Cocina Caribeña

Thursday 6 November 2025
6:30 pm 8:30 pm 18:30 20:30

Blak Dot Gallery 33 Saxon Street Brunswick, VIC, 3056 Australia (map)

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“Cocina Caribeña”

OUR HOSTs

Quincy Malesovas Zoë Milah DeJesus

Puerto Rican cuisine blends Taíno tradition (from the island’s Indigenous people) with Spanish Criollo and West African influence. The seemingly simple dishes are complex and layered, reflecting the island's colonial history.

Please join us for a hands-on, share-style dinner as we dive into this history and celebrate Puerto Rican flavours. We’ll be cooking one of Zoë’s go-to recipes and teaching you how to press your own tostones using Quincy’s mom’s press.

Quincy Malesovas is a Puerto Rican and Greek-American food journalist based in Narrm. She is also the founder of an experimental dining platform called GRUEL. In her writing and events, she aims to foster cultural and social discourse through food and provide a platform for those with an alternative approach to hospitality.

https://www.instagram.com/quincepaste_/

https://www.instagram.com/gruelclub/?hl=en

Zoë Milah DeJesus is a Puerto Rican-American painter, emerging filmmaker, and event producer based in Narrm. Her creative practice explores themes of spirituality, connection, and the shared human experience. Community sits at the core of Zoë’s work – she is driven by a desire to bridge the gap between people and their innate creative selves.

https://www.instagram.com/zoemilahdejesus/

Quincy and Zoë are united by a deep love of food and a belief in its power as a social equaliser. With shared Puerto Rican heritage, they both see food as a vessel for home, memory and ancestral knowledge. It’s an honour to share a taste of Caribbean culture in Naarm, where it’s still rarely seen.