15 Things to Eat, Drink & Do in January
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Jamie Street
Your new year’s resolutions: Shuck oysters with the experts at Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co., cook authentic Korean food, drink whiskey in a graveyard, join world-renowned chef Enrique Olvera at MOFAD for a taste of true Mexican hospitality, and more!
Monday, January 2
The Brooklyn Kitchen
Sharpen Your Knife Skills at The Brooklyn Kitchen
Address: The Brooklyn Kitchen, 100 Frost Street
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Admission: $85
Slice into the new year with this timeless, hands-on introduction to knife skills at The Brooklyn Kitchen on Monday, January 2. You’ll learn knife care and safety, practice technique, and get comfortable with some classic cuts. Light snacks will be served.
Thursday, January 5
Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co.
Hands-On Oyster Tasting & Shucking Class
Address: Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co., LIC Market, Queens
Time: 8-9:30pm
Admission: $45-$70
Learn to shuck oysters like a pro during this delicious and hands-on class at Greenpoint Fish & Co. in the LIC Market. You’ll also learn how oysters are grown, what affects an oyster’s flavor, and how to truly taste the nuances of oysters. Beverages will be provided by Bluepoint Brewing Co. and light snacks will be served. Oysters, oyster knives, gloves, and towels are available for purchase after class.
Friday, January 6-Sunday, January 8
Black Tap’s Rolling Stones Paint It Black Shake
Address: Black Tap, Multiple locations
Time: January 6-8
From January 6-8, Black Tap will celebrate Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones, an immersive, interactive music experience featuring 500 rare Rolling Stones items, with the Paint It Black Shake. The strawberry shake has a vanilla frosted pink and white and blue sixlet covered rim, with a Rolling Stones cookie, whipped cream, and sprinkles. Exhibitionism is now open.
Monday, January 9
The Brooklyn Kitchen
Korean 101
Address: The Brooklyn Kitchen, 100 Frost Street
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Admission: $95
Inherently seasonal, probiotic, low-carb and often gluten- and dairy-free, Korean cuisine is the perfect choice for a 21st-century dinner party, and comes together quickly for weeknight meals. In this class, you’ll take home the skills to pull together a Korean BBQ feast for friends and family. Menu: Quick-pickled cucumber kimchi; pajeon (Korean scallion pancake); doenjangjjigae (fermented bean soup); samgyupsal with sangchu-ssam (pork belly with lettuce wrap fixings).
Tuesday, January 10
Shake Shack
Shack Track & Field
Address: Shake Shack, 1 Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn
Time: 7-9:30pm
Admission: Free
Open to all ages and abilities, Shack Track & Field hosts free community runs on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. The DUMBO STF starts and finishes at the DUMBO Shack (1 Old Fulton Street). Meet at 7pm for a 3-5 mile run along the Brooklyn Bridge Park piers. Bonus: Get a free cup or cone of frozen custard when you rep a Shack Track & Field tee. Pick one up at the Shack or on our online shop for $25.
Irving Farm
Coffee Brewing Fundamentals
Address: The Loft @Irving Farm Coffee Roasters, 151 West 19th Street, 6th Floor
Time: 11-1pm
Admission: $75
Learn to brew the best coffee of your life during this two-hour “brewing intensive,” during which you’ll be using batch brewing equipment, preparing coffee with the Kalita Wave brewer, and evaluating brewed coffee’s flavor. The course will teach students to identify the four primary sensory aspects of brewed coffee, list and explain the six essential elements of brewing, and distinguish by taste the impact of acceptable versus improper brewing.
Farm.One
Farm Tour + Tasting With Complimentary Wine & Gift Box
Address: Institute of Culinary Education, 225 Liberty Street
Time: 6:30-7:30pm
Admission: $85
Tour Manhattan’s only indoor, hydroponic farm, where more than 50 varieties of rare herbs, edible flowers, and microgreens are grown. Sip sparkling wine while you taste new flavors from around the world, most of which are never available fresh in New York City. All visitors leave with a complimentary gift box containing rare herb samples for you to use in your own cooking.
