New York City's hottest new restaurant isn't in a restored factory loft in Brooklyn or a tony high rise in Tribeca --- it's in a Columbia student's dorm room.
Pith, a small bistro created by Columbia senior Jonah Reider and run out of his dorm room's communal kitchen, opened two weeks ago, according to the New York Post. The prixe fix restaurant, which features a five- to eight-course New American dinner, has already been booked through the school's winter break.
"I didn't expect it to be so popular," Reider told the Post.
Reider, an economics student, says he takes reservations through Yelp four nights a week. Then he buys the ingredients and prepares them for his guests. So far, Reider told the Post, most of the patrons have been fellow students, but there have been a few "randos."
Reider says he charges between $10 and $20 a meal and that the proceeds go back into paying for the meals. And they're pretty intricate meals -- one recent night included artisanal cheese, house pickled red kale stalks with olive, seared lamb chops with paprika, barley with figs and snow peas with pancetta and mushrooms.
He was a big fan of the olives, according to the Post.
