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For the first time ever, it’s just the two of us For the first time ever, it’s just the two of us running service, albeit a small one. We put a lot of love into the wine lists at Apteka, but rarely get to talk to anyone about it. Running the bottle shop today (no food) and are here, parked in the doorway, to talk wine. Shop is open today 2-7pm. Restocked and added a bunch of new wines: Swick + Mother Rock + Wild Arc + Belliviere + Rouges-Queues + Henriot + De Moor + Microbio + Klein. . c u in an hour:)
Mamy lody:) . Ice cream + sorbet line up looking p Mamy lody:) . Ice cream + sorbet line up looking pretty nice🌞 . From left to right : . - Sunflower milk ice cream - CRO rhubarb - We-picked dark sour cherry - Frank’s plums - Frank’s peaches . Peak fruit = perfect sorbet. Spun fresh on the daily. Ice cream comes solo, sorbets are paired up. Check out our online ordering to pick some up- taking pre-orders for food day-of starting at 11a✌️✌️
New Bottle Shop hours! (wine+cocktail+n/a drinks) New Bottle Shop hours! (wine+cocktail+n/a drinks): Th 2-7p Fr 4-8p Sa 4-8p Su 2-7p . Along with wine, you have this fun pop & pour set to dig into (now dressed in labels:D!) : . Kompot musujący z wiśni/ Dark sour cherries + co2. (Non-alcoholic) . cocktail (a): our black currant cordial+ spruce syrup+ cedar berry & juniper+ vermouth. . cocktail (b): our quince cordial + our cornelian cherry cordial+ nettle & mint tincture + co2. . Kwas chlebowy: thee carbonated summer crusher/ bread kvass made from our organic dark rye. (Non-alcoholic) . Restocked a bunch of wines and adding a big wine drop to the list this week, so keep those peepers peepin👀!
Pierogi z wiśniami+ sok derenia + nasz jogurt+ p Pierogi z wiśniami+ sok derenia + nasz jogurt+ posypka z suszonych liści czarnej porzeczki. . Dark sour cherry pierogi+ cornelian cherry juice+ our nut yogurt+ black currant leaf sugar. . We made a snack version of this dish last year in Seattle, but it deserved a bigger portion size with a hometown audience. . Planning to have it here for next week too:)
Duszonka Letnia- Aka what we eat when we get home Duszonka Letnia- Aka what we eat when we get home when it’s not nachos. - @whocooksforyoufarmpa tomatoes+ CRO wax beans+ @noworms zucchini+ eye of the goat beans @rancho_gordo+ other stuff + our naturally leavened light rye+ double fat and dill. . 🌞What I want🌞 . Preorders today at 11am- through our website/ link in profile.
Almost sold out of preorders for tonight, but a)if Almost sold out of preorders for tonight, but a)if you’re super quick you might get lucky, or b) preorders for Saturday evening start Saturday at 11am:) . We love this weekend’s desserts: A) jagodzianki- the quintessential summer treat. Fresh blueberries picked by these very hands with the right dough, the right crumble- A+ B) Ciasto Marzeny- every time I go to Ursus to see my aunt Marzena, she has my very favorite blue plum and semolina cake waiting for me. I love my aunt, I love this cake. C) Sorbets are the sleeper hit. Frank’s peaches + CRO summer rhubarb:) . 👅
New packs up and the bottle shop opens today 2p-7p New packs up and the bottle shop opens today 2p-7p! (Food tomorrow and Saturday) Put together some good groups for summer sipping. Also have bottled cocktails + n/a options on the site. Order + arrive masked up & with your ID:) C u soon
Some snaps of our menu planning for the week:) . D Some snaps of our menu planning for the week:) . Drove to pick 300# of dark sour cherries (contact free + open air, of course), plus some bonus magic plums and blueberries. Expect to see some extra special additions to the food roster. Also, major props to our crew who hand-pitted all of those damn cherries in one work day. Wowza! . SCHEDULE FOR THIS WEEK! FOOD: Friday + Saturday 4-8p pick-up (online pre-orders open day-of at 11a) BOTTLE SHOP: Thursday 2p-7p Friday - Saturday 4-8p (also with pre-orders opening at 11a day-of) . Thursday will be bottle shop only : wine + cocktails + non-alcoholic bottled beverages. Purchase through our website aptekapgh.com/wine, or call us 412-251-0189 or walk up! . Friday and Saturday will be booze + food. For preorders, click the "ORDER" button on our website to check out the menu. Food menu will update by 10a on Friday, and the shop will open at 11a Friday morning. You can put in your preorder, and make sure that you select a pick-up time to come grab your grub. Booze + bevies available for preorder as well. You are welcome to call us with any questions. . Make sure that you are wearing a mask when you pick up your food + bev. We will not serve you if you are not wearing a mask. Also, bring an ID if you are picking up alcohol!
