{"id":562553,"date":"2026-07-27T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/562553\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:37:14","slug":"an-intimate-italian-dinner-at-alimentari-flaneurs-new-culinary-studio-in-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/562553\/","title":{"rendered":"An Intimate Italian Dinner at Alimentari Flaneur\u2019s New Culinary Studio in Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alimentari Flaneur\u2019s story begins, as many of the best New York stories do, in chaos\u2014specifically, the uncertain months of the spring of 2020, when the city locked down and the then 26-year-old Soares decided that the moment called for a pop-up produce market. A more permanent space in the basement of Essex Market on the Lower East Side followed in late spring 2021, partly as a way to secure work for his then-girlfriend. \u201cShe needed a job when farming season ended,\u201d he says. When that outpost shut down, the world was, effectively, Soare\u2019s freshly shucked oyster. The fourth-generation Balducci could\u2019ve set his sights on opening the city\u2019s next Dean &amp; Deluca, but after a few years of building out his team and growing the business, a gourmet grocer just wasn\u2019t in the cards. The bottega was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alimentari Flaneur\u2019s story begins, as many of the best New York stories do, in chaos\u2014specifically, the uncertain months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[150510,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-562553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dinner-party","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}