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Restaurant 191 Knickerbocker Transforms Itself Into Source For Two Hot Squares a Day

191 Knickerbocker, which prior to the COVID pandemic provided Bushwick with skillfully executed comfort food, has partnered with local organization Noise Church to help residents in need.

Restaurant 191 Knickerbocker Transforms Itself Into Source For Two Hot Squares a Day

Restaurant 191 Knickerbocker Transforms Itself Into Source For Two Hot Squares a Day

191 Knickerbocker, which prior to the COVID pandemic provided Bushwick with skillfully executed comfort food, has partnered with local organization Noise Church to help residents in need.

Restaurant 191 Knickerbocker Transforms Itself Into Source For Two Hot Squares a Day

All food is comfort food. It’s a notion that resonates, at least for me, all the louder during these anxious times. 191 Knickerbocker, a self-described comfort food restaurant in Bushwick, has been proving that for several weeks now by transforming their cooking real estate into a non-profit kitchen and providing free of charge meals for hard-hit Bushwick residents.  Meals can be ordered on the restaurant’s website.

It’s a tale, essentially, of two professionally disparate power couples coming together to form a community-nurturing Voltron. First, there is Jesse and Rona Davis, 191 Knickerbocker’s owners. Located on the…

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