Mafia Food
Dante Pilkington Dante Pilkington

Mafia Food

Park Side, written in gold font, on a forest-green awning that wraps around an entire corner of a small tree-lined park a couple blocks from Flushing Meadows. The restaurant stands out of place in the overwhelmingly first-generation Latin American neighborhood, just as much as it stands out of time. Formally dressed valets wait on the curb, offering a hand to women stepping out of Porsche Cayennes and Cadillac Escalades. The light wood-lined walls and lantern lighting give the interior of the restaurant the feel of a beloved steakhouse in a midwestern town — somewhere hundred of miles away from places that cater to patrons who have vague, elitist creative-class jobs like ‘Product Designer’ and ‘Artistic Director’.

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Fire Cider for the Community
Alessandra Pilkington Alessandra Pilkington

Fire Cider for the Community

In someone’s basement in Bed-Stuy, a group of danced-out celestial beings came up with the marvelous idea of making Fire Cider for the ‘community’ to ward off this season’s gay cold. It quickly shifted from Fire-Cider for the community to how we can market it and sell it for our own delectable profit.

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Local Roots
Kate Sopko Kate Sopko

Local Roots

Wen-Jay Yang has big goals. Emblazoned across pens, coffee cup sleeves, and stickers for her business Local Roots is the phrase “food can change the world.”

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