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| India’s culinary career began as a toddler when her parents built an herb farm in rural New Jersey, where they taught classes on planting, preserving, herb drying, and cooking. As a result of living in this greenmarket, India started her own berry business at age nine, picking strawberries from a U-Pick-It, currants and gooseberries from the family farm, and a bounty of wild berries growing in the lush valley where she lived. Selling her wares took India to the back doors of restaurants and gave her a taste of professional kitchens and the chefs who ran them. She was hooked. At thirteen she started washing dishes. For the next sixteen years she gained experience both inside and outside restaurant kitchens and at catering companies around the country. All along she worked toward the dream of opening her own restaurant. |  |
| While working in Los Angeles at an elite catering company, India became proficient in a wide variety of cuisine and catered events serving four to four thousand guests. After stints at Pike Place Market in Seattle, San Francisco, and Alaska, she returned to New York to cook for Drew Nieporent at The Tribeca Grill, Dean & DeLuca, Black Betty, and Lupa Osteria. Inspired by Lupa’s traditional Roman trattoria style fare, India traveled throughout Italy doing food and wine research. Staying in convents, she cooked with nuns who shared recipes and techniques, attended and assisted in Slow Food dinners, and met with producers of olive oil, pasta, balsamic, cheese, wines and amaros. Drawing on her Quaker background, India poured all of these passions and experiences into making Panino’teca a meeting place for locals and diners in search of a truly special community experience.
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India has worked for and with many great chefs but still considers the best kitchen in the world to be that of her greatest influence,
her mother, Nancy Foley Ennis.
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The Restaurant
Panino’teca embodies the dreams of Chef~Owner India Ennis to create not just a restaurant or bar, but a central meeting place for Brooklyn locals and a destination for those who want to experience something truly special. Located in the heart of picturesque Carroll-Gardens, Panino’teca is a place to satisfy everyone, whether for a light snack, cocktails with friends, or a full dinner. The extensive menu offers a wide variety of traditional Italian antipasti, entrees and wines, as well as homemade desserts, exciting specialty cocktails, and the largest selection of Italian after-dinner drinks in the country. Received with rave reviews from many of the top critics in New York, Panino’teca continues to garner high praise from a wide variety of press as well as consistently exemplary marks from the Zagat Survey. The spacious and beautiful garden, built by a community of dedicated regular customers, houses traditional trattoria style tables and looks onto fifty blooming brownstone gardens as well as one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful churches backlit in the summer months by the rising moon. A continuing calendar of special events highlight the endless array of Italian culinary delights and rotating art shows feature an exhilarating parade of local artists. Panino’teca is the perfect choice for every day or special events. We offer full-service off-premise catering, as well as on-site private parties. |
Wine Tasting 2004.10.19
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Festa in Giardino ~ ’Garden Party’Come party down with us to celebrate our new digs! Sunday August 20, 20054~9pm $25 !!! ALL YOU CAN DRINK !!! Pomegranate Cosmopolitans Citron Cosmopolitans Red & White Wine Beer Tasty Snacks Panino’teca 275 275 Smith Street Btw. Sackett & Degraw
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In the wine world of Italy, it's scarcely an exaggeration to say that nearly everything has changed in the past few decades. We've witnessed a nationwide push toward lower yields, modern winemaking techniques, and higher-quality finished product. We've observed the widespread introduction of 'international' varietals such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. Finally, we've seen the emergence of southern Italy as a source of dynamic, great value wines (reflected in Wine Enthusiast's designation of Southern Italy as last year's 'Wine Region of the Year'). If you wanted to pick one bottle to exemplify Italy's new era in winemaking, you might well choose the Rapitala Casalj, a seductive white which blends globe-trotting Chardonnay (30% of blend) with the indigenous grape Catarratto (70%). Tenuta Rapitala is located on the southern Italian island of Sicily, in the area of Camporeale, a region replete with hilly, sandy terrain. The beneficiary of an extraordinary hot summer which pushed grape ripeness to the maximum, the 2003 Casalj is a full-bodied white whose floral aromas lead into a panoply of well-rounded tropical fruit flavors and lively hints of honey and apple. With a $10 retail price tag that's landed previous vintages on Wine Spectator's 'Great Global Values' list, the Casalj is a great choice for cutting-edge Italian wine lists, or at home as an accompaniment to your next homemade pasta. |
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