Beer Battered Halloumi, Zucchini + Potato Pancake, Smashed Peas, Mint Yogurt, Acorn Garden Lemon Balm. (Courtesy Sean David)
Since opening in Vancouver in 2012, The Acorn has turn a end grill for vegetarians and omnivores who know beef isn’t required for a illusory meal. Using fresh, anniversary mixture and culinary creativity, The Acorn has become one of a standard-bearers for a uninformed character of “vegetable-forward” cooking that doesn’t try to spicy adult vegetarian food into some arrange of faux-meat facsimile.
“Really, it’s only about celebrating vegetables,” co-owner Shira Blustein told a Times a few months after opening. Then-chef Brian Skinner elaborated on a restaurant’s philosophy, that aims to move out what’s constrained in mixture traditionally relegated to a Forgotten Land of Sides: “We could have called a mushrooms scallops and a boiled cheese fish, though we didn’t. We don’t try to make people consider a certain way, like a lot of other vegetarian restaurants. We wanted a vegetarian to be incidental.”
Not distinct Dirt Candy, The Acorn seems like an ideal grill in that to charm your devoutly insatiable friends into revelation that a vegetarian cooking can be as tasty and gratifying as a insatiable one. This week you’ll have your possibility to make that case—without drifting to Vancouver—when The Acorn’s stream chefs, Robert Clarke and Brian Luptak, run a pop-up in a Lower East Side culinary eventuality space Exhibit C.
From Feb 3rd by a 7th, The Acorn will be offer a single-seating 5-course vegan tasting menu, with discretionary booze pairing curated by Kurtis Kolt, one of Vancouver’s tip sommeliers. (Kolt will be on palm any night to fact a wines he’s chosen.)
“The winter in British Columbia yields some smashing options in a approach of produce,” Clarke says. “We get to be artistic and consider outward a box with what we offer up.”
The 5 march cooking is $99, or $139 with booze pairing, and starts during 7 p.m. any night during 88 Eldridge Street. RSVP here.
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