Chef Nick Curtola & The Four Horsemen Team Author Talk • The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant

This event is being hosted off-site at Moongate Lounge. You can find more information and tickets here.

Chef Nick Curtola, originally from The Bay Area, pays homage to his native California roots by creating clean, vibrant and fresh dishes that are thoughtful and inspiring and lean heavily on sourcing and quality of ingredients. The restaurant also received the James Beard Award for best wine program in the country.

Brandon Jew is the executive chef and owner of Mister Jiu's, a contemporary Chinese American restaurant in the heart of San Francisco Chinatown. Mister Jiu's combines the local, seasonal and organic bounty of the Bay Area together with classic Chinese techniques and flavors.

The story begins in 2014, when four friends with practically zero restaurant experience between them naively decided to open a restaurant in New York City. They called the place The Four Horsemen, and they hired a largely unknown chef, Nick Curtola, to lead its tiny kitchen. Even though they did almost everything wrong at the start, The Four Horsemen now has a Michelin star, a waiting list for tables seven nights a week, and a James Beard Award for the best wine program in the United States—not to mention a global reputation as a must-visit destination in New York City. Of Curtola’s food, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells wrote, in a glowing review, “The effortlessly casual plates are not, in fact, effortless or casual, a realization that only dawns on you as you’re wondering why this sausage or that pickle is the best thing you’ve tasted in ages.”

In the acclaimed restaurant’s debut cookbook, Curtola explains his approach to simplicity with warmth, clarity, and more than 100 recipes. The book begins with a humorous and moving introduction by co-founder James Murphy, which sets the stage for Curtola’s writing and recipes, casual and informative essays by natural wine pioneer Justin Chearno, and appearances by Murphy and Chearno’s fellow horsemen Christina Topsøe and Randy Moon. Throughout, readers will also find suggestions related to a subject on which the four unwitting friends were experts long before they built the restaurant: how to have a bit of fun.