Pop-up pig pickin’
Pork has a permanent place on Brookville Restaurant’s menu (and in chef/ owner Harrison Keevil’s heart), but on Friday, May 4, the second floor restaurant will temporarily become BVILLE-Q, featuring 100 percent locally-sourced barbeque pork to support the Tom Tom Founders Festival. Tickets are limited because a mere $45 gets you all-you-can-eat ’que and two drinks of beer or cider (additional drink tickets can be purchased at the bar). There’ll be “pig parts” passed throughout the night, but the main event—a good ol’ pig pickin’—starts at 8pm. Call 202-2791 to reserve your tickets and start stretching your stomach now.
A brand new box
Pei Chang, who cooks up ethereal Japanese cuisine nightly as the executive chef at Ten, has revamped the space and menu at another Asian place just around the corner. Chang and Nook owner Stu Rifkin bought The Box on Second Street and just reopened it as a noodle bar under the same name. Expect Vietnamese dishes like pho, ramen, banh mi, and pork belly buns served up super fresh, super fast, and super cheap (prices range from $3-8). Lunch service begins at 11am and dinner ends at 9pm with, in Chang’s words, “musical stylings from the golden age of hip-hop” providing the soundtrack. Get slurping!
They made it there
In January, Peter Chang dazzled the tastebuds of a sold-out crowd at the legendary James Beard House in New York with a seven-course meal paired with wines from Andy Reagan, winemaker at Jefferson Vineyards. On Friday, May 11 at 6pm, Chang and Reagan will recreate the entire experience at Peter Chang China Grill. The sensational spread costs $170 a head in New York, so at $75 and no travel costs beyond the gas to get to Barracks Road, the night’s a deal. Call 244-9818 for reservations.
