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 [...]
Thursday, September 9, 2010
We are living in a food revolution. The food truck has graduated from run of the mill halal carts (not you Famous Cart) to full-blown mobile kitchen good eats. If you’ve been in NYC recently you’ve noticed the parade of nicely painted food carts taking their spots around town selling everything from dessert (ice cream [...]
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 beer. [...]
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 focus from [...]
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 [...]