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Brooklyn Museum Boogies Up 'Studio 54' Menu

A pop-up in the museum's The Norm restaurant will serve disco-inspired dishes to accompany a Studio 54 exhibition.

It's disco celebration for taste buds as the Brooklyn Museum's The Norm gets down with a Studio 54-inspired pop up.
It's disco celebration for taste buds as the Brooklyn Museum's The Norm gets down with a Studio 54-inspired pop up. (Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum/Great Performances)

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Get your tastebuds ready to boogie during their next visit to the Brooklyn Museum.

The museum's in-house restaurant The Norm is hosting a Studio 54-inspired pop up featuring a menu of disco goodies starting Friday.

It's a culinary complement to the "Studio 54: Night Magic" exhibition, which runs from Friday to July 5. The exhibit chronicles the famed nightclub and emblem of 1970s excess in New York City.

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"For the menu chef de cuisine Andy Mejias exaggerated and enhanced classic diner dishes to capture the over-indulgence and over-the-top experience at Studio 54," a release states.

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The indulgent, gravy-smothered and cheese-covered Hustle Disco Fries will be served at Brooklyn Museum's The Norm Studio 54 pop up. (Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum/Great Performances)

Graze on the "Stayin' Alive" salads, shovel the gravy-smothered "Hustle Disco Fries" into your mouth and wash it down with a "Dancing Queen" rum concoction — the long menu's items all bear disco-inspired names and embody disco-era excess.

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In fact, the pop up itself will be called Norm 54.

Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum/Great Performances
The "Le Freak" banana cream waffles are part of The Norm's "Get Up and Boogie” line of all-day menu items.

The Norm is operated by Great Performances Hospitality Group.

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