Why Stars Wine Bar Is So Good!!!
What to order at the new hotspot by the team behind Penny and Claud
My Friends,
Scroll down for a review of Stars, a great new wine bar in Manhattan’s East Village.
But first…
I’ll be honest: It’s been difficult to think about anything other than the ICE surge in Minnesota and the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday.
The 37-year-old Pretti, who had a permit to carry, was an intensive care unit nurse for the VA in Minneapolis. He was coming to the aid of a fellow demonstrator being pepper sprayed when masked agents took him to the ground, struck him repeatedly, and shot him at close range.
They fired 10 times in under five seconds, ABC News reported.
The shooting took place outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicolett Avenue in Minneapolis.
Talya Minsberg of the New York Times reported on the aftermath from the doughnut shop. She wrote that protestors gathered at the bakery, which provided free hot chocolate, coffee, pastries, and a warm space to gather.
One of the images I can’t shake from my head is how a local at Glam Doll “looked over the scene and, like others, wore face coverings to protect himself from tear gas coming from canisters launched into the streets by federal agents,” Minsberg wrote.
That was the scene from a doughnut shop in the United States of America.
Nicolett Avenue, also known as Eat Street, is a mostly-immigrant owned restaurant corridor in Minneapolis, as Kirstie Kimball reminds us in her Beyond Buerre Blanc newsletter.
Kimball, a restaurant critic, has assembled a list of Eat Street restaurants that are accepting online orders for gift cards. Among those venues are Quang, a Vietnamese spot, Pimento Jamaican Kitchen, and Glam Doll. Kimball suggests purchasing those cards as a form of support, as she believes some of those institutions will be “forced to close due to the volume of people coming to protest and observe.”
She goes on: “Our restaurants need us badly as ICE has targeted restaurants and restaurant workers in their operations…”
The owners of Glam Doll Donuts posted about Saturday’s killing on Instagram today.
“The experience we had yesterday will haunt us all for life. Alex Pretti will live with us forever,” the two proprietors wrote. They added: “Things are going to be tough here for a while. Making donuts is hard work that takes people and time and everyone is traumatized right now. Please give us a little time to recuperate but please also support us.”
Glam Doll wrote that the shop will be closed on Monday and Tuesday and then “we will return because WE LOVE YOU MINNEAPOLIS. The tragedies we continue to experience together are horrifying but our people are beyond beautiful and we don’t take your shit.” Click through for the full caption.
All about Stars, a wine bar that’s actually a wine bar!
Including…
An epic (and tiny) shrimp sandwich
The case for “blini service” at Stars
Notes on the “effervescent” apple slices and the fancy potato frico
Some thoughts on the affordable beverage list at Stars
