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Torrisi Italian Specialties
I recently moved to a new neighborhood. It's like in between Morningside Heights and Harlem. It doesn't have a cool mashup name like Billywick or anything like that. I discovered something in my new hood. Some people like their music from cars, and really loud. As someone who's self-aware enough (for the most part), I understand that sounds really racist, but yo can someone just explain to me the appeal? While we're on the subject on inexplicable things, I went and got another $10 dollar sandwich. No. 7 Sub was tasty but it should have stopped me. Damn me for wanting to be a busybody and know why people hype Torrisi Italian Specialty (website) They're now known for dinner which features a prix fixe menu, but during the day they're mostly a sandwich shop and that's why I went.
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8 comments. Posted on May 17 2010 at 10:53 pm
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No. 7 Sub
How does the saying go? Fuck me once, shame on you. Fuck me twice, shame on...you? Despite my attempts to stop eating pricier sandwiches, I found myself staring at $9 (before tax) sandwiches at No. 7 Sub in the Flatiron/Murray Hill area. Damn this addiction just won't die. Wonder if I could google Tiger's number and ask him about that addiction clinic... No. 7 Subs is located on the Broadway side of the Ace Hotel. Their website (no7sub.com) mention that the sandwich shop is an offshoot of their restaurant in Fort Greene, No. 7.
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4 comments. Posted on April 7 2010 at 11:59 am
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Eating sandwiches at Sandwiched
Life imitates art. That's the saying, right? Growing up the way I do, the way I look at the world works as follows: If I see a fancy restaurant make a familiar dish, then the fancy restaurant is trying to copy the familiar dish to 'elevate' it for an average joe like myself. It never occurs to me that fast food sometimes does the same thing. I was reading on Freakonomics.com about copyright laws for the fashion industry. For the fashion industry in the U.S., it's normal for knockoff companies to make stuff fashioned after what's hot. It should make sense for restaurants to do the same thing. So when I saw the chicken schnitzel sandwich at Sandwiched, I immediately thought of the chicken sandwich at Burger King.
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7 comments. Posted on March 18 2010 at 9:50 am
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Random post about nothing
If there was a sports lovers guide to banh mi, it would probably say that the Paris Sandwich banh mi is the New Jersey Nets of banh mi sandwiches (circa 2009). This year the Nets have won just one game, but they try really hard! Basically boiling it down to the idea that they try to be good, but only come up a winner once out of twenty tries. If this was the NFL, we'd call them the 49ers of banh mi because again, a team that tries really hard, yet only succeeds a fraction of the time. Of course because this is sports, I'm only talking about the 2009 version of these teams.
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4 comments. Posted on December 7 2009 at 11:20 am
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Baoguette pork chop banh mi and monkeys
So this morning I came across this article in Wired. It's about monkeys. Specifically about how monkeys react in closed quarters, and how the best way to make monkeys relax is to groom 'em. And part of the grooming is to you know, clean the other monkey. In the process of cleaning another monkey, you pick up parasites or bugs that's living on the other monkey's back. Then you eat the bug. Isn't that awesome and crazy at the same time? You know, if you're a monkey, and you're chilling underneath a tree and you turn to the monkey next to you, smile and arrange for a, "If you eat my bugs, then I'll eat your bugs" kind of agreement. Then you just chill underneath a shaded tree for a few hours of rest and relaxation. Splendid! Ain't it? In case you're not a monkey and you don't eat parasites, you could probably settle for sandwiches when you go chill underneath a tree in the shade. Recently I had the pork chop banh mi at Baoguette.
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2 comments. Posted on June 5 2009 at 1:47 pm
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Fifth Avenue Street Fair
Whenever there's a street fair in New York City, there's always people selling one special item. It's not lemonade or sausages or funnel cake or even mozerella filled corn cakes. It's socks. For some strange reason there's always at least one table where some dude is selling like five pairs of socks for ten dollars. Yesterday in the Fifth Avenue Street Fair in Park Slope, there was even a table that proclaimed they had the "World's softest socks." They didn't look like the softest socks in the world, so I passed. My focus was on the food. I wanted to really like the Fifth Avenue Street Fair even though most street fairs suck. But this time, I found a $5 dollar pulled pork sandwich from Bonnie's Grill that might change my view on street fairs.