Friday, January 13
MOFAD Lab
MOFAD @ Night
Address: MOFAD,
Time: 6-8pm
Admission: $20
Eat, drink, and mingle at MOFAD Lab on the first Friday the 13th of 2017. Join fellow food lovers and check out Chow: Making the Chinese American Restaurant at this open house. Snack and chat with MOFAD staffers about the exhibition and what else is in store. Doors open at 6 pm, last call at 7:45. Tickets include admission, light bites, and two drinks. Ages 21 and over.
Thursday, January 19
Mexican Hospitality With the Chefs of Cosme
Address: MOFAD,
Time: 6:30-8pm
Admission: $40
The culinary innovators from Cosme, in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, will visit the Museum of Food and Drink for a fun and relaxed evening of cooking and conversation. For chef Enrique Olvera, the executive chef of Cosme and Mexico City’s Pujol, his restaurants are an extension of his home, a place where guests should always feel welcome and happy. Join Cosme’s chef de cuisine Daniela Soto-Innes for an intimate cooking demonstration and a taste of Mexican hospitality. Followed by a reception featuring tastes from Cosme, plus wine and Brooklyn Brewery beer.
Saturday, January 21
NYC Scotch Walk
Address: Libation, 137 Ludlow Street
Time: 12-10pm
Admission: $55
Start at Libation on the LES for a daylong Scotch Walk of NYC, featuring premium tastings at six of the best bars in the city. Check-in must be completed by 3pm, and all participants must be 21 or older with valid ID.
Wednesday, January 25
A Greenmarket Dinner
Learn to Cook a Greenmarket Dinner
Address: COCO-MAT, 49 Mercer Street
Time: 6-8pm
Admission: $125
Learn how to choose and prepare in-season produce from the greenmarket with recipe developer Jill Fergus and healthy cooking expert Christine Wong during an intimate class with a maximum of 12 students per session. In addition to creating your own healthy, home-cooked meal, you’ll get food styling tips from the experts and leave with a guide on how to customize every dish.
Saturday, January 28
Best of Brooklyn
Best of Brooklyn Food and Beer Festival
Address: Industry City, 220 36th Street,
Time: 12-8pm
Admission: $29-$125
Clear your calendar and dust off that winter chill with the first-ever Best of Brooklyn Food and Beer Festival. Featuring Brooklyn’s best craft brews, tastings from top chefs, and music from DJs and live bands. Tickets start at $29 and include unlimited beer tastings and bites from local chefs.
King’s County Distillery
Dead Distillers Trolly Tour
Address: Green-Wood Historic Fund, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn
Time: 3:30-6pm
Admission: $40
Brooklyn’s Geen-Wood Cemetery is teaming up with Kings County Distillery to explore the cemetery’s permanent residents with whiskey connections, based on the newly published book, Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws who Made American Spirits. Afterward, the trolley will head to Kings County Distillery in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to explore how whiskey is made and enjoy a tasting of four locally produced whiskeys. Admission is limited to those 21 and older with valid IDs.
Covina
Covina Cocktail Class: The History of the Martini
Address: Covina, 127 East 27th Street
Time: 3-5pm
Admission: $95
Starting in January, Covina kicks off a monthly cocktail class with esteemed beverage director Ted Kilpatrick of Covina, o ya NYC, and Roof at Park South. For January, Kilpatrick will walk you through “The History of the Martini… and Why that Bright Green Apple Thing You are Holding Is Not One.”
Tuesday, January 31
Cold Days, Hot Sauce and Cheese at Murray’s Cheese
Address: Murray’s Cheese Shop, 245 Bleecker Street
Time: 6:30-8pm
Admission: $75
Feel the burn in the dead of winter this month with an entire class on pairing hot sauces and cheeses at Murray’s Cheese Shop on Bleecker.
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