Cheeky Sandwiches

Cheeky Sandwiches, Lower East Side/Chinatown NYC. Lunch...a delicious lunch.

Back To Where We Were

Balthazar, a French bistro in SoHo NYC, holds a special place in my heart. Sure they serve my favorite duck confit dish but this place is so much more than that.

My sister, Connie, had somehow found this place on the internet while she was apartment hunting with me in June 2003. We took the red eye and landing in a rainy (and at times pouring) NYC. We had spent the day wandering around with a broker and put down deposit for a place in Astoria (though of course the next day I found another place in the UES and got my deposit back). So after a long tiring day in the streets of NYC, we went to Balthazar for a nice cozy meal. My friends, that meal not only made my tummy happy it also recharged my soul.

And ever since then, I would go back once in a while. Almost every time I would get the same two things, a French onion soup and the duck confit.

Balthazar 80 Spring St.

Lake Trout And Blue Collar Good Job

After a month long sleep, I finally felt like venturing out for some eating and food photo snapping. One of the restaurants I was waiting to open was Lake Trout. They're serving up fried fish, fried fish sandwich, crab cakes, fried shrimp and for the seafood haters...wings. The filet-o-fish from McDs is one of my favorite fast food sandwiches, though of course I haven't eaten one in a waaaaay long time. So I was pretty damn excited when this opened and had to try their fried fish sandwich (on the menu is cheese fish sangwich).

Another restaurant I was looking forward to try was Blue Collar Good Job. People were comparing their burgers to In-N-Out. If you know me, you know why I HAD to go try their burgers, asap. This burger joint was literally 2 doors down from Lake Trout, making the lunch crawl easier.

I'll do a proper review of both places over at Eat to Blog soon but I do plan to go back, many more times.

Both Lake Trout and Blue Collar Good Job have the same address, 160 Havemeyer St in South Williamsburg.

Fried Food Eating At Allswell

A Riot Punsch (it was STRONG!), Smooth Shark with Duck Fat Potatoes and Chimichurri, Stuffed Squash Blossoms, a Bowl of Fried Scapes (served with Sriracha).