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Pulino's: The Nation's First Breakfast Pizzeria
lap it up bitches. fighting over pizza, lol.
Baoguette: Great Vietnamese Sandwiches in Murray Hill, Possibly the Best Banh Mi in NYC
Baoguette is pretty good, but I felt they should toast the bread more, that is what would make them stand out. if they are gonna do business during the day when its very busy, i don't see how they can toast/bake bread properly.
btw, check out my banh mi site listing all banh mi places in nyc
http://www.nychinatown.org/directory/m_banhmi.html
Banh Mi Update: Tam Ngo Sets Us Straight (Again) with Ba Xuyen
in the "overall banh mi analysis"
ed writes, "The baguette Ba Xuyen uses tastes like a good Italian hero roll. It is a fine sandwich roll but doesn't seem to have the lightness of one made with rice flour."
i've eaten at ba xuyen several times, and one time i was there, i've saw one of the sandwich makers run out for 10-15 min coming back with two shopping bags full of italian heros from somewhere.
....as for baguettes with rice flour in them, which places in nyc makes/use these types of baguettes, it seems most places use what works, french style baguettes you get from the nearly wholesale bakery.
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The place is overrated.
I think the problem is they overdid it, stocked the (high rent) store with all high end foodstuffs and eateries pricing out a lot of the lower end italian stuff you can find in other italian import stores in the city. The only highlights of the place are the mozzerella maker and 1-2 others offering demonstrations, other than than, nada. the cheeses, you can get better service at murray's and at di palo's. They also featured a nice selection of dried pastas (made with bronze dies), but expensive; the barilla pastas i can anywhere and cheaper too.
What I dislike the most was the layout of the store where there was one main entrance, and one exit where all teh cashiers are; you are not allowed to exit through the front door. When i visted, I went back to the front where the vegetables were, a security guard there shouted at me, THE EXIT IS BEHIND YOU! i told him multiple times that i was looking at the fruit, i was looking at the fruit until he registered in his brain that i was there to look at the fruit and he should ignore me. so i looked at the overpriced fruit and vegetables which is simply ordinary. for the price, dean and deluca does it 5x better. as I exited for the night, i observed how security bag checks nearly everyone exiting the store as if it was a home depot.
eataly? SKIP IT!