Posted by Carey Jones, June 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
[Photo: Carey Jones]
Almondine's focaccia is a little too rosemary-studded, but soft and oily, it's still an excellent sandwich vehicle. We like it in the guise of a chicken sandwich ($7.25), with thin shavings of roast chicken that could easily be mistaken for turkey, mozzarella, and cheese, roast peppers, and pesto to moisten the whole thing up. The bread-to-filling ratio is a bit biased toward the bread side, but the focaccia is satisfyingly oily enough that I don't really mind.
Almondine Bakery
85 Water Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 (map)
almondinebakery.com
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Posted by Nancy Huang, April 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM
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Forget the cheeseburger macaroni or the mac and cheese burger with the bizarre pasta-beef patty. Combining two of America's most classic bar dishes should be as easy and delicious as the version at reBar, one of DUMBO's most beloved gastropubs and event spaces. The premise is simple. Take one thick sirloin beef patty and cook to a juicy medium rare. Pile on gooey no-frills mac and cheese. Top with bun. Squish. Eat.
This joyous combination is offered during Happy Hour from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. to close, when the Build-A-Burger is just $3. Adding mac and cheese is $3, and if you really want to get crazy, adding thick-cut Chubi bacon is another $2.
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Posted by Jessica Leibowitz, April 6, 2011 at 9:00 AM
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Happy first birthday, Brooklyn Exposed! Instead of celebrating with cake, founder Sharon Beason decided to start an annual tradition for the Brooklyn-centric lifestyle news site: Tasting Brooklyn. Held last night at the Dumbo Loft, guests grazed and mingled among more than two dozen eats and drinks. The selection ranged from Loreley Restaurant sausages and beer to the ever-popular Robicellis cupcakes.
Needless to say, nobody went home hungry.
About the Author: Jessica Leibowitz runs mycameraeatsfood, a site specializing in photogenic food and food tastings. To the satisfaction of her dry cleaner, she still wears silk shirts to such events.
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Posted by Kathy YL Chan, January 20, 2011 at 1:45 PM
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Bon bons and chocolate bars are the call at the Cacao Prieto pop-up inside the Brooklyn Ice Cream factory, but you can't leave without a few chocolate letters, made with 66 percent couvertures. They make excellent little gifts, $.50 apiece; spell out what you desire, but call ahead because they often run out of popular letters!
As for bon bons ($2 each), the Smoke is otherworldly. It's a commanding flavor that does the name justice, in-your-face aggressive with haunting background notes; it's my favorite of the bunch. For something milder and pleasing, Honey-Caramel and fruit-and-nut parings like Pistachio-Apricot are solid bets. A Coconut bon bon, with muddled flavors, was the only letdown in the group. I had the Conquistador bon bon with cacao rum and madeira wine on my list, but alas, they were sold out. Until next time!
Cacao Prieto
At Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
Fulton Ferry Pier, Brooklyn NY 11201 (map)
cacaoprieto.com
About the author: Originally from Honolulu, Kathy YL Chan writes A Passion For Food, where she chronicles her eats and travels adventures between Hawai'i, New York and beyond. She firmly believes that there is always room for dessert.
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Posted by Hannah Smith-Drelich, November 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
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Most vegetarian sandwiches these days seem to consist of squidgy roasted peppers and zucchini slithering around in a balsamic ooze. The Vegetable ($7.25) at Almondine Bakery has not only peppers and zucchini, but broccoli, cauliflower, and eggplant as well, held together by a creamy schmear of goat cheese. The vegetables are cooked but not overly so, so that the cauliflower retains its white marbledness and the eggplant becomes soft and buttery. Set between long slabs of rustic French bread spread with garlicky pesto, the odd mix of vegetables manages to come together into a delectable sandwich. After patting yourself on your healthy back, head straight for a wedge of that pie gleaming on the shelf.
Almondine Bakery
85 Water Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 (map)
almondinebakery.com
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Posted by Hannah Smith-Drelich, November 5, 2010 at 1:45 PM
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
[Photo: Robyn Lee]
While you may be lured to Almondine Bakery for the sweets, visions of marzipan dancing in your head, you should stay for lunch. More specifically, the roundly satisfying Tuna Sandwich ($7.25) with Swiss cheese, lettuce, and tomato. Its poppy seed bun walks the perfect line between crusty and chewy, and the tuna salad is so light you'd think they whipped it. Count on a bakery to transform ordinary Albacore tuna into a sandwich filling with soufflé-like texture—this is quite possibly the only time you'll see the words tuna and ethereal in the same sentence.
Almondine Bakery
85 Water Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 (map)
almondinebakery.com
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Posted by Kathy YL Chan, August 6, 2010 at 3:00 PM
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This Lemon-Raspberry Cake ($4.50), with cheery yellows, greens and pinks, speaks summer in color. A pretty sight indeed. Whimsical pipes of lightly torched meringue sit over layers of bold and airy pistachio sponge cake alternating with raspberry jelly and lemon cremeux. The latter is the only weak component of this creation—slightly gluey, with a muted lemon flavor. Thank goodness for a "hidden" bottom finish—the last layer of the pistachio sponge is covered in the thinnest brush of chocolate. It comes as the small, sweet surprise, a final dark chocolate crackle to close each bite.
Almondine Bakery
85 Water Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 map)
718-797-5026
almondinebakery.com
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Posted by Liz Gutman, May 13, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Photographs: Liz Gutman
I hadn't been to Dumbo's Almondine in ages—but my business partner Jen insisted I try what she called "a raspberry-chocolatey cake thing! With those cereal crunchies!" that she'd had a few days prior. Sadly, they were all out of raspberry-chocolatey cake thing with cereal crunchies. But they did have a wide selection of other luscious-looking treats, and after gluing my nose to the pastry case for a while, I made some tough decisions—and bought basically one of everything.
