Popina

5th – 9th April

A beautiful, and very happy, marriage of Southern soul food and elevated Italian classics, Brooklyn’s Popina is the mash up you never knew you needed, until now.

Chef Chris McDade’s first food memory was cleaning pole beans on his grandma’s lap and his Southern heritage ripples through the inspired menu at the low-key Cobble Hill neighbourhood favourite. Pairing his Georgia upbringing with his love of classic Italian food, Popina was Chris’s singular vision from the moment he put on his chef whites. Since opening in 2017, the “quaint and adorable nook” has become famous for dishes such as a ‘Hot Chicken Milanese with Ranch Dressing’ and ‘Arancini with Honey and Butter’, made with Carolina Gold Rice.

Chris joins us in the kitchen for a standout menu of (Deep)-Southern Italian beauties like ‘Appalachian Grits and Squash Romana’, ‘Ham Hock and Collard Green Rotolo’ and ‘Hot Fried Rabbit’

Still not convinced? Did we mention that dessert is Chris’s ‘Bourbon Chocolate Pot de Crème’?