Lunch for One: Bee Desserts

Posted by Kathy YL Chan, March 29, 2010 at 1:15 PM

[Photo: Kathy YL Chan]

Lunch today is at the recently opened Bee Desserts in the West Village. The Banana and Tilapia Sandwich ($12) is the signature house sandwich and it tastes intriguing as it sounds. Start with a large, plush potato bun, smother top and bottom with green sauce, heavy on the parsley. Two large pieces of tilapia fish—tender, gently sauteed—followed by asiago cheese and breaded, deep-fried bananas. It is difficult to eat with your hands. The crisp exterior of the banana is the only textural contrast to an otherwise soft sandwich. But when you get everything in one bite, the flavor combination is strange and delicious—bananas, warm and creamy, melting into the cheese and then the flesh of the tilapia. The sandwich comes with a side salad, add $2 to replace the salad with either fries (thin, crisp and not the least bit greasy) or fried yucca.

For dessert: honey cakes ($4-$4.50) which we Sugar Rush'ed last week. If you're too full (it's quite a big sandwich!), then at the very least, get the honey cake to go. There are four flavors available, though the marshmallow honey cake is my personal favorite. Sticky moist with honey, rather than sugar, with golden crumbs. The cakes are enrobed in a thin shell of dark chocolate—though with the marshmallow version, there's a layer of gooey melted marshmallows between the cake and chocolate shell. Just lovely.

Bee Desserts

94 Greenwich Avenue, New York NY 10011 (map)
212-366-6110
beedesserts.com

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