Mafia Food
Park Side, written in gold font, on a forest-green awning that wraps around an entire corner of a small tree-lined park a couple blocks from Flushing Meadows. The restaurant stands out of place in the overwhelmingly first-generation Latin American neighborhood, just as much as it stands out of time. Formally dressed valets wait on the curb, offering a hand to women stepping out of Porsche Cayennes and Cadillac Escalades. The light wood-lined walls and lantern lighting give the interior of the restaurant the feel of a beloved steakhouse in a midwestern town — somewhere hundred of miles away from places that cater to patrons who have vague, elitist creative-class jobs like ‘Product Designer’ and ‘Artistic Director’.
Fire Cider for the Community
In someone’s basement in Bed-Stuy, a group of danced-out celestial beings came up with the marvelous idea of making Fire Cider for the ‘community’ to ward off this season’s gay cold. It quickly shifted from Fire-Cider for the community to how we can market it and sell it for our own delectable profit.
Local Roots
Wen-Jay Yang has big goals. Emblazoned across pens, coffee cup sleeves, and stickers for her business Local Roots is the phrase “food can change the world.”
Cafe Forsaken
Cafe Forsaken shows us the ropes of running a mutual aid kitchen