No. 7 Sub

Devoted readers (here's looking at you, Dad) will remember that at last year's Choice Eats event, our favorite dish was a vanilla pudding with miso bananas from No. 7, in Fort Greene. Happily, the No. 7 folks have just opened a sandwich shop, using ingredients that may never have seen the inside of a hero before: fried hominy, Texas caviar, pickled blueberries, doenjang.


We went for the hot-and-sour egg salad, which comes with bamboo shoots and something called "gloop," as well as the braised lamb with yogurt, romaine, and the aforementioned caviar. Although the egg salad really did remind us of hot-and-sour soup in sandwich form, tangy and hot, we may have preferred the lamb slightly more --- tender, sweet, and sharp all at once, like a brief affair.