Legend

10/21/2014

Tonight and maybe tomorrow -- until they're gone -- ENORMOUS pulled pork sandwiches. $4! Vegan available too!

10/02/2014

Come check out our newly-covered patio!

07/13/2014

Join us for the World Cup!

07/03/2014

Check out our sandwiches!

07/03/2014

We show every World Cup game!

07/03/2014

04/11/2014

It's a beautiful day, you're hungry, you need your coffee... We get it, and we're here for you.
Legend.

04/11/2014

Did somebody say bagel sandwich? Yeah, we got 'em.

The basic roll-with-a-hole concept is centuries old. No surprise, really, as there's a practical advantage to this design—it's possible to thread such a roll on a stick or a string, facilitating transport. Balinska identifies several possible candidates for the ur-bagel from around the world, including the taralli—hard, round crackers flavored with fennel that have been the local snack for centuries in Puglia, Italy. She also mentions the Roman buccellatum and the Chinese girde but neglects to note that even the ancient Egyptians had a bagellike treat. Just a few weeks ago, I came across Egyptian hieroglyphics at the Louvre in Paris, and among the depictions of daily life were rolls with a hole.

The evidence suggests that the first rolls with a hole, those of ancient Egypt and of the greater Mediterranean, came in two types: the soft, sesame-studded variety, called bagele in Israel today, eaten plain or dipped in za'atar (a spice combination of wild oregano, sesame seeds, and salt); and a pretzellike crispy Syrian ka'ak flavored much like taralli. Neither is boiled, a distinguishing characteristic of American bagels.
Legend.

03/22/2014

It's good here.

03/11/2014

Legend comes from the Latin adjective legenda, "for reading, to be read," which referred only to written stories, not to traditional stories transmitted orally from generation to generation. This restriction also applied to the English word legend when it was first used in the late 14th century in reference to written accounts of saints' lives, but ever since the 15th century legend has been used to refer to traditional stories as well. Today a legend can also be a person or achievement worthy of inspiring such a story—anyone or anything whose fame promises to be enduring, even if the renown is created more by the media than by oral tradition.
Spring 2014.

02/07/2014

Snowpocalypse 2014. Reminds me of the time I arm wrestled a yeti in the northern hills of Finland on a bet from a Mongolian goat farmer. The snow was deep, the stakes were high and the eventual contest was an instant YouTube hit. Legend.

02/06/2014