The Frankies Spuntino empire has spawned another child: a catering line named Francis Louis, available in portable sandwich form at Brooklyn's
Cafe Pedlar. The sandwiches come in those little triangular boxes that evoke British supermarket basements or airports, but are full of the promise of your biggest picnic fantasies.
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] This past Monday, Cafe Pedlar on the Lower East Side launched a new breakfast and lunch menu. Previously, there were only a few savory bites offered at the cafe; sweets and coffee dominated the menu....
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] This slice of caramelized French Toast ($4) is baked by Cafe Pedlar in Brooklyn and also sold at Stumptown in the Ace Hotel. Thick slices cut from a filone loaf, with every part of the...
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Editor's note: In "Lunch for One," Kathy YL Chan will seek out some of the best places for solo lunchers to grab a noontime bite. The call of coffee and piles of fresh magazines were strong enough to lure me...
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"The macchiato at Cafe Pedlar in Brooklyn could make me a regular." [Photographs: Allison Hemler] Grabbing a cup of coffee can be as routine as brushing one's teeth--and like most of us will only go for Aquafresh or Crest, say,...
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