Little Poutine

Our thoughts are with everyone in Western North Carolina who are impacted by Hurricane Helene. This natural disaster is personal - my mom and dad live just outside Marshall, NC, a small river town that was submerged by the flooding. Thankfully my family is safe (Ed. thank you so much to everyone who has checked in on us). Plus, Little Poutine recently spent a week cooking at the Applewood Manor in Asheville, NC. So many people have been displaced and are in need of clean water and food. If you are able to, please donate to a local mutual aid program to help the community stay safe and healthy. Here are a couple my family highly recommends: Beacon of Hope (Marshall, NC - food bank): /donate-1-1 Be Loved Asheville (Asheville, NC - food distribution and community rehabilitation): We all deserve access to clean food and water; thank you for making a contribution.

Such a unique and fun experience in nyc! @thatdinnerthing hosted a group of amazing singles over a gorgeous, multi-course dinner at @little.poutine . We all spent time getting to know each other, and then the host passed out envelopes that contained the name of everyone’s most compatible match. Should we do it again?? Let us know!

We wrote you a letter. Well, actually, we wrote you two. A handwritten note and a deeply personal menu. Words only go so far, after all. And what we couldn’t capture in words, we put into our dishes and what we couldn’t quite say in our dishes, we asked Anna Schrader @agschrades to say in her artwork. For LP16 in Asheville, we were lucky enough to work with Anna, a self-taught painting and block print artist from Brevard, North Carolina. Her work, inspired by Appalachian folk art and her roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains was the obvious pairing for a menu pulled from the soil of Appalachia. When she said yes, we told her about the farms @sebastian.elie.york grew up on, the tomato plants and trout we’d be using, and the hard work that went into bringing them from their rolling backdrop to our kitchen. This hand-carved wood-cut menu print was her beautiful answer. It needed worthy packaging. Each guest received a personally addressed envelope with a handwritten note from the team, a copy of their menu, all sealed with a wax seal custom made for us in Venice. From us, to you. P.S — we feel especially lucky to have added this menu to the iconic bathroom walls of Applewood Manor, posted with years of dinners from chefs we admire. And lucky to have cooked there at all, just weeks before they have now closed permanently.

it’s here!! singles of nyc.. fill out the application by friday, 10/11 for your shot at coming to our plus one matchmaking dinner ❤️‍🔥🙂‍↕️ app is in bio or bit.ly/findmeamatch you’ll hear from us by saturday, 10/12 with a link to take your compatibility quiz and buy tickets to dinner. you’ll have 48 hours to confirm your attendance before we move to the waitlist. we hope to see you there…and so will your match.

are you hot? are you single? what if we told you we could be your matchmaker on oct 18th? we’re throwing our very first singles dinner party based on guest compatibility. before attending dinner, you’ll will be asked to take a matchmaking questionnaire, powered by @matchbox.party . we’ll find your perfect match and invite you both to attend if — and only if — you’re one of our most compatible matches. you won’t know who your match is when you arrive but you will by the time you leave 👀 you know we couldn’t throw a matchmaking event without finding our perfect match, so this dinner party is a spicy collaboration between @thatdinnerthing and @little.poutine ❤️‍🔥 we will be dropping the application 🤝 so sign up to be notified via email at that dinner thing’s website (link in bio) and you’ll get an email with next steps. see you there. xoxoxo 💋

You never forget your first oyster. An honor that our kitchen bite at LP16 was @lemonwedgeplz first oyster experience. Well, at least the first enjoyable one. // NC oyster with compressed spicy watermelon and gazpacho inspired by night one. Because it was just so good we couldn’t bear for the night 2 crowd to miss out.

LP16 - RIVER TROUT River trout, cured with watermelon rind and smoked over fire, swimming in gazpacho with compressed watermelon, cucumber and chervil oil. The trout, a tribute to summer nights spent camping alongside rivers with Vitor. The gazpacho, a nod to the first dish Eron and Seb prepared together at Tiny Deck in DC over three years ago.