Planning for the long-haul of to-go life, we put s Planning for the long-haul of to-go life, we put some love into our travelling beverages, both cocktails & non-alcoholic drinks. ^^Pictured are our drinks in their lovely dress labels that are en-route, for today though, you're getting nude bottles:) . Our opening lineup of 'pop & pour' 12oz bottles is such: . A) Cocktail #1- Our black currant cordial + spruce syrup + juniper & cedarberry tincture + dry & sweet vermouth. B) Cocktail #2- CRO rhubarb + honeysuckle we picked+ vodka + hops tincture & angostura. Non-alcoholic: C) Kompot musujący z wiśni- dark sour cherry sparkling kompot from Lake Ontario dark tarts. D) Kwas Chlebowy- bread kvass made from our organic rye sourdough- the best summer crusher! . Cocktails are packed 2 servings in a bottle, N/A drinks are one and done:) In the online store or you can just walk up! . 4-8pm tonight! . ^labels by Kate:)
Preorders for tonight just started a few minutes a Preorders for tonight just started a few minutes ago:) Don't sleep on it. The menu includes this dude: Botwinianka/ Beet-top sandwich We make it out of one of our new favorite breads - it's naturally leavened and made with roasty spent sunflower seeds and some beautiful carraway from @burlapandbarrel -> so that bread + seared off @whocooksforyoufarmpa beet tops we fermented with spices and different dried boletes from last summer + wcfy tomatoes + @noworms kirby cucs + parsley pesto + mayo spun with our marjoram oil. We like this one a lot. It's dope.
Hej, Tomorrow is the day:) Tip-toeing back into fo Hej, Tomorrow is the day:) Tip-toeing back into food and sprinting back into the bottle shop! Here’s the deal. Menu is small but damn nice. Pierogi / sandwiches / pirozhki / some sweet things. Plus cocktails to go, and really, really cool n/a bottled drinks. Menu will be posted tomorrow morning, and we will start taking preorders at 11am through our website (aptekapgh.com and click the order button). We’ll be serving food and selling booze 4p-8p, so make sure that you select a pick up time so we know when to expect you:) Don’t sleep on it - expecting to sell out pretty quickly. C u soon🌈
We missed ya. And if you think we've been sitting We missed ya. And if you think we've been sitting on our hands, you don't know us at all. We're inching back into an uncertain world with some ideas for Apteka that better suit our current situation. We have no plans for dine-in service anytime soon, but we still want to provide you all with something special. Food is coming soon -- shooting for next week. But tomorrow, we roll out something new:) Apteka's wine list consisted of natural wines since the beginning, but since we can't host you at our bar, we've evolved our focus to provide you all with a cool list of bottles for you to take back home or across the street to the cemetery. The list showcases producers that really stand out to us. Organic and often biodynamic practices in the field, and really awesome work in cellar. Minimal intervention to produce really killer wines. The website is up, although the list will be growing bigger as early as tomorrow afternoon as more wines are delivered. We will take and fill orders starting tomorrow (Friday) and this Saturday 4-8p. Otherwise plan to see a regular schedule starting next week. Browse on aptekapgh.com/wines, and to place an order, use the order link to route to our online ordering system. There is some great info on each bottle and producer, but definitely reach out to orders@aptekapgh.com or call us 412-251-0189 for recs and wine chat. Details for how this works: A) Only our staff is allowed in the building, but we will have a table set up in the doorway of the restaurant for pickup or walk-up orders. B) Please wear a mask, aka- we straight up don't fuck with anyone not wearing a mask:D C) Keep your distance from each other and please do not crowd the doorway. D) BRING AN ID. We can't sell you wine without it - even if you placed your order online. E) Place your order online before you come, or walk up to the door to pick some stuff out. We're excited - hope you are too:) c u soon
