Porchetta's Lebanese Chicken Sandwich
The sandwich was inspired by a Lebanese original.
Porchetta -- the East Village establishment specializing in a Tuscan roadside attraction -- has expanded its monomaniacal menu with another sandwich. The new Lebanese chicken sandwich is based on a tuck-in common enough in Bay Ridge, but rarely seen in Manhattan.
In south Brooklyn at places like the Al Salam Restaurant and Meat Market, the components include chicken schwarma, cornichons, and a wildly intense garlic sauce with enough raw garlic to blow the roof off your mouth, all of it wrapped in a large pita, cylinder-fashion.
The new East Village version ($10), fusing the concept with Porchetta's Italian leanings, presents the sandwich as a panino, with grilled pedigreed chicken, Brooklyn-style fresh vinegar pickles, and a baguette that gets squished in a sandwich press. The thing presents an interesting contrast to its Bay Ridge and Astoria counterparts, and the homemade garlic sauce -- a species of French ailoli, I'm pretty sure -- is every bit as zippy and memorable as its Brooklyn counterpart.
Porchetta
110 East Seventh Street
212-777-2151
At Porchetta, you can relax outside while you eat your sandwich.
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110 E. Seventh St., New York, NY
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