LP16 Part I - Memory Applewood Manor, a historic Bed & Breakfast in Asheville, North Carolina, welcomed us to cook one of the last dinners they’ll ever serve for guests before they close to the public this Fall. To do it in a house with over a hundred years of history in its walls was an honor. For half of our team, this was a homecoming to North Carolina and for Seb, this menu was the product of a lifelong friendship between him and our host chef at Applewood, Vitor Schizzi. And his relationship with every LP team member who joined, all of whom are close friends. And, for that matter, even the menu was a reflection of his relationship with Asheville’s farmers (Thank you @gainingground !!) and his summers planting and harvesting vegetables. In other words, this was a dinner fueled by memory and nostalgia — dishes, flavors and ingredients that have stayed with us, all served in a historic home to old friends (and several of our parents!). The chefs used the best of summer’s provisions, touching almost every dish with fire and putting together a menu we were incredibly proud to serve. And damn was it fun to do so.

Gulab Jamun made a STATEMENT at LP15. And other good moments from hanging with you all 30 floors above Brooklyn ❤️‍🔥 Tickets for LP16 — the North Carolina edition — live in our bio now.

Little Poutine invites you to a one-of-a-kind dinner party at Applewood Manor July 26-27. The meal is a love letter in so many ways — to traditional Southern cooking practices, to Asheville’s local produce, to the final months of a historic bed & breakfast, and perhaps most of all, to a childhood friendship. Chefs — and childhood friends — Vitor Schizzi and Sebastian Elie-York join forces in North Carolina to feature local, fresh ingredients, showcasing the best Asheville has to offer during the peak of summer. Guests will explore Appalachian grains and local produce, meats, and fish during an interactive dining experience, with a course-led tour of the Applewood Manor and many opportunities to learn from the chefs directly. The LP team will be flying down to Asheville together to harvest much of the meals produce from Gaining Ground Farm, the farm you can see Sebastian living his hot farm boy summer in the photos above. In addition to farming in Appalachia, Sebastian has cooked at the The Dabney, a Michelin starred Mid-Atlantic haunt, and Crooks Corner Cafe, a James Beard Classic. Applewood Manor Culinary Director Vitor Schizzi started his culinary career after his professional cycling endeavors, where he first met Sebastian. Vitor trained under Asheville’s first James Beard nominee chef Jacob Sessoms, and cooked with Michelin recognized chefs including Mads Refslund of Ilis, Xavier Mathieu of Le Phebus, and Marc Fosh. Heavily influenced by southern Brazilian and Chilean cuisines, Vitor loves open fire cooking techniques. Join us for a celebration of local flavors and a tribute to the culinary heritage that shaped the remarkable journeys of two chefs and childhood friends. Tickets are in our bio now.

Golden hour looks good on everyone. But especially yall. @thediningcollectivenyc and @grizzlymikeofficial both absolutely cooked, in their own ways, at our sundowner last month. And after their rigorous testing, we can confirm escabeche and duck reuben flatbreads pair perfectly with atmospheric funk and disco remixes. Bar slingers @mattmohhr , @eli.hirschfeld Kitchen conductor @sebastian.elie.york Gracious host @kayolord Social maven @vibrantvaleria Guest photographer @cterkiel With special appearances on the decks from @gabriellakoppelman and @luttermaneats Thank you all for being there. This month, we take LP on the road to North Carolina. Stay tuned.

THIS SATURDAY For all you Memorial Day out-of-towners, you’re in luck. We’ve rescheduled our Golden Hour Sundowner to this Saturday, June 8th. Same show-stopping venue, same master chefs, same Grizzly Mike on the tracks, same summer spritzes. ### We find our DJ-Chef pairing on a Dumbo top floor balcony overlooking the Statue of Liberty. 4pm through golden hour. It felt like the only way to launch into Summer and the third edition of our party series. Our guest chefs are former Gramercy Tavern Chefs Charley Donnelly and Jordan Fairbanks, the culinary powerhouses behind @thediningcollectivenyc . Sunset tunes are brought to you by the always groovy and forever flirty (musically, of course) Grizzly Mike. When you meet the team, you’ll understand why we’ve put this pairing together — this crew has a certain calm composure and a deep care for the quality of their components. In other words, watching Grizzly Mike dig through Brooklyn’s record bins isn’t so different from watching Chef Charley and Jordan comb the Union Square Farmers Market. Come prepared to dance. Tickets live in our bio now.