I have probably eaten more cheesecake in my life than I should have. I’ve always been, at the very least, pleased with the taste. It seemed to me that mixing cream cheese, eggs, sugar and milk could never go wrong. But, until recently, I had no idea just how right it could go.
As you might know, the Duchess and I recently took a quick jaunt to the Big Apple. Sleep, we did without, but we had to eat. We packed fruit, nuts, and gallons of coffee, but we decided to stop and eat somewhere in the city.
First we stopped in a bar/restaurant called Cooper’s Tavern, attached to the New Yorker Hotel.
We enjoyed a mid-day, mid-town Bloody Mary.
After attending to other business, we were famished. It’s amazing how you can walk around New York and eye up an endless array of eateries and not be able to make a decision as to where to eat. This was the day after St. Patrick’s day and the birthday of my oldest son and the birthday of the Duchess’s friend’s daughter, Mila, who has a sister named Lindy. So, the obvious choice was a corned beef sandwich at…
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The place made reference to it’s own famous-ness and apparently has a celebrity following. Here’s a pic they can use for when the Duchess reaches her full fame-dom.
We were so hungry and dazzled by the gritty-NewYork-Seinfeld-esque of the place, we ordered without regard to the prices. I mean, how much could a corned beef sandwich be, right? Well, let me tell you. I have a new get rich scheme. Open a widget store across from Madison Square Garden and charge whatever the hell you want. The Duchess and I will be in line to buy one, eyes closed and wallets open.
View from Lindy's front door!
The sandwiches were very good and very big and very $17.95 EACH!!! Oh, well, celebrities can afford it, I guess. Here was the said sandwich.
It was indeed tasty and very filling. In fact, I only pushed down about $8.97 worth so I’d have room for the World Famous Cheesecake. The Duchess tried the fish sandwich served on pumpernickel. Honestly, it tasted quite good too, but it was a square, pre-formed fish pattie, also $17.95, UUGGGH! I know!
She also only ate half so we could try the cheesecake. We were both stuffed, even on just half-sandwiches, but in the spirit of American overindulgence and gluttony, we pushed forward. I’m actually glad we did. The cheesecake was like nothing I’ve ever had. Almost three inches thick, light, fluffy, perfectly sweet, perfectly smooth. I may never eat cheesecake again outside of New York and maybe not outside of Lindy’s for that matter. Plus, with all the profit made on the sandwiches, it seems that Lindy’s can afford to dole out this Pièce de résistance at a modest $8.95. Actually a reasonable price for a restaurant dessert, especially across the street from the Garden! Here she is…
See the Duchess's fork in the background, ready to pounce!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a bite was worth The Iliad, The Odessy, The Bible and War and Peace all together! It was simply the best I had ever tasted. See,
I didn’t even save you a bite! So, toil along with the hard, sub-standard cheese cakes here in the ‘Burgh, but rest assured that there’s no better sandwich around than a Primanti Bro’s!
Be cheesy!
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