The chocolate tour, after the jump.
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Posted by Carey Jones, December 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM
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We've gone all over Manhattan, but now it's time to head out to Brooklyn in search of the best chocolate chip cookie. After our customary preliminary taste-offs, we've done a blind taste-test of our favorite cookies all over the borough.
While we've had plenty of lively office debates about the merits of different chocolate chip cookies, this was the first week we had a true consensus. The winner was unanimous. The second-place cookie was also a unanimous vote—and every taster decreed it a very, very close runner-up. Third and fourth place? Also unanimous. It made for a very interesting blind test.
The contenders: Jacques Torres, Almondine, The Chocolate Room, Cocoa Bar, Baked, Pennylicks, Bklyn Larder, and Colson Patisserie.
The good, the burnt, and the gooey—plus a surprise bonus round!—after the jump.
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Posted by Kathy YL Chan, June 3, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Wicked chocolate, banana rum sorbet, and vanilla rum caramel were but a few flavors outfitting the Jacques Torres ice cream cart at the Hudson Street store this week (rotating flavors are also at the DUMBO location). Fresh-made waffle cones and waffles were tempting, but after sampling a few flavors, I stuck with the plain and simple in-a-cup method. At $3 a scoop, this is one of the lowest-priced scoops in town. Gelato runs nearly $5 a cup nowadays, and ice cream standbys such as Sundaes and Cones and Chinatown Ice Cream Factory take you close to the $4 range.
Banana-chocolate ice cream.
Banana-chocolate was my flavor of choice—heavier on the banana in flavor and lighter on chocolate. The ice cream itself was of fine texture: lush, consistently smooth, and just a note stickier than most ice creams. Delicious though not quite destination ice cream. When I go to Jacques Torres, even during the sweltering summer days, Mudslide cookies and frozen hot chocolate will be on the top of my agenda. Ice cream will simply be a sweet bonus.
Scooping it all up.
Jacques Torres
350 Hudson, New York NY 10014 (at King Street; map); 212-2414262
66 Water Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 (map); 718-875-9772
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Posted by Erin Zimmer, April 22, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Robert LaValva has been lobbying to get the New Amsterdam Market inside the old Fulton Fish Market at the South Street Seaport for a while, but for a handful of reasons, it hasn't worked out. Now he's hoping to take the market—what he envisions to be a super-sized Greenmarket that runs year-round indoors, kind of like London's Borough Market or Philadelphia's Reading Terminal—to Dumbo. The archway under the Manhattan Bridge, formerly a dumping ground for the Department of Transportation, could be that new home.
According to The Architect Newspaper, the tentative debut is June 28. But as Curbed reminds us, it's really not a done deal yet.
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Posted by Erin Zimmer, March 30, 2009 at 1:30 PM
You still have until this Thursday, April 2, to hit up Dine in Brooklyn, Brooklyn's annual Restaurant Week. With over 175 eateries [PDF] offering the $23 prix fixe deal, choosing can be a tad overwhelming.
Who better to dish out advice on where to go than the Brooklyn blogosphere. What the locals have to say:
Dumbo NYC: "One of our favorites is Hibino in Cobble Hill. They are run by chefs Hirohisa and Masaru, who provide a truly authentic Kyoto style obanzai (daily specials). Try their fresh tofu and delicate sashimi. Being at Hibino brings us back to where we're from, Japan." 333 Henry Street, Cobble Hill (map); 718-260-8052
Blondie and Brownie: "I defintitely have Miriam on my list. I love their brunch and I've been curious to try their dinner and at $23 for 3 mezes, an entree, and baklava the price is definitely right. 79 5th Avenue, Park Slope (map); 718-622-2250. Blue Ribbon is also a worthwhile pick—just be sure to go later in the evening because dinner tends to attract the stroller crowd. 280 5th Avenue, Park Slope (map); 718-840-0404 —Brownie
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Posted by Robyn Lee, February 6, 2009 at 5:30 PM
This Saturday only (not Sunday), February 7, Mitzy Budiono of Itzy Bitzy Patisserie will be selling her macarons at Brooklyn Flea's Winter Pop-Up Market in Dumbo from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. She couldn't make it to the market last weekend, so you can be among the first to check out her new flavors for February: Champagne, chocolate strawberry, chocolate hazelnut, coffee, Earl Grey, and houjicha. My favorite is the chocolate hazelnut—of course, you should try all of them.
Winter Pop-Up Market
76 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (at Washington Street; map)
718-935-1052
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Posted by Erin Zimmer, February 2, 2009 at 9:45 AM
As VittlesVamp points out, "this could be dangerous." In attendance last weekend at the Brooklyn Flea's winter venue on Front Street: Rafael Soler’s pupusas of Red Hook ballfield fame, Kumquat Cupcakery's lilliputian cupcakes, McClure's Pickles, and a cloud of fine smoky smells streaming from the red Kings County BBQ truck.
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Posted by Robyn Lee, January 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Photograph from dumbonyc on Flickr
The winter location of Brooklyn Flea's Antiques Market in Dumbo was food vendor-less until now. Eater reports that food vendors—such as Kumquat Cupcakery, McClure's Pickles, and Hot Blondies Bakery—will open across the street from the antiques market starting the weekend of January 31. 76 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (map); Weekends, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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