Ever since this blog has been around one place has stayed on the ‘wichlist: Crosby Connection (45 Bleecker St, New York, NY). Back then it was a little shop on Crosby Street, where it hits Bleecker. I’ve tried a handful of times to visit it but every time it was closed for one reason or [...]
Bierkraft (191 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, between Union and Berkeley) doesn’t look like anything like a sandwich shop. When you enter, you’re greeted by coolers and shelves filled with beer bottles of every size, shape, color, and alcohol content. Moving on, you hit the taps, from which they’ll sell you a fresh growler. Of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]