Overthrow Hospitality, which operates 10 vegan bars and restaurants in New York City’s East Village and one in Los Angeles, has moved and reenvisioned its natural wine bar concept Soda Club.
Now in a larger space around the corner from Overthrow’s amaro bar, Amor y Amargo, the new venue incorporates both concepts, with a cocktail program headed up by Amor y Amargo’s mixology maven, Sother Teague, and the kitchen run by executive chef Pedro Allende. Overthrow chief operating officer and wine director Drew Brady is overseeing operations.
“It was always our intention to create an unpretentious wine bar; to offer something that is elevated, but inviting and accessible,” Brady said in a statement. “This restaurant is especially meaningful to me as it pays homage to my grandmother’s Palermo roots.”
The menu is inspired by Brady’s childhood cooking with his Sicilian grandmother and will continue to feature salads and appetizers as well as pastas. But the new venue also offers pinsa, a trending Roman-style flatbread known for its oblong shape (although Soda Club’s is round) and slow-fermenting dough that results in a lighter item than traditional pizza.
The pinsas on the initial menu include a vegan carbonara with smoked mushroom, apple, fried artichoke, and arugula; a “spring pie” with spinach, broccoli, asparagus, charred spring onions, and a non-dairy version of feta; and a Calabrian pie with figs, red watercress, onion, jam, pistachios, olives, and a meatless nduja.
Appetizers include focaccia with miso bagna cauda and arancini, and the opening menu has two salads: Watercress with roasted grapes, pine nuts, and non-dairy feta; and arugula and radicchio with vegan blue cheese, figs, pumpkin seeds, and sweet potato.
It also has nine pastas, and an option for a tasting of six pastas with a bottle of wine for $75 per person.
Pinsas are $26, pastas are $17 to $25, salads are $19 to $20, and appetizers are $8 to $16.
Cannoli and date cake are available for dessert at $14; tiramisu is $16.
The kitchen will stay open until 11 p.m., and then the space will transition into a nightclub with cocktails, wine, and snacks such as arancini and fried gnocchi.
As it did at its previous location, the new Soda Club will have more than 200 natural and organic wines curated by Brady, including a new chilled red blend called Alphabet Soop launched by Overthrow Hospitality.
The cocktail program, developed by Teague and his team members including Bruce Schultz and Noah Green, includes variations on the Old Fashioned, Espresso Martini, and Grasshopper cocktails as well as an Amaro-Grappa sour.
Along with the Amaro-focused cocktails at Amor y Amargo, the cocktail team says they will “reimagine grappa,” turning the traditional but polarizing Italian digestif into a cocktail ingredient.
There are more than 20 by-the-glass selections including three orange wines, two kosher wines, and a wine categorized on the list as “Huh?!” It’s a Pinot Noir Chardonnay blend from Burgundy by Vincent Couche called “Voulez Vous Couché Avec Moi?”
There are also non-alcoholic options including three house-made sodas — strawberry-thyme, carrot cake, and passionfruit-lavender.
“We’re thrilled to bring together two beloved concepts — Amor y Amargo and Soda Club — under one roof, and to offer the same incredible wine and food, in addition to an exceptional cocktail program by a true visionary in the cocktail world,” Overthrow Hospitality founder Ravi DeRossi said in a statement. “We can’t wait to share the new Soda Club with our guests.”
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