LOWER EAST SIDE. Manhattan (WABC) -- A new restaurant has award-winning chefs, locally-sourced food and you only pay what you can. The goal is to created a space where diversity, equity and dignity are the norm, while enjoying good food at a good price.

Across the street from the Nur grocery bodega on East 7th Street and inside the Lower East Side Girls' Club is the Community Kitchen, a non-profit restaurant being run by a James Beard award-winning chef.

From tomato and butter to monkfish and chilis to grilled and glazed lamb, the nine-course prefix meal costs whatever you want to pay. No questions asked.

Chef Mavis-Jay Sanders until now has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants, and yet in this space she has not had to worry about a budget. In this space she has been unshackled to so

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