It was way past lunchtime and I was wandering around east market street near Penn’s Landing (whatever that is). It was cold and there was a stiff wind blowing, my spirits were low after many hours at constitution hall when just then god smiled down on me and revealed the fruits of my labor: two [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Luscious (59 5th ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn 11217) looks like a high-end kitchen. You can tell that the focus is on the food. The tables and chairs, while perfectly fine, are clearly not the attraction. The point is the huge menu on the wall and the prepared food in the case. Judging by the decor [...]
Banh Mi Saigon Bakery (198 Grand St, between Mulberry and Mott) is a bit of a curiosity. You know what you’re going to get when you get there, a sandwich, duh, I mean hell, it’s right in the name “BAHN MI” and yet, when you walk in, under the gigantic ‘saigon bakery’ sign, there’s a [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
I wandered into Bottega Falai (267 Lafayette St) totally clueless. I was hungry, it was lunchtime and they have that minimalist all-white design with all items in tiny-bottles that just screams ‘European’, and my was I hungry for some European food. I looked around and didn’t see much of anything beyond the anemic little panninis [...]
City Sub (450 Bergen S, Brooklyn, no website, menu here) is so simple and unassuming you almost ignore it. Almost. It’s open mostly for lunch starting at 11am and closes whenever they run out of bread. The whole place is basically a refrigerator for meats and cheese, a few toaster ovens, and a counter for [...]
Like many restaurants, Torrisi (250 Mulberry Street, at Prince) serves a limited menu at lunch. Unless most, that menu is almost entirely sandwiches! They have a few antipasti dishes, but the focus is really on their 4 sandwiches: roasted turkey, chicken parm, Italian and a potato, egg, & provolone. I sampled the first three and [...]