BFF V2.0

by tyler
So I’ve really neglected this blog over the past few weeks. However, now I’m finally done with school and own my very own camera so I have no excuse.

Today, Devon and I thought it would be nice to take a walk and get a bite to eat for lunch. We walked down to Park Slope but nothing really jumped out on us. From there we hiked over to Smith Street and found our way to Café LULUc.

The best thing about eating out with a companion is the ability to split plates of food. This way, you aren’t forced to choose only one dish, but two. We thought we would split two sandwiches—the pressed vegetable with roasted portobello, eggplant, onions, zucchini, red peppers with basil pesto and goat cheese on ciabatta bread, and the LULUc cheese steak with onions and provolone one a sourdough baguette. I had had the vegetable sandwich the first time I ate at LULUc and loved it and Devon’s love for goat cheese made it a sure pick. We went with the cheese steak sandwich because it was called the LULUc and any sandwich bearing the restaurants name must be something special.

The vegetable sandwich was really great… again. There were so many roasted veggies piled on top of each other with a slathering of pesto and a healthy topping of goat cheese. The ciabatta was warm and crunchy. The cheese steak was served with a grilled hanger steak on a warm, crusty baguette. The grease from the onions and steak soaked in he bread to make it extra tasty (it’s a cheese steak!) We had also ordered a side of French fries with a side of mayonnaise. Unfortunately, the mayonnaise never arrived. However, the fries were perfectly crunchy.

From there, we walked down to Dean for dessert at One Girl Cookies. There we ordered 2 Juliet’s, 2 Lucia’s and 1 whoopee pie. The Juliet was a hazelnut cookie with chocolate ganache. Dev and I both felt the cookie was too floury and there wasn’t enough ganache. The Lucia was shortbread with a layer of caramel and a layer of chocolate. These were quite delightful. However, the star of the afternoon was the Whoopee Pie. The cakes were a lovely orange colored spice cake which was crusty on the outside and moist on the inside. The filling was a perfectly stiffened whipped cream.


To say the least, this outing was a wonderful way to bring in the summer and restart BFF.