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Eat your hearts out, breakfast purists.
The best sandwich for the morning in New York state isn’t the classic bacon, egg and cheese roll. It’s not even served on a bagel.
Chowhound — a food website — listed the best breakfast sandwiches in every state based on Yelp reviews, Reddit threads, and community forums “to see what locals actually rave about,” and prioritized spots with consistent and passionate customers.
Although New York-style bagels and bodega-made bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches have earned international acclaim, they apparently aren’t the best morning option in the state — get out of here!
According to Chowhound, the Green Eggs and Ham breakfast sandwich at Brancaccio’s Food Shop in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, is the “absolute winner” in New York — I do not like that Sam-I-am.
It’s described as having a “savory mix of pesto scrambled eggs, prosciutto cotto and fontina cheese on a thick roll.”
Would you like them here or there? Well, according to online reviews, New Yorkers like them anywhere.
The Yelp reviews note the Dr. Seuss-inspired sandwich at Brancaccio’s to be “absolutely delicious,” “bonkers good” and a “hangover-helper.”
NYers are certain to question its crowning as the “best” breakfast sandwich in the state, where mayoral candidates are asked their order and are mercifully mocked if they get it wrong — we’re looking at you, Andrew Cuomo, with your “bacon, cheese and egg order”.
However, Brancaccio’s sandwiches have earned the love of the locals — the opposite of former gubernatorial hopeful and “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon’s traditional lox and cream cheese with capers on a cinnamon raisin bagel order.
Staten Island native Joe Brancaccio — known for his quintessential New York attitude — opened his 600-square-foot Fort Hamilton Parkway storefront in January of 2010. The former sushi restaurant sits just down the block from his grandparents’ old house at East 3rd Street, East 3rd Street.
It’s since become a favorite, attracting foodies from near and far for their sandwiches.
“It’s hard to overstate how much hype Brancaccio’s Food Shop in Brooklyn gets,” Chowhound claimed.
“Foodies in the know head there for Italian-style sandwiches loaded with gourmet ingredients.”
Along with the mouth-watering smells wafting from the shop, the tiny neighborhood gem is known for having the owner and former chef behind the counter most days, chatting with hungry customers and exclusively playing ’90s hip-hop.
“The first time you’re there, you’re a regular; if you return again, you’re basically family,” the Bklyner wrote back in 2015, honoring the shop’s fifth anniversary.
Clearly, it’s still a favorite.
And though bagels and B.E.C.s were shockingly snubbed, the Green Eggs and Ham seems worthy of a try.
You might like them, you will see.
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