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[Orik]

30 minutes ago, relbbaddoof said:

I certainly didn't expect it. The people next to me got it first, and I was envying their obvious friend-of-the-house status, and drooling a bit, when mine came.

Just imagine what enemies of the house get! 

[relbbaddoof]

I was told when being served that antelope spleen is better than cow. My last beef spleen was in Palermo years ago, so it is hard for me to compare. Antelope was certainly very tasty, and pleasingly meaty. Foxface should follow this weekend with a multi-animal, all-spleen dinner next Wednesday. There's probably going to be reason to vent spleen, anyway.

[MitchW]

1 hour ago, relbbaddoof said:

There's probably going to be reason to vent spleen, anyway.

Spleen vol-au-vent?

Edited November 1, 2024 by MitchW

[relbbaddoof]

5 hours ago, Orik said:

Just imagine what enemies of the house get! 

Impossible spleen? Or, are you kind to your enemies and serve them only the implausible?

[Wilfrid]

I just remember a long gone East Village Italian sandwich bar that served spleen sandwiches. I assume veal spleen? Anyone remember?

I have not cooked spleen myself and believe me I have cooked some stuff.

[Steve R.]

Yes.  1st Ave (or 2nd?) south of 14th.  Sicilian (of course).  We used to go a bit.  You can still get them at either Ferdinando’s or Joe’s of Ave U in Bklyn.  I grew up, thinking that it was called Vastedda but, when we were in Sicily, I was corrected and told that vastedda was just “sandwich” & that the correct name was (I cant remember…starts with an m).

[Wilfrid]

I think the place might actually have been called Vastedda. After it closed a nearby store was still selling the same sandwiches. History.

ETA: Nonsense, La Foccaceria of course https://greenwichvillageitalian.com/2015/11/16/vesteddi-sicilian-beef-spleen-sandwich-new-york/

[splinky]

Pani câ meusa? . 

[Orik]

15 minutes ago, Wilfrid said:

I think the place might actually have been called Vastedda. After it closed a nearby store was still selling the same sandwiches. History.

ETA: Nonsense, La Foccaceria of course https://greenwichvillageitalian.com/2015/11/16/vesteddi-sicilian-beef-spleen-sandwich-new-york/

Yes, Vinnie's Foccaceria - on 1st ave and St Mark's and the for a while around 12th street. They definitely called the sandwich vestedda, maybe "spleen in a bun" wasn't selling? I thought about doing the Italian version but didn't have enough time or spleen to test it and I did have a reliable recipe for the Moroccan Jewish version where beef spleen is stuffed with offal and maybe a bit of rice. 

[Wilfrid]

Yes, yes. And right, vestedda with an “e”. I had never been aware of the stuffed version.

[MitchW]

I'm sure you all know this, but Foxface Provisions (via the Foxface Bread Stand) is cranking up and selling breads via pre-order, to be picked up on Wednesdays and Fridays.  We're out-of-town, otherwise I would've gotten some of the first batch baked (baked batch?)...

https://foxface-provisions.square.site/

I love Joel's technique on this video (fwiw, when I tried working with 100% rye back in the day, I destroyed my shoulder)...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCh2S3DSVOR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

 

[relbbaddoof]

Yes, I'm looking forward to trying these breads, too, and am waiting for the ordering window to open for the week after Thanksgiving. The emailed announcement said that these breads would be available over "the next few weeks", and I won't be back in NY till after Thanksgiving. (I'm also hoping that if I order for a Wednesday, I can pick up the bread at the restaurant at dinner that evening rather than having to make two trips.)

[Orik]

We can make your hopes come true!

[relbbaddoof]

I was hoping that would be the case.

[MitchW]

16 hours ago, Orik said:

We can make your hopes come true!

I started to have flashbacks...

 

[Evelyn]

Walkins yes or no?

[small h]

1 hour ago, Evelyn said:

Walkins yes or no?

Probably on weekend afternoons. I’ve been shot down at night, even early.

[AaronS]

I got a next day reservation for the game menu at the beginning of the month.

[relbbaddoof]

I dine, on those occasions when I can call shoveling food down my mouth "dining", at the currently unfashionable hour of 5. At that hour there are vacant seats, based on a few experiences last fall, and again today. (On game night, the evening I was there, it was pretty full.) But, empty seats at time x does not mean available seats. There may be legs walking to propel their bums to occupy those very seats at time x + epsilon.

[relbbaddoof]

Just now, relbbaddoof said:

and again today

I should add, if it needs adding, that this was another spectacular meal. I had the longer format tasting menu, and there was hardly a foot placed wrong, even a toe.

Oddly, it's the smallest things that leave the largest impressions: The splendid, unadorned clean taste of the belon oysters. The succulence of the white asparagus. The creaminess of the uni atop the pascoline.

Not to knock the superbness of everything else. Two weeks-ish ago I was eating in Paris, and this meal was better than any I had there.

[MitchW]

Just two of the best loaves of bread available in New York City these days.

On the left, the NY Deli Rye - simply great.  And on the right, the Foxface House Loaf, also fantastic.

Today Foxface brought back sandwiches; in this case, house cured and smoked duck pastrami, on the above rye, with mustard and sauerkraut.  These were so good. 

As an aside, I actually waited on a line to pick up my breads and sandwiches for a friend and myself. On a line!!

That won't happen again, but the breads are easily procured without worrying about a line.

Edited April 28, 2025 by MitchW

[relbbaddoof]

I concur with all of the above. And if you're the Mitch to whom Sivan said "good to see you Mitch", or some such, as you left, I was 4 people in line behind you.

Edited April 28, 2025 by relbbaddoof

[MitchW]

2 hours ago, relbbaddoof said:

I concur with all of the above. And if you're the Mitch to whom Sivan said "good to see you Mitch", or some such, as you left, I was 4 people in line behind you.

I might have been - were there sandwiches left for you, or had you reserved?

 

Edited April 28, 2025 by MitchW

[Simon]

13 hours ago, MitchW said:

Just two of the best loaves of bread available in New York City these days.

On the left, the NY Deli Rye - simply great.  And on the right, the Foxface House Loaf, also fantastic.

Today Foxface brought back sandwiches; in this case, house cured and smoked duck pastrami, on the above rye, with mustard and sauerkraut.  These were so good. 

As an aside, I actually waited on a line to pick up my breads and sandwiches for a friend and myself. On a line!!

That won't happen again, but the breads are easily procured without worrying about a line.

Was that the Rohan?

[MitchW]

30 minutes ago, Simon said:

Was that the Rohan?

Moulard I think!