About this Event
LIMITED AVAILABILITY: Only 20 Buy 1, Get 1 Free tickets are available. Get them while they last!
BUY 1, GET 1 FREE: Each $100 ticket admits TWO guests. Bring a friend to the table.
Join Harlem's own sommelier and James Beard Award-winning author Cha McCoy for a special multi-course dinner and wine pairing with Philadelphia's award-winning Down North Pizza, celebrating the one-year anniversary of Cha's book, Wine Pairing for the People.
Down North Pizza comes up from Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion for the occasion. Led by Muhammad Abdul-Hadi (2024 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award), Down North is known for its Detroit-inspired, Philly-perfected square pies and its fair-chance employment model for formerly incarcerated people. Cha pairs wine with global cuisine from Africa and beyond, and cooking alongside the chefs are participants in Free Food's culinary training program: justice-impacted New Yorkers building real kitchen careers.
Two kitchens, two cities, one belief: everybody eats, everybody pours, everybody has a seat at the table. The table is set. Come take communion.
SCHEDULE
Monday, November 16
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM dinner
THE MISSION
Every seat supports Free Food at Refettorio Harlem's three-course community dinner program, currently serving 900 meals weekly across three programs, and our culinary training initiative for justice-impacted New Yorkers. Our kitchen recovers surplus ingredients from farmers, distributors, and food producers and turns them into three-course meals served free to the Harlem community: over 225,000 lbs of food recovered since 2023.
GOOD TO KNOW
No gluten-free pizza options; other gluten-free courses will be available.
Tickets are donations and are final and non-refundable.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Allergens and general questions: [email protected]
Location: Chef's Lab at Refettorio Harlem, 39 W 119th Street, New York, NY 10026 (inside Emanuel A.M.E. Church).
Event venue & nearby stays
Refettorio Harlem / Free Food Harlem / Unconditional Freedom, 39 West 119th Street, New York, United States
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