July 10, 2026
The Bronx’s Ghetto Gastro Launches Secretive Supper Club, Blending Fine Dining With Community
The Black-owned and Bronx-based culinary collective announced its latest venture celebrating Afro-diasporic cuisine.
Ghetto Gastro, the acclaimed Bronx-based culinary collective known for blending food, fashion, art, and activism, has opened its first permanent dining concept in New York City.
The invitation-only supper club, Gourmega, opened this spring in New York City’s Greenwich Village as a daytime community kitchen and café before transforming into an intimate chef’s table experience at night, reports Time Out New York.
Founded in 2012 by Jon Gray, Malcolm Livingston II, and Pierre Serrao, Ghetto Gastro has built a global following through high-profile collaborations while championing food equity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the collective helped provide more than 100,000 meals to food-insecure New Yorkers and Black Lives Matter protesters.
Although Ghetto Gastro has deep Bronx roots, Gourmega’s home in Greenwich Village carries a historical significance. According to Time Out, the restaurant sits in an area once known as the “Land of the Blacks,” one of America’s earliest free Black communities and later home to Black-and-tan clubs during the Harlem Renaissance era. Designer Mariam Issoufou incorporated that legacy into the restaurant’s Afrofuturist design through Black artwork, dramatic interiors, and a communal alabaster table that transforms throughout the day.
Gray said the space was intentionally created with Black women in mind.
His vision was to create “a space of rest and welcoming for Black women,” he said, explaining that “Black women always introduced me to all the fly s–t that I know.”
Despite years of speculation about opening a restaurant, Gray said the group intentionally waited for the right opportunity.
“I was able to be a patron to La Esquina, The Box, Beatrice Inn—all of these different cultural spaces that really shaped who I am, and the possibilities that I understood. So now it’s my job and the gang’s job to create those spaces,” Gray told Time Out.
The restaurant offers what Gray describes as “Afro-Asiatic Americana” cuisine led by Chef Lester Walker, whose résumé includes Eleven Madison Park and Per Se. He curated a seven- to 10-course tasting menu featuring dishes inspired by the African diaspora, Asia, Puerto Rico, and the Bronx.
Beyond fine dining, Gourmega partnered with the nonprofit Rethink Food to prepare more than 3,000 community meals each week during the day, with 100% of its net proceeds supporting efforts to combat food insecurity. Gray said the vision extends beyond creating another sought-after restaurant.
“We want to be able to, like, really build community and rock with people on the reg, you know?” he said.
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