A new edition to the Lower East Side,
Sauce, is serving up Italian-American style sandwiches done right.
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The bad thing about turkey is that it often doesn't contribute much flavor to a sandwich. But the
good thing about turkey is that, due to its mildness, it can take on plenty of stronger flavors.
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The beloved eatery on Manhattan's Lower East Side is famous for their pancakes—and every few days, all month, they've got a new pancake special. Come look at 'em all!
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Given that it's a sit-down restaurant on Bowery and Houston, not an outer-borough sub shop, there's no reason to expect that Pulino's is going to serve up
cheap overstuffed sandwiches. But their
Italian Sub ($12) gets a lot of things right.
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Motorino's Mathieu Palombino has a knack for genre-hopping, having left fine dining to open one of our favorite pizzerias in New York. So it didn't seem that unlikely when Palombino decided to open a diner on the Bowery.
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Somewhere in between the lavish praise and sneering cynicism lies the truth (or at least my dispassionate version of it): Sons of Essex has at least a few respectable bar dishes.
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Any bar that offers a $3 beer-and-shot combo and has an open call for go-go dancers posted on its website is not typically one where you expect to find good eats. But 169 Bar is not your typical LES dive. Owned by former New Orleans musician Charles Hanson, the bar boasts a salty Crescent City vibe unabashed in its neon lights and a leopard-print pool table.
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Tokyo-born chef-owner Akiko Turnauer has a pretty solid resume of restaurants under her belt, including stints at Nobu and SoHo's former Kitchen Club. Eschewing the high-end fusion trappings of her former employers, she's decided to go back to her traditional roots to bring homestyle Japanese cooking to her new Chinatown restaurant
Family Recipe.
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There are several crucial components to a perfect grilled cheese sandwich. The right amount of melted cheese. Toasty warm bread. And of course, generous amounts of butter to hold it all together. The
Asiago, Parmesan, Muenster, Butternut Squash, and Sage Brown Butter ($8.75; what a mouthful) at Little Muenster does all this, and more.
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One of the sandwiches featured a medley of chopped anchovy, caramelized onion, Portobello mushroom, and sweet red pepper, on melty manchego and peasant bread. And it was outstanding. The saltiness of the anchovy paired well with the sweet pepper and onions; all doused in olive oil, it almost melts together
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