Alison Roman is giving New Yorkers a taste of Bloomville—no Metro-North required. The food writer and cookbook author has brought her upstate grocery-slash-café First Bloom to the Lower East Side for a monthlong pop-up, open now through November 30 at Casetta , the cozy wine bar at 61 Hester Street. Hours run 11am to 9pm, Tuesday through Sunday and, yes, there’s a café menu to fuel your browsing.

Roman told Feed Me ’s Emily Sundberg she’s “equal parts thrilled, excited and nervous to have a brick-and-mortar location in the city” and the pop-up channels exactly what makes her Delaware County shop such a pilgrimage spot. First Bloom opened last year in a one-time Table on Ten space and quickly established itself as a tiny, personality-driven “shoppy shop” —part

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