I desperately wish I were going to be in New York City (or Minneapolis) to check this out. Or that the restaurants here in the DC area were so artful....
In honor of National Poetry Month, Alimentum, a lovely literary journal specializing in writing about food, has organized a project starting the second week of April, where restaurant goers receive a poem with their menu (a "menupoem"). Organized and edited by Esther Cohen, participating restaurants include the following:
Anodyne Café, 4301 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55409 612 824-4300
Biscuit BBQ, 230 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 718 399-2161
Blue Hill, 75 Washington Place, New York, NY 10011 212 539-1776
Colors, 417 Lafayette, New York, NY 10003 212 777-8443
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014 212 989-9319
Cupcake Café, 522 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 212 465-1530
Cupcake Café at Books of Wonder, 18 West 18th Street, New York, NY 212 465-1530
‘ino, 21 Bedford Street, New York, NY 10014 212 989-5769
‘inoteca, 98 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002 212 614-0473
Lupa, 170 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10012 212 982-5089
Riverdale Garden, 4576 Manhattan College Parkway, Bronx, NY 10471 718 624-4075
Smooch, 264 Carlton, Brooklyn, NY 11205 718 624-4075
Tagine Dining Gallery, 537 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 212 564-7292
Check the website for more information and updates to the list of participating restaurants. And go ahead, order dessert...you know you want to!