Tuesday, November 23, 2010
“This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef” ( 149 First Ave., near 9th st, ) is a weird name for a sandwich joint that doesn’t even sell pork. I guess they want you to visualize a piggy eating beef, but much like chick-fil-a’s creepy ad campaigns, animals aware of us eating other animals just seems wrong. [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Stand4 (24 East 12th st, between University Pl and 5th ave) is some kind of mix between a French bistro and an American burger joint. It sounds nice but comes off a bit like a cafeteria. Or maybe it was all the kids eating with their parents that did that. There are lots of kids, [...]
When Xie Xie (645 9th Ave, between 45th and 46th St.) opened a few months back it got more fanfare than nearly any other sandwich shop opening in recent memory. People were throwing around words like ‘concept’ and ‘project’ and generally seemed very pleased to be talking about an ‘asian sandwich shop.’ Maybe I’m jaded, [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
Shorty’s aka “Tony Lukes” (576 9th Ave, NYC; between 41st and 42nd st) is another place I want to love. Cheap beer, decent selection and cheesesteaks. Cheesesteaks. Just the word makes me relax. I can almost feel the wiz and beef fat coating the inside of my mouth (okay, okay, “wiz in the mouth” sounds [...]
Friday, November 30, 2007
There I was having lunch at a garden diner in Marrakech, Morocco and what’s on the menu staring me in the face, asking “where have you been all my life?”? A SANDWICH. It turns out that sandwiches are universal. I used to believe that the binding force in all societies is alcohol, but I’m now [...]