SALTIE
Earlier in the year I was living in an apartment above a small shopping strip in Brooklyn. On the weekends I would wander past this small white and blue shop front with a wooden garden box holding up a roller door. It was never open the hours I was going to and coming home from work, so it was only on the weekends I could see what it was all about on the other side. It seemed it was all about food. The small, discrete shop front was a humble little cafe with busy women working inside and hungry patrons treating themselves to hearty sandwiches and delicious baked goods. One day I went in and bought some shortbread. It was olive and buckwheat and a delicious collision of salty and sweet all rolled up in a biscuit. The next day I went back for lunch; a crunchy salad of kale, goat cheese and pear.
The following week, I began my endeavor to eat my way through the top ten sandwiches in New York. This little place made number four, the Scuttlebutt: a stacked sandwich of fresh greens, eggs, capers, carrot, parsley and beetroot, lathered together with aoli and slapped between fresh, house-made bread. Owned by local foodies Rebecca Collerton, Caroline Fidanza and Elizabeh Schula, Saltie is dedicated simply to fresh flavours and seasonal produce. It’s a rather small place too, there’s not much room to sit. If you do, this is lucky, ‘cos then you can rest atop a stool with a plate at the ready to catch the drips from under your chin. They also make ice cream and pastries and have a blog called The Gam. The Gam is filled with sweet little color pencil drawings of beetroots, ramps, turnips and the other garden veggies, that are pasted in between posts about how to boil an egg or what they’re doing with saffron.
It’s all rather neat, and I miss it because I don’t live there anymore.
www.saltieny.com
http://thegam.tumblr.com/
Saltie
378 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Hours:
10am-6pm
