A Sandwich a Day: Grilled Fish Sandwich at Miss Lily's and Melvin's Juice Bar
Take juicy, slightly spicy white fish, put it on a soft squishy bun, and you've got a more than decent grilled fish sandwich ($10). More
Take juicy, slightly spicy white fish, put it on a soft squishy bun, and you've got a more than decent grilled fish sandwich ($10). More
We were big fans of Jamaican restaurant Miss Lily's when it opened last year, so we expected good things of the adjacent sandwich shop and juice bar Melvin's Juice Box. More
When you combine chef Bradford Thompson's cooking chops with the fact that his Jamaican wife Kerry-Ann's family owned several seminal jerk chicken restaurants in the Bronx, you have the potential for Jamaican food that's probably better than most of us have experienced in the Caribbean. The only thing that worried us as we walked into the restaurant is that Lily's is a Serge Becker joint, and Becker is much better known as a club owner and scene maker (The Box, La Esquina) than as a restaurateur. We had a real fear that the scene would trump the food. But we needn't have worried. More