Apteka

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Sundays 9-11p @ Apteka is Lonely No More.

June lineup:

6/7 (Tomorrow) : Jazzteka -
avant jazz exploration - live free jazz 3 piece-
Dylan Zeh, Eli Weidman, Derek Bendel.

6/14 Ziad Adamo shares post Arab spring awakening.
Traditional rhythms and music interpreted by contemporary artists and new instruments.

6/21 Michael Parente lingers for this last chance for a slow dance.
MP’s last weekend in Pittsburgh- set to soundtrack of techno> ambient> instrumental>
house> techno.

6/28 Dana Bishop Root plays Resistance songs.
>> A kind of breath work, a call to each other in rage, in grief, in tire.
Jubilation is inevitable.

c u soon:*

Closed this Saturday, May 30th for a private event.

Regular hours otherwise:
Thursday 5/28 Vinoteka 5-9p
Friday 5/29 regular dinner service 5-10p
Sunday 5/31 regular dinner service 5-10p

C u soon:*

Late start to spring this year is Pittsburgh. Hot then cold — some things got frost early, some things germinated late. Still relying on the last bit of root veg stores while more green makes it to the building:)

Asparagus made it to us a few weeks ago-
the set we’re running this year is a green tasty one —>
Amish + Mason Farms asparagus sauteed in smoked onion+BP/WP+++ vin
paste at the bottom from mostly blanched fresh mint + boiled sunseeds
green jus from blanched TRG spinach + parsley with coriander heavy light stock-
with a spent flax + onion bun for soppin up the mess-
in ever so slightly limited supply while we are only getting about 65 #/ week to tide us over

+ perennial favorite back for the season —> sparkling mint tea from Coldco mint + dried peppermint and our fresh peppermint

C u sooooon:*

L o n e l y N o M o r e
M a y L i n e u p -—>

Tomorrow- this Sunday, May 3rd:
A Funeral Parade of Roses plays „Easy Listening For Difficult Personalities” —> leftfield selections of dub, post punk, ambient, jazz and komische.

May 10
Karilyo
fruit from hard labor grown in dub rich soil.

May 17
Kinseland Radio—> a vinyl-driven sonic experience created by Anqwenique and DS Kinsel —> listening to their hearts and trusting their hands to guide the groove, they take listeners on a journey through throwback deep cuts of classical, jazz, hip hop, rhythm and blues, rock, and retro pop.
Kinselland vinyl collection is a blend of ancestral inheritance and personal crate-digging discoveries.

May 24
Taste Sensation aka Anna B
plays through a spiritual commitment to your summer bod —> the salty taste of beading sweat on your upper lip + optimistic lunges.

May 31
Ricky Mawzlin
the other half of Jellyfish plays dreamy motorik grooves plucked from all over the world.

In one week - Wednesday, May 6th - we are hosting our friends Agnes and Katarina from Slobodné Vinárstvo, a farm and vineyard in western Slovakia to help contextualize their beautiful wines while we cook some Slovak spring staples for dinner:)

Tickets available through the link in our bio and on our website:)

Read about the incredible story of their historic family vineyard here: https://www.littlewine.io/winemaker-magazine/slobodne

We’ll be pouring through some of our favorite bottles with lots of food to pair.

See you then:*

Some food shots through Nate’s camera lens:

1–>
Zupa Szczawiowa
sour sorrel soup from fresh sorrel with wilted spinach, potato, and a nod to the regularly featured pairing of an egg—> instead soup cream from cultured nuts with a carrot dot. Slice of Mike’s spent flaxseed sourdough boule for dipping.

2–>
a. Sałatka Ziemniaczana
potato salad with Minty’s green garlic, spinach, fried and fresh onion, smoked celeriac, kale rabe, vin from our rye bread miso + cultured sunflower seed paste + charcoal oil
b. Lángos
Hungarian yeasted and fried bread with foraged greens picked early Friday by prof. Marek: flowering dame’s rocket + wild garlic + nettle + ramps + for today some hops shoots from our Apteka backyard -> all seared and sitting atop smoked double fat

Veg ++ from Coldco/ Central PA Produce Coop/ Three Rivers Grown/ Minty’s Garden/ Frankferd/ wild and wonderful Western PA, per always :)

see you this weekend:*

📷 :

Thrilled to say that Slobodné Vinárstvo is at Apteka May 6.
Slobodne Vinarstvo is a vineyard making beautiful wines in Hlohovec, Slovakia- about an hour NE of Bratislava lead by sisters Agnes and Katka, and their partners Andrea and Miso.

