Do you know about our beer selection?

For such a small place, we sure carry a lot of beers. From our four taps right now you’ll get Kelso Pilsner, Two Brothers Domain Dupage, Sixpoint Sweet Action, and Blue Point Oatmeal Stout. These are some great beers that go well with our food and are well-suited to a mellow afternoon at Northern Spy, tucked into a booth with some flatbread, cheese, and a plate of house-made headcheese. But the beer adventures don’t end at the taps.

Your weekly pig…

You’ll notice that our menu says, of the pork dish, “Fleisher’s pastured pork, ask about our daily preparation.” You might wonder why this one item on our menu is left open-ended in this way.The reason is that every Wednesday morning, our friends at Fleisher’s Grass-Fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, NY, deliver one side of a whole pig to us.

Snow day? Doesn’t stop us, we’re open all day!

It’s snowy, slushy, and cold out there, and hopefully you’ve had the good sense to stay home from work. Fortunately, we don’t have that good sense, so we’re open all day, snow or no. It’s warm in here and the food is fresh, so come by for a lazy-day drink and meal.

We’re nominated for a 2010 TimeOut NY Eat Out Award!

Hey everyone, we are pretty honored to be nominated for an Eat Out Award from TimeOut NY. We’re nominated for “Best new neighborhood joint: Manhattan.” That’s exactly what we hoped to be, so thank you. This is a reader’s choice award, so we need all the votes we can rally to win it. Voting ends March 1st, so spread the word and let’s take this thing.

NY Times loves our trotters: “The pig’s foot at Northern Spy Food Company may be the friendliest in town.”

“The pig’s foot at Northern Spy Food Company may be the friendliest in town.

The meat has been stripped off the bone, rolled around a sauté of mustard greens — a sly riff on that Southern classic, collard greens and ham hocks — then breaded and fried. What arrives at the table has the innocent mien of a crab cake, plump and golden.

Slice into it and the pork spills out, outrageously tender. There is nothing to tip off the squeamish that we’ve entered hoof territory.

Edible Manhattan says “One of Our New Favorite East Village Places”

Take a Bite: The Famous New York Northern Spy Apple, at Left, is also the Name of One of Our New Favorite East Village Places

The Northern Spy apple, a variety first planted in New York state in the early 1800s, was known for bearing big, colorful, juicy fruit that were legendary keepers, so they ended up in a lot of pies and sauce and other wintertime dishes. Not surprisingly, the cozy, 900-square-foot East Village restaurant (511 E. 12th St.) that bares this persistent fruit’s name was, on a recent chilly day, awash in farm-fresh cockles-warming treats being served to a bustling lunch time crowd.

Find. Eat. Drink: “They not only respect your dollar, but they also respect the product.”

“900 square feet doesn’t make for a very big restaurant, especially a place that also functions as a boutique gourmet market. But somehow Northern Spy Food Co. pulls it off, creating an atmosphere that walks the line of homey and hip.

What’s new on our shelves…

We have a fantastic selection of great artisan foods for you to take home and enjoy.  Our favorite recent arrival, for beer afficionados, are 1-gallon home brewing kits from Brooklyn Brew Shop. We have the jugs, the ingredients, and the instructions. All you add is water and a couple weeks of patience. These make terrific gifts!

Northern Spy Food Co. going live and local!

Here we are folks, finally live and up-to-date with our website. Here’s some information about what’s happening at the Spy, what to look for on our website, and what to expect in the coming months.

TimeOutNY says “perfect restaurant for the broke locavore”

“Part of the problem with eating well—healthfully, deliciously and environmentally correctly—is that it’s expensive. Enter Northern Spy Food Co., a restaurant that serves locally sourced meals at reasonable prices (no dish costs more than $15).