This week’s food pop-ups and dish drops in NYC will make you question everything you thought you knew about food. Picture biting into a doughnut and you're hit with a cheesy, creamy explosion in place of a sweet surprise. Or going to one of the world’s most prestigious restaurants and instead of placing your name on a waitlist for a table, you find a Michelin-quality bake sale outside. Imagine going to one of the city’s most exciting BBQ pop-ups and their menu is inspired by Jewish Deli classics just in time for the High Holidays. Or pulling up to your neighborhood bar for a drink and stumbling upon a whole pig roast. Maybe even going out to dinner in Brooklyn and finding a chef from Manhattan making your meal. This week’s Must-Eats has it all.

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Mac n’ Cheese Doughnut
West Village // 9.22-9.24

Another weekend, another TDP collab that feels like it came from a parallel universe. We usually call Leslie Polizotto ‘The Willy Wonka of Doughnuts’ but this week, she’s the Evelyn Wang from Everything Everywhere All at Once. The verse-jumping it must’ve took to come up with this deserves some kind of academy award. A collab with The World Trade Center’s sky-scraping restaurant, ONE Dine, this luxurious treat will have you feeling all the way up even at street level. Inspired by ONE Dine Executive Chef Reuel Vincent’s Orecchiette Pasta Mac n’ Cheese, the doughnut is filled with mac n’ cheese, brushed with butter and garnished with doughnut bread crumbs and chives. Find all the info in the 🧨 Drops category on the 8it app.

Bake It Nice
Flatiron // Saturdays

The Eleven Madison Park pastry team is taking molecular gastronomy to the streets. Let a pastry chef with a toque that would brush your apartment’s ceilings make your croissant this Saturday and bring home some cookies to show your friends even munchies can be chic. Our friends, Si & Lauren Willis (@consumingcouple) recommend the dulce de leche and chocolate cookie, the chocolate and praline croissant and the smoked carrot croissant. Make sure to get on line early. It runs from 11AM until they sell out, but lines reportedly run down the block well before they open. Find all the info in the 💥 Pop-ups category on the 8it app.

Tikkun BBQ
Astoria // 9.30

Tikkun BBQ is bringing the chutzpah to SingleCut Beersmiths tonight with brisket and next Saturday with a menu inspired by Jewish deli classics and we’re here to bring you the whole megillah. This is gonna be more than just a nosh, as they’re famous brisket will be on deck, this time with a charoset BBQ sauce. The sandwich is smoked turkey pastrami with a slaw inspired by 2nd Avenue Deli with Russian dressing, pork cracklings on toasted pumpernickel bread, and if you’re a real mensch, you’ll add chopped liver and a latke to that. The meat schvitz doesn’t end there, a glizzy with slaw and burnt end cholent is sure to schmooze your tastebuds. Find all the info in the 💥 Pop-ups category on the 8it app.

DILA
Crown Heights // 9.23 & 9.24

As if Cmartys jerk banh mis, tacos and special weekly menus weren’t enough, King Tai’s pop-up lineup keeps getting stronger and stronger to the point that it’s starting to look like the Real Madrid galacticos of roaming chefs. Someone call Fabrizio Romano and tell him to greenlight the “Here we go!” because they’re bringing in DILA by chef LJ Almendras formerly of Rolo’s and Monsieur Vo this weekend for a Fall-inspired Filipino Pork Roast. The pre-fixe, which calls for reservations, features crispy pork belly, chicken thigh, or mushroom roasted in lemongrass, scallions, and garlic with a trio of sauces, apple-beet salad, pickled bitter melon and a non-alcoholic aplos mango daiquiri. Find all the info in the💥 Pop-ups category on the 8it app.

Atla x Falansai
Bushwick // 9.26

ATLA will cross the East River to Brooklyn to bring additional Mexican flavor to Falansai this Tuesday, as chefs Marisol Corona and Eric Tran collab for a family style Dac Biet dinner. Atla dishes including seafood cocktail and flautas will feature in the pre-fixe, plus goat barbacoa noodles and more surprises. This dinner solves the common issue when you’re in the mood for smoky, spicy Mexican and colorful, texture-focused Vietnamese food simultaneously. Yin and yanging each other like Shaq and Kobe, this combination makes perfect sense. Find all the info in the💥 Pop-ups category on the 8it app.

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