Must-Eat Food Pop-Ups & Drops in NYC 2.3-2.10
Does your eating schedule feel like Groundhog Day? Same thing over and over again every week? This article is the key to breaking that monotony. Each week, we highlight the city’s most exciting food pop-ups and dish drops; eating opportunities that duck out of sight quicker than Punxsutawney Phil. So while six more weeks of Winter is seemingly inevitable at this point, we’re bringing you five dining opportunities that were never on your radar until now.
As always, this article is just a small taste of the pop-ups and drops you can find in the 8it app. Hit the green button at the bottom of this article to explore the 8it app.
Hera x Solo Diner
Bushwick // 2.4 & 2.5
📸: @lemsoriano
Hera by Chef Jay Rodriguez, winner of 8it’s 2023 Tastiest Tasting Menu award, is starting a new series hosting guest chefs. The first edition of Hera & Friends will feature Solo Diner, a Filipino-American pop-up by three Oxalis alumni. The menu features a mushroom sisig taco, rice cake with blood sauce, tuna with grilled coconut, cabbage with bone marrow, a soup with pumpkin, cod and caramelized guava and more. Don’t even try to say this menu is anything like a dinner you had last week. We’re off to a strong start. Find all the info in the 💥 Pop-ups category on the 8it app.
Action Bronson x Fini
Williamsburg // 2.3 & 2.4
📸: @finipizza
Is it an ice cream sundae? A granola bowl? Action Bronson wouldn’t dare be so predictable. For his special with Fini this week, they’re dropping a fried sesame bagel struffoli with whipped ricotta, honey, lemon and sea salt. It’s like Action decided to throw a state fair in the middle of Winter on Bedford Avenue. Find all the info in the 🧨 Drops category on the 8it app.
Lloyd’s Carrot Cake x Sweet Chick
Sweet Chick locations // Thru March
📸: @nimbuskitchen
Lloyd’s Carrot Cake and Sweet Chick are collabing to give a side of veggies a whole new meaning. Through the end of March at all Sweet Chick locations, they’ll be slinging their signature fried chicken with carrot cake pancakes AND waffles. Carrot cake bits are mixed in to the pancake and waffle batters, then topped with cream cheese frosting, candied walnuts, orange zest and powdered sugar. The humble carrot has never been so indulgent. Find all the info in the 🧨 Drops category on the 8it app.
Ling Kee Lunar New Year BLT
Lower East Side // Thru 2.10
📸: @partybusbakeshop
One of the Lower East Side’s best kept secrets is a Malaysian jerky shop on Canal Street called Ling Kee that slings the most umami-packed snacks in the five boroughs. To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Partybus Bakeshop had the ingenius idea of throwing their Malaysian pork jerky on a BLT, a collab we hope will stick 🤞 But for now, you have until the 10th of February, so run to get your hands on this umami bomb before it’s exploded in everyone else’s mouth but yours. Find all the info in the 🧨 Drops category on the 8it app.
Chef’s Dinner Series - Lana Lagomarsini
Little Italy // 2.9
Chef Lana Lagomarsini will be throwing down for Chef’s Dinner Series highlighting black rising stars in the culinary world next Friday. The menu will feature a 4-course tasting menu of African-American heritage cuisine including an oxtail & plantain terrine, pimento cheese arancini, smoked oyster, stuffed rabbit loin, pecan pie pot de creme and more. Find all the info in the 💥 Pop-ups category on the 8it app.
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