Chef's Lab x Queens Night Market brings the spirit of New York City's legendary open-air feast to Harlem for one night only.

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The first edition of the 2026 Chef's Lab series celebrates the influence of Italian culture in Harlem with a menu prepared by Silvia Baldini and Guest Chefs from the Istituto 100% Italiano. Music TBA.

Silvia will be joined by Chefs Roberto Caporuscio, Luigi Speranza, Raffaele Solinas, Silvia Barban and Damiano Rosella from Istituto 100% Italiano. The event is sponsored and supported by I Love Italian Food, House of Made in Italy, Istituto 100% Italiano and the North America Delegation of the Professional Association of Italian Chefs.

Breaking bread around the heart of Africa in Harlem with words, sound and delicious food with Alexander Smalls, Chef Joe Hayes, Chef Nduvo Salaam and Ian Troost. Program details to be announced. 

Tonight we celebrate the culinary and creative universe of Restaurateur, James Beard award winning author, and opera singer Alexander Smalls.

Alexander has a long and storied career in Harlem. His restaurants, Minton’s and The Cecil, created a lineage of young chefs that continue to define food trends. He joined the board of the Harlem School of The Arts in 2014, and served as board chair of Opus 118 Music School from 2007 to 2009.

The Chef’s Lab is celebrating his latest book Contemporary African Kitchen which presents a vibrant library of home cooking recipes and texts contributed by 33 chefs, restaurateurs, caterers, cooks, and writers at the heart of Africa’s food movement. 

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A celebration for the food insecure community served by Refettorio Harlem by invite only. Alexander Smalls is a James Beard Award–winning chef and cookbook author. He is a regular celebrity chef on the Today show, Top Chef, and other Food Network shows, and is the founder of the first contemporary modern African Dining Hall in Dubai. When Alexander Graced the Table, based on Alexander’s childhood, is his first picture book and we will celebrate this with a night of food and families, along with a reading

A collaboration between GALLIM led by Artistic Director Andrea Miller, and Chef Avi Szapiro…., Silvia Baldini, and Refettorio Harlem’s Kayla Phillips

Chef’s Lab x GALLIM is an immersive evening of nourishment, artistry, and community—where culinary excellence meets the transformative power of dance, co-curated by Meryl Rosofsky and Silvia Baldini. This unique collaboration brings together GALLIM, under the visionary direction of Artistic Director Andrea Miller, and the culinary brilliance of Chef Silvia Baldini, and Refettorio Harlem’s Chef Kayla Phillips, with more collaborators to be announced soon!

Held as a joint fundraiser for GALLIM’s new dance work by Andrea Miller entitled MOTHER and Refettorio Harlem’s mission to feed and uplift local communities through dignity and food, the evening invites guests to gather around a gourmet four-course meal, thoughtfully prepared and inspired by themes of origin, seed, humanity, and the act of giving.

Throughout the night, guests will experience live performances by GALLIM Artists, weaving movement into the meal and bringing to life the shared values of care, connection, and creative expression!

Please join us for this meaningful evening of art, food, and mission.

The Chef’s Lab Presents: Sisterhood in the Kitchen and Beyond

A program celebrating Sisterhood and all the women in our lives pushing creative boundaries.

Chef Silvia Baldini, Bobbie Lloyd from Magnolia Bakery, Bilena Settepani, Forsythia’s Sydney McGee, Victoria Granof, Wine Pro Wanda Mann,  Karla Sorrentino of Karla’s Kreamery in collaboration with Olio Piro. Urbani Truffles, Calvisius Caviar, Harlem Brewing Company, San Pellegrino, Curious Elixirs, and Illy Coffee.

Music Curated by Jill Newman Productions.

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Food is Love: The Harlem Chef’s Lab at Refettorio Harlem

A Celebration of Community, Food, and Art featuring Brother Shep, Artist in Residence Fallou Wadje, special musical guests, and chefs to be announced February 17th.

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Refettorio Harlem’s Holiday Soirée, December 9, 2024. An evening of poetic gastronomy tasted through the interpretation of Langston Hughes’ Montage of a Dream Deferred, the 5 course meal will be introduced with live musical interpretations by special guest(s)

Participating chefs include J.J. Johnson, Asia Shabazz, Russell Jackson, Celeste and Khouri Beatty, Aliyyah Baylor,  Nino and Bilena Settepani.

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Refettorio Harlem, part of Massimo Bottura’s Food for Soul network, is pleased to announce a food rescue and fine dining collaboration with some of the top chefs in the world. The Refettorio Harlem Guest Chef Nights feeds 150 individuals and families a free…

The non-profit Harlem Chamber Players Inc., is an ethnically diverse collective of professional classical musicians dedicated to bringing high-caliber, affordable, accessible live music to people in the Harlem community and beyond.

Join us on Monday, February 5 as Free Food Harlem hosts nationally renown criminal justice reformist Dr Topeka K. Sam for a talk followed by a three course meal. Topeka has spent the last decade creating The Ladies of Hope Ministries, which works to end the poverty crisis and the incarceration of women and girls. She’s worked on multiple pieces of state and federal legislation aimed specifically at the rights of women in prison, including prohibiting the long standing practice of maintaining handcuff restraints on women in labor while incarcerated. In addition to her nonprofit work, she’s a co-founder of a social benefit bank aimed at providing banking services to those caught in the criminal Justice system often discriminated against by national banks.

The talk will conclude with a 3 course meal provided by Free Food Harlem.

$75 tickets and “pay what you can” tickets at $10 pp person are available

Details:

5:30 - 7:30

37 West 119th St.