They’ve been a staple producer for us for almost as long as we’ve been open; a biodynamic wine project focused on great farming and minimal input intervention in the cellar, grown out of a farmstead with a tremendous story that started in 1912, when their family survived N***s and communism, and is now is their home.

Creative and experimental, Slobodne makes all types of music out of: Gruner Veltliner, Devin, Traminer, Riesling, Pinot G, Sauv B, Frankovka, Cab Sauv, Alibernet,..

Incomparably warm and generous hosts, back in 2021 they put us up for a couple nights- invited us to pick grapes, let us cosplay as vitners as we paddled traminer for their orange wines, tasted through all the amazing things they had working in the cellar at every stage- drank and smoked and ate artichokes. Don’t know where you’d even start looking for more cool + talented + real hard working people.
These are wines we, and many of you, have grown to know very well - and we’re over the moon we get to host Agnes and Katarina at Apteka for an evening pouring Slobodné wines paired with Slovak flavors of Spring:)

Event details:
Wednesday, May 6th
6-9p
Slobodné Vinárstvo wines with the makers
Plenty of food to fill you up
$90/person for food/wine/gratuity included.

Limited by space- tickets for this event will be available Friday (4/24) at noon through our website- email us if you run into trouble:)

Open for regular hours today—>
++ Lonely No More tonight is with the cool like Spring Jules Malice 9-11pm —>

Final stretch for the current dessert line-up:)

a. return of the chocolate mazurek with spent sunflower seed caramel and chocolate ganache and candied sunflower seeds

b. parsnip cake with parsnip creme pat, flaxseed meringue parsnip buttercream, standing tall in a puddle of candied parsnip anglaise

c. walnut milk ice cream with an oat & sunflower granola laced together with a honee we made from apples, oranges, and flowers including autumn olive blossoms and our last bit of precious honeysuckle syrup

Lonely No More—> Sundays 9-11p.
Deep vibrations :>)
Special $6 drink :~)

This month:
4/5 - Malzof plays through the lush and enchanted on their way to the groovy ambient. 

4/12- Albert Hall fills it out with sounds from the save room; ethereal sonic snacks for a nostalgic digital hang. 

4/19- Chaia performs electronic music built on sampled archival Yiddish folk music and practice- exploring echoes of memory and ritual.

4/26- Gladstone Deluxe rolls it out of hot mass and spoons it right back with bowlfuls of cloudy electro.

C u then:~*

Power is back today!
Food 5-10pm.
@9 Lonely No More is a knee deep in krautrock adventure with Stephen Tsong aka Formosa aka 1/2 of Jellyfish:)
$6 LNM special cocktail :))

Also-
A little dude leaving the menu soon:

Surówka z buraków
Prażony i gotowany słonecznik zmielony na hummusopodobną pastę z suszonym, po-zakwasowym burakiem + pestki dyni – na bardzo ostrym ogniu skarmelizowane i lekko przypalone – kilka cienkich piórek cebuli oraz melasa z buraków.

Na wierzchu mała sałatka z lekko przysmażonego buraka i jabłka marynowanego w zalewie po burakach, z dodatkiem ogórka konserwowego z zeszłego lata.

Podane z kromką ciemnego żytniego chleba 🤙

Bombeczka :)

~~~>>
Roast and boiled sunflower seeds blended into a hummusy paste with some post-zakwas beets+ sprinkled with burnt peppery candied pumpkin seeds+ some raw onion + and some beet molasses+ topped with a salad of lightly fried beets, apples marinated in beet brine+ crunchy Kirby pix from last summer:)

Served with a thin cut of our sunflower dark rye:)

-> extra fun Sunday making up for a blackout Saturday- c u sooooooon;^*