders, wine and cocktails, not to mention our great line-up of dishes from Tito King’s Kitchen at Jimmy’s No. 43

We hope to see you this fall!