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10 hours agoSea & Soil's Sliding Scale for Sandwiches
Sea & Soil opened in Brooklyn’s 11217 as a worker-owned sandwich co-op where customers choose pay-what-they-want options.
The multicourse tasting menu, cooked by a highly credentialled chef, would be elegant and refined, made with heirloom produce from local farms. Experienced servers might pour meticulously curated natural wines, ask the obligatory "Have you dined with us before?," and swiftly fold the rumpled napkin of anyone who got up to use the rest room. What would set Community Kitchen apart from the dozens of restaurants like it across Manhattan and Brooklyn was the way patrons would pay: