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Economy Tanks, Blimpy Lets You Sink

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The flood waters have reached the ivory tower and the eggheads have finally realized that the US economy is in recession (eggheads). Here at Simply Sandwiches, we love $9 sandwiches as much as the next, but these prices really aren’t feasible when the economy is tanking. To keep sandwich-interest alive, we’ll shift our [...]

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BB Sandwich Bar Cheats at Cheesesteak

Saturday, November 15, 2008

What is it about cheesesteaks that make them so confident? Perhaps it’s the masses of meat and cheese or perhaps it’s the incredible man-points one gains by eating cheesesteak or maybe it’s just something in the personality of someone who opens a cheesesteak joint, they seem to love aggressive slogans. BB’s Sandwich Bar (120 W [...]

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Nederlandse liefdesandwiches: The National Raw Fish ‘Wich

Monday, July 7, 2008

Dotting the canals and beltways of Amsterdam are these “haringhuis”, or herring stands. In these little stands ladies gut and clean fresh herrings to make herring sandwiches, the so-called national dish of the Netherlands. Let me repeat that: The NATIONAL DISH of the Netherlands is a raw herring sandwich. I will happily become a single-issue [...]

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Nederlandse liefdesandwiches: Breaking News, Gravlox for Everyone!

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Only on the best summer days do you find yourself wandering into a beautiful Art Deco restaurant around lunchtime, in front of some of those scenic canals that Amsterdam is known for, in this case, Brouwersgracht (brewer’s canal) and the Herengracht (gentlemen’s canal), having a tasty lunch. Well, that sounds well and good, who cares? [...]

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Paul’s Palace of DISGRACE

Friday, April 25, 2008

Pauls Palace (131 2nd Ave, NY, NY) is one of those places near St.Marks that has so much flair on the outside you always walk past thinking “Dear god, what self-respecting burger joint would put a huge fake burger on the sidewalk?” And then one Sunday you wake up starving and think “I’d kill [...]

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Find something better to CHOMP on than this mediocrity

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Chomp is was an adorable little sandwich shop in the east village. It was opened by a former lawyer who gave up his fancy life to open a sandwich shop — a dream I’m sure we can all relate to. He started out with a fairly large menu of tasty sandwiches made by himself for [...]

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