{"id":7748,"date":"2009-10-15T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=7748"},"modified":"2019-06-25T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:27:56","slug":"luscious-food-party-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/7748\/luscious-food-party-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Popular Park Slope Eatery Throws a &#8216;Thank You&#8217; Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14994 alignright lazyload\" title=\"cupcakes luscious food\" alt=\"cupcakes luscious food\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/images.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14994 alignright lazyload\" title=\"cupcakes luscious food\" alt=\"cupcakes luscious food\" src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/images.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/images.jpg 259w, https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/images-33x25.jpg 33w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/noscript>What:<\/strong> Luscious Food community party<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> 59 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Saturday, Oct. 17th, 6-9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why: <\/strong>Gourmet eatery Luscious Food in Park Slope is throwing a house party and we\u2019re all invited. The three-year-old neighborhood shop co-owned by three professional chefs will host a meet and greet that promises to introduce good food and neighbors (or newcomers) to each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a thank you party for all of our customers. Especially since money is tight for everyone,\u201d says owner Christine Zeni. \u201cGrowing up I knew everybody on my block in Queens. I knew my store owners. It\u2019s kind of nice to walk down the street and be able to wave hello.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The slow food eat-in or take out menu at Luscious offers a variety of vegetarian and vegan options as well as roasted meats, all homemade and prepared on premises. The current selection has grown even more tempting with the addition of a new pastry chef whose original twist on Twinkies, Nutter Butters, and Ho Hos make Luscious <em>the<\/em> destination for anyone going through a nasty breakup.<\/p>\n<p>All the food available at Saturday\u2019s mixer is on the house, and will be paired with wine courtesy of nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sipfinewine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIP<\/a>. Among the offerings, expect truffle chicken salad and smoked salmon apple horseradish on crostini, crab stuffed shrimp, herb goat cheese fritters, and jerk chicken straight off the grill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get there:<\/strong> <em>Take the 4 or 5 to Atlantic Avenue-Pacific St., head south on Pacific, then right on 5th Ave. Use the Hopstop link below for specific directions from your origin. (Luscious, 59 5th Avenue,<\/em> <em>718.398.5800, lusciousbrooklyn.com)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: Luscious Food community party Where: 59 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn When: Saturday, Oct. 17th, 6-9 p.m. Why: Gourmet eatery Luscious Food in Park Slope is throwing a house party and we\u2019re all invited. The three-year-old neighborhood shop co-owned by three professional chefs will host a meet and greet that promises to introduce good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,315,314,4,752],"tags":[293,157,226,156,269,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-7748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","7":"category-day-trips","8":"category-dining-nightlife","9":"category-events","10":"category-subway-2","11":"tag-budget-friendly","12":"tag-dessert","13":"tag-drink","14":"tag-park-slope","15":"tag-party","16":"tag-subway"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}