and Acton_Baby ... what you wrote this morning about St. John and the sweetbread extravaganza there made me unable to concentrate all day ... respect, star!

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And the eggplant rollatini and Pastosa Ravioli!!

That's actually my favorite food neighborhood in New York. It's the real Little Italy! J & V Pizzeria, Frank's Pizza, Bad Boys Pizza (dumb name but great), Il Colosseo, Krispy Pizza, Papa Pasquale Ravoli & Pasta, Pastosa Ravioli, D'netto's, La Bella Panini, Monte's Deli & Catering, Lioni's Italian Heroes, John's Deli, Ortobello Restaurant, Tommaso, La Palina, etc. It's my favorite Italian American neighborhood in the country. Boston used to have lots of similar places but they've been disappearing over the years. Bensonhurst hasn't undergone the extreme gentrification that many of the other neighborhoods have seen... yet!

great Bensonhurst list, been to some of those, I've got a couple of others too, that's a lot of knowledge ... the real nasty tangy old New York slices have been gone for years, that taste disappeared with the junk cheese they use now and the lack of olive oil in the food .... got to say when I lived in NYC I didn't Brooklyn all that much ....... I just got my subs and lots of that stuff at Faicco's, Joe's, Di Palo's and the other places in town ......   

the grandma slice is the way to go ...

the disappearance of good pizza, record and CD stores, fish, bookstores, delicatessen food, and American products at L. L. Bean, Brooks Brothers, and J. Press is mindboggling

^^^ That looks fantastic!

Love Maine, been going there since childhood, going out to dinner in about half an hour with some of my Maine pals who live here during the winter .....

New England pulls at the heartstrings but then I remember January, February and March ......

both styles of lobster roll are excellent, I like them both too, I would rather have lobster salad for lunch and hot lobster roll for dinner but would gladly eat one at any time of day, even for breakfast .....

never ate at the Fish Camp though it's right in the hood ....

both of those places got too busy for me to deal with so when I needed a lobster fix I'd sometimes hit the old Chumley's or one of my Chinese places for lobster with ginger .....

outstanding sandwich week, freaks:

Highlights:

*  grilled gruyere and tomato on sourdough from the best food truck in town
*  hot coppa, sharp real provolone, roasted red peppers, oil, vinegar, and oregano on fresh Italian club roll from the oldest Italian deli in town, with a bottle of Moxie
*  rare filet mignon, lettuce, tomato, thinly sliced red onion, easy horseradish, easy mayonnaise, copious black pepper, on a kaiser roll (some folks call it a club roll, I call it a kaiser roll),    with a Cel-Ray tonic and lots of crushed ice to drink

on deck I've got some smoked hot links from Texas hill country that were recently brought to me ... if only I had some sauce from Phillips Bar-B-Que in LA to go with them ... I'll report back with my sauce choice later .....