Event

A Night Among The Tsars

High culture.
Literary endeavors.
Glamorous, fur-coated beauties and beaus.
Mystery, even danger.

This is Pop-Up Shabbat: A Night Among the Tsars.

Tonight we evoke James Bond and his sinister Bulgarian henchmen, as well as the nuclear weapons and collapsing wall. As The Telegraph proposes, "the great paradox of the Cold War was that it was at once utterly terrifying and strangely glamorous." From Bulgaria to Brighton Beach, Rasputin to Reagan.

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Thanks to our collaborators:

- Mile End & Fleisher's, for the blazing fireplace and raw wood tables in their Red Hook meat production facility (our venue, yes!)

- Chef Boris Dubnov and baker Shannon Sarna for our feast of a menu.

- Tipsy Oxcart for the blazing brass band and raucous dancing.

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Our menu includes:

Flight of Blinichiki
blinis with salmon roe, lox, herring, chicken liver paté, veggies

Challah
potato dill with a horseradish vodka butter

Salad Olivier
potato, carrot, peas, pickled cucumber, hard-boiled quail egg, crayfish, grapefruit supreme and dill

Beef à la Borscht
beef cubes, beets, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots, parsley root, red bell peppers, horseradish, beef stock, red wine

Salmon Coulibiac
salmon, rice, onions, hard-boiled eggs, crème fraîche, inside a puff pastry dough

Horseradish Mashed Potatoes
each course has its appropriate garnish, but to bring it all together we'll add the irreplaceable and special potato puree!

Sirniki
farmer's cheese, egg, cream, rum-soaked raisins, orange zest, flour, berry sour cream