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When this thing first hit us in early March, it wa When this thing first hit us in early March, it was a straight punch in the gut. The week started with a really busy Wednesday, and ended with us dragging ourselves over the finish line on Sunday. We’ve all heard it from so many sides that it’s a complete shock for a small business built for volume like ours, to a suddenly come to a screeching halt. Payroll, credit card bills, and food meant for a pre-corona Apteka, passed on to a post-corona Apteka, cut real deep into what we imagined before was a pretty healthy safety net. On that Monday we met with our two managers to feel out what we all thought was a way forward. We all decided that by limiting the number of people allowed in the building to just our tiny crew, and with the proper protocols- the quarantine of ourselves and significant others, only glove and masked ventures for groceries- that we could attempt a new to-go business. It was hard, we are not set up for this sort of thing. We had to invent and adapt to an essentially new business. You guys were amazing, patient with us as we operated off one shitty phone we hide from the public and our cellphones, and came out in force with goodwill for all the food, shirts, gift certificates, etc... ->you guys were awesome. Thank you! . On our end though, our team killed it. In spite of our small crew, we didn’t cut corners. We kept up with making everything from scratch- as we normally would- including baking bread for that days service. We constantly improved on systems, flow, and efficiency- everyday solving problems from the day before. Service was crazy, but food came out right and fast. In spite of long days, and a few tense moments, we kept incredibly positive attitudes, and if anything, this brought us closer together. Kat: our sous, Kolin: our FOH manager, Claire: our forever bandaid, and Teddy: our new but confident swimmer, were all amazing and indispensable. They were all in, and that’s why this thing was a real success. . So thank you all and thank you to our wonderful covid crew- Apteka is safe and hibernating. We’re closed until further notice, but know we’re still here working on the Apteka we’ll come back to. Stay safe and c u soon🖤
Hello friends, . This is the menu for our last wee Hello friends, . This is the menu for our last weekend of take-out. . It's been a serious ride working through these past few weeks. A handful of us in hyper-quarantine locked ourselves up in the restaurant and essentially started an entirely new business over the course of a few days, and adjusted it to fit over a couple of weeks. We are so thankful for the support during this time, and we are thrilled that we've been able to provide fun+healthy+good food during a time when people need it. . But, these are some pretty scary and stressful times, and we've made the decision to close up shop for now. We'll be back, but for now our last service is Sunday. . We will operate the same hours this weekend -- Friday - Sunday 4p-9p. . We are taking pre-order for food through e-mail : orders@aptekapgh.com, and phone and e-mail orders during service Friday - Sunday 4p - 9p : 412-251-0189 or orders@aptekapgh.com. Check stories for more fun stuff. Stay updated to any changes with our Instagram and website aptekapgh.com. . Love you all. Hope you are staying safe out there. . c u thru sunday.
In 2009, I went on a student trip alongside my big In 2009, I went on a student trip alongside my big brother to Mongolia. The trip began in Beijing, included a few weeks traveling through northern China and far east Russian, and ended up in Mongolia with time spent in the country's capital and countryside. . Three days of the summer long trip were spent on the Trans-Siberian Railway to cover the distance between Hohhot and Irkutsk. A few times a day, the train would stop in a rural town in Russia for a few minutes, and some old ladies would have carts set up selling whole smoked fish, cigarettes, and homemade pirozhki. . We'd buy stacks of the pirozhki at every stop. The fried dough pockets were stuffed with cabbage or potato, and you'd only know after taking a bite which one you got. . I've been wanting to put them on the menu since we opened, but here they are now. Pirozhki. One cabbage, one potato. Served with some condiments reminiscent of my very brief time spent on the Trans Siberian and Russia. Double fat cream, pickled beets with onion, and a carrot marmalade. . On for take-out at least through the weekend. . See yesterday’s post for full menu and ordering instructions. C u at 4p🌼
APTEKA WEEKEND TAKE OUT STARTS TODAY AT 4p! . We w APTEKA WEEKEND TAKE OUT STARTS TODAY AT 4p! . We will be operating our new to-go biz Friday - Sunday, 4p-9p this week. . Place an order by phone : 412-251-0189 and be ready with your name, order, and credit card information. Place an order via email : orders@aptekapgh.com Include your name, phone number, order, and desired pick-up time. We will get back to you with a total and Venmo information for you to settle up (add a tip to your total if you would like), or let us know if we should call you for a credit card number. We are only accepting payments via phone or Venmo in order to limit human contact:) . We will have tables set up out front for picking up your order. Bags will be clearly labeled with your name and pick-up time. Please wait at least 6 feet apart from other customers picking up their orders, or wait in your car until your pick-up time. We are working to be as safe as possible. . Menus are up! Peruse and order. ❤️❤️❤️