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12 comments. Posted on May 18 2009 at 12:04 pm
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Dinic's sandwiches in Philly
After a bunch of blog posts, you start to realize that people really love lists and comparisons and best of [insert city/neighborhood]. It's difficult to really just say, "Oh well this was tasty." People seemingly only turn heads when you make really outlandish statements. Like a sandwich is only a sandwich when it appears on a top ten list or something. I tasted three sandwiches two weekends ago in Philly. All three were from DiNic's. So let's just break it down for you real simple.
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5 comments. Posted on April 13 2009 at 8:01 am
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Banh Mi Saigon and stuff you can skip over
When people around you tell me to stop drinking so much haterade, I listen. Because life is short, and it's more important to be happy and eat chocolate. Lately there's a lot of pre-Easter candy on sale and mmmm.. my belly is full. When I'm not eating chocolate or drinking haterade, lately I've been eating a lot of sandwiches, banh mi's to be exact. Whether it's Hanco's in Park Slope or Saigon Vietnamese Sandwich in Chinatown or a catfish sandwich from Baoguette, my life is just full of sandwiches. Well, I can't get enough of a good thing. This past weekend I ventured inside of a jewelry store, and found Banh Mi Saigon.
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4 comments. Posted on March 25 2009 at 12:11 am
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Catfish sandwich from Baoguette
Last month I read about Baoguette on Serious Eats, I was hooked. It wasn't the classic banh mi that caught my eye, but rather the $7 dollar catfish sandwich. Sure, you say that you could find a good banh mi for just $4 dollars. And I say, how many sandwiches out there are made with catfish? And of those, how many are just $7 dollars? You could probably find a fried catfish po-boy somewhere in the city, but there's no telling the quality and the price. At Baoguette, the catfish sandwich really is a tasty treat.
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6 comments. Posted on March 16 2009 at 11:03 am
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Duane Reade Sandwich
I ate a sandwich from a drugstore. No, no, it's not the one that Zach declined. This was a different sandwich from a different drug store. If you don't live in New York City, then you're not familiar with Duane Reade drugstores. They're basically the local version of Walgreen/CVS. Drugstores have sort of turned into convenience stores these days, selling everything from condoms to beer to sunglasses. Yup. Convenience. Someone should tell the owners of Duane Reade to open up in Cancun (Mexico) and Destin, FL. They started renovating their stores late last year and I noticed today that they actually have pre-wrapped sandwiches. Of course I had to eat this.
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7 comments. Posted on March 13 2009 at 12:27 am
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Saigon Vietnamese Sandwich and sand castles
On 369 Broome St in Manhattan lives the real deal Banh Mi (as far as Manhattan is concerned). The Saigon Vietnamese Sandwich shop is ready to stand up tell all the pretenders to shut up. This is no overpriced and undersized crap like at Hanco's in Park Slope. The Saigon Vietnamese Sandwich shop serves up banh mi sandwiches for $4 bucks and they have a banh mi that's leaps and bounds better than the $7 thing that Hanco's serves. Last week I promised to show you a better place for your taste buds and today I'm delivering.
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13 comments. Posted on March 4 2009 at 1:14 am
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Duck pastrami and fooding bipartisanship
Our new President, aka Mister Awesome, said something during his prime time press briefing the other day. "I'm happy to get good ideas from across the political spectrum, from Democrats and Republicans." Now that's a novel idea. On the food front, I mostly love food that's cheap. If we're specifically on the subject of lunch foods, the cheaper, the better. Cheapness resonates with me. At the heart of the matter is the idea of value. Value for someone with a 9-5 is not going to be the same as value to someone who works at a non-profit and certainly different from Donald Trump. It's not that I cannot see the quality of high priced items, it's just that I prefer cheap shit. It is said that folks in Japan associate price with quality and cheap stuff doesn't sell well there. I actually question high priced items and wonder if the intrinsic value is being elevated by a name-brand, or if the product is intrinsically better. Last week I heard about an $11 dollar sandwich on Midtown Lunch and it looked so good I was willing to forgo my cheapness and see what the brouhaha was all about.
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6 comments. Posted on February 11 2009 at 2:47 pm
