Purple Kale Kitchenworks Events
Events at Purple Kale Kitchenworks
Our studios are in the heart of wonderfully diverse Sunset Park, just south of Industry City, in a converted old box factory near the waterfront, with 16-inch wide old factory beams, original brick walls, 14- foot ceilings, and huge windows that flood the space with natural light and offer an industrial cityscape view. The Chef’s Studio is where cooking happens and where guests and chefs interact. The Parlor is where we host most of our performances, as well as pour cocktails, play music, and serve smaller, seated meals.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
One Twinkly Night
Twinkly nights – you know, the kind with long tables, good stories, great people, and ample platters of delicious food – are the best kind of nights.
Purple Kale Kitchenworks is teaming up again with Stories on Hudson for another night of storytelling and great food. Original stories, live music, drinks, dinner, and great company.
The theme this time is The Journey from Here to There: Stories of detours, discoveries, and delightful disasters.
Join us for just the stories and drinks or stay or the full evening, with a family-style dinner in the chef’s studio next door.
Saturday, May 17th
6:30 pm
@ Purple Kale Kitchenworks (Sunset Park, BKLYN)
PAST EVENTS
Doing Valentine’s Differently
Join Purple Kale Kitchenworks for a Valentine's Day that's all about community. We’ll have a packed room of friendly faces and abundant platters of food. There will be house wine, plus live music, and mingling.
No truffles or shitty champagne. No fascists.
Bring yourselves and your friends. We welcome all pronouns.
AT THE TABLE
Pork, mole, fillo dough bites
Toasts with mushroom mousse (v)
Braised duck radicchio, saba, currant-olive relish
Farro leek greens and lemon vinaigrette, onion jam
Gnocchi leek cream, cheesestock (v)
Brussels and Swiss Chard apple-cider-mustard dressing, walnuts (v)
Lemon Semifreddo Spice Cake, Amaro Syrup (v)
February 14th, 2025
A Tamalada!
featuring guest chef Angele Moyseos, Austin, Texas
Tamales are a traditional Mexican specialty. Every Mexican and Mexican-American home has its own recipe. In this class, we will have our own tamalada, making dozens of tamales together from scratch. At the end of class, you’ll take home a batch for your own table.
Angele has been making tamales since 1997, when she opened her first nationally-renowned tamale shop in her Texas hometown. In addition to the traditional pork, Angele’s fillings included non-traditional premium ingredients, such as wild mushroom and goat cheese, beef tenderloin, and smoked chicken. Our Purple Kale Kitchenworks tamalada will have pork and vegetarian options, alongside music and drinks.
December 2024
One Twinkly Night (of storytelling!)
Twinkly nights – you know, the kind with long tables, good stories, great people, and ample platters of delicious food – are the best kind of nights.
Stories on Hudson founder Meredith Phillips and Chef Ronna Welsh both love food and words and for this event, they pair up to bring you One Twinkly Night – an all-in-one pop-up event which brings storytelling and dinner together.
Arrive, grab a drink, chat, and find a seat in the story parlor – next to the Purple Kale Kitchenworks studio. Over the course of an hour, each of five storytellers will get up to share a story from their lives. The theme is WHOOPS! : stories of things that might have gone ... better. Prepare to laugh, cringe, and possibly cry.
Afterwards, the bar will stay open so that storytellers can mingle with their guests. At around 8 pm, those joining us for dinner will move on to a cozy, family-style meal next door.
October 2024
Fundraiser for the Independent Restaurant Coalition
Join Purple Kale Kitchenworks for a live, online cooking class to raise money for The Independent Restaurant Coalition, helping the restaurant industry survive and bounce back from the COVID pandemic.
May 2020
Everyday Scratch Sourdough Bread
Master baker Christina Ermilio (She Wolf Bakery) makes wondrous bread. In this class, she’ll teach you the technical skills and no-compromise strategies to make mind-blowing sourdough. You’ll learn how to feed and maintain a sourdough starter (from one of her very own strains!), and how to scale, mix, shape, proof, score, and bake a sourdough loaf at home, by hand. As important, you’ll learn strategies for bringing the bread-making process into your daily life. In addition to a thorough instructional booklet, you’ll take home your own sourdough starter, proofing basket, and ready-to-bake loaf.
Christina is one of a handful of select guest instructors at Purple Kale Kitchenworks. When she isn’t managing the bakery and its many market stalls or arranging events for Slow Food NYC, she can be spotted carting a full bag of fresh-baked bread on her back.
Launch Party for The Nimble Cook
The Nimble Cook Cookbook is out! Join us at the Purple Kale Kitchenworks studio for cocktails, nibbles, and music as we celebrate the launch of this long-awaited masterwork by chef Ronna Welsh.
Tastings include:
Beef carpaccio with all-herb salad
Salt-roasted little potatoes with seed mustard aioli
Balsamic-caramel figs with proscuitto
Confit tomato tartlets
Braised and pickled kale stems
Pickled Maine mussels on olive oil toasts
April, 2019
Eating Green: Discussion of Food and Sustainability
Join Purple Kale Kitchenworks), Brooklyn Grange Farm, and Rhodora Wine Bar for a panel discussion and Q&A about sustainable cooking practices, including recommendations for how to reduce waste in the kitchen.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The Purple Kale Pop Up (#3)
Dinner from the test kitchen, featuring recipes from the upcoming The Nimble Cook cookbook. Great food, drinks, friends, and music in an old box manufacturing building.
October 2018
The Purple Kale Pop Up (#2)
Dinner from the test kitchen, featuring recipes from the upcoming The Nimble Cook cookbook. Great food, drinks, friends, and music in an old box manufacturing building.
June 2018
Cookbook Swap!
Bring your cookbooks, a tote bag, and your sweet tooth! We’re raffle off classes and cookbooks to raise money for Room to Read, an international literacy program. Spice sugars and cookie kits for sale.
March 2018
The Purple Kale Pop Up (#1)
Dinner from the test kitchen, featuring recipes from the upcoming The Nimble Cook cookbook. Great food, drinks, friends, and music in an old box manufacturing building.
February 2018