TAKE OUT STARTS AT 4p with the addition of a few s TAKE OUT STARTS AT 4p with the addition of a few special items! . Added to the sweets list: ciasto smietankowe z morela : rich cream cake with roast apricot preserves, yogurt, and apricot pit jam. . Also, for the first time ever, we are selling our yogurt by the quart/pint. It's good stuff. We start with cashews and almonds, make a rich milk, and ferment. No additives or binders -- just nice stuff. We made some extra to get you sad vegans through breakfast (us included). $13/ quart // $6.5/ pint. Call it it with your food order or solo during our pick-up hours tonight. . Thanks to everyone who reached out about shirts yesterday -- we still have many more (thanks, @pyrepress)! Call one in or e-mail with your color (black r white) and size (s-xxl). We ship! We are intaking orders over the next few days, so you'll hear from us asap if you haven't already:) . Check out our menus and stories for +++. Call or e-mail for grub etc 4-9p tonight : 412-251-0189 or orders@aptekapgh.com. . ❤️much love❤️ . (Pictured: stoner doner / stoner salad / cake / yogurt).
Take out food menus for today! . Check stories for Take out food menus for today! . Check stories for xtras. Tshirts + libations. Want something? Ask! . Catch you today 4p-9p. 412-251-0189 orders@aptekapgh.com . Be safe out there💘
STARTING TOMORROW! We’re doing take out from the STARTING TOMORROW! We’re doing take out from the restaurant with APTEKA + CRAPTEKA goods. Call in your order to 412-251-0189 or e-mail orders@aptekapgh.com. Please include your phone number in an emailed order + order is confirmed when you receive a reply. . 4p-9p. Friday -Sunday. . C u soon✌️
Starting this Friday, we will be offering call-in Starting this Friday, we will be offering call-in ordering with curbside pickup with items from our APTEKA and CRAPTEKA menus. . Keep an eye out for the menu, and see you from a safe distance starting Friday. . Already miss u 😘
Often overlooked, I always felt Polish ice cream Often overlooked, I always felt Polish ice cream & sorbets were awesome. Their contrast to what I was used to in the early 90s around Pittsburgh was so clear as to compare fruit loops to homemade granola. Artificial rainbow colors that enticed me here were replaced with the simple but special flavors I luckily preferred of gooseberries, black currants, fresh whipped cream, wild strawberries... all from the original Zielona Butka which was only 3 blocks away from our family apartment. It was a several times a week staple. We've wanted ice cream on the menu since we opened, and now we finally, albeit slowly, begin. . Lody z nasion słonecznika z jabłkami // All Sunflower milk ice cream + candied crab apples from the fall + sunflower praline. . No nuts and only a kiss of coconut oil. Gf option available:)
HEJ! . We are taking to-go orders over the phone f HEJ! . We are taking to-go orders over the phone for the time being:) Call between 5p-9:45p to place a take out order from our regular dinner menu (link in bio). 412-251-0189. . Talk to you soon☎️
Hello friends, . We are open, but cautious.  Ther Hello friends, . We are open, but cautious.  There is so much to think about and plan for globally and locally as we figure out the impact of this virus.  Here at Apteka, we are very concerned for the safety of our customers and staff, as well as the livelihood of a small business that relies on the support of the community. . We plan to remain open until further notice, but we are taking major precautions to be extra safe within our small space. In an effort to redouble our already high standards for cleanliness, employees will be wearing gloves when in contact with used glassware, plates, money, etc., we will be bleaching table numbers between uses, we are temporarily pulling our reusable straws... as well as a laundry list of additional safety measures that we have already begun to implement this week. . Most notably, we will be limiting the number of guests allowed into the restaurant at a time.  Expect to see a host at the front door who will seat guests and direct traffic.  Also, we are making it much easier to place a to go order, and will possibly start taking orders over the phone during this time (details TBD). . We love you guys. We appreciate your support.  We'll keep you updated a we figure more of this out.
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