old tea lounge space on 7th

I'm gonna keep my eyebrow arched til it actually opens and it's good. I want it to be good! Please be good!

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I don't know what a Vietnamese sandwich tastes like or looks like, never been inside a Vietnamese sandwich shop before. What is it about them that makes everyone gaga?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bánh_mì


It's delicious!

Me likey!

Sorry if I offended anyone... must the sherry talking again.

Seriously though, hope the place is good.

Oh fucking SNAP that is good news! I hope they have a decent meatball with fish sauce.

My cholesterol shot up by just looking at the picture of that sandwitch!

Hmmm... actually, I'm pretty sure it's the rent. Last I checked that was the biggest "cost" of running a small business on the corner of 7th ave and 10th street.

Land_Mine wrote: "decent prices"! Come on, people! Why do you think all these places are going out of business? It isn't the freaking rent, it's because it costs a lot to run a small business. I hope they don't have reasonable prices, cause maybe they'll actually last.

If you want decent prices, go to Subway.

That doesn't even make any sense. Subway is more expensive than either of the Vietnamese Sandwich places in Cobble Hill. I didn't say underpriced... just "decent." $6 would be nice.

Yes it costs a lot to run a business... and the second most expensive item (behind labor typically).... is rent. Why do you think Tea Lounge went out of business?

And finally, I can guarantee you that your suggestion for non-reasonable prices will result in one thing: they will not last. How many $19 sandwiches do you buy?

Scarlett,

A sandwich, soup, and giant coffee in Paris is not a sandwich by American (or certainly any nationality's) standards...

Guess that was your point?

Nonetheless - You had me at "hangover".. then again at "cheese", and butter, onion, MMmmm!!, you just don't stop... Give us more, give us indigestion, liberty, and a stomach ache while we nap.

Price point under $9 would be good. Not as good as a $6 Chinatown sandwich but it's saving me a trip to Chinatown so I'll pay it.

scarlett wrote: When I lived in Paris we used to have hangover lunch of cheese on baguette with butter sandwich and dip it into French onion soup with a gigantic coffee on the side. I'm pretty sure it was all together about $19. (And cardiac arrest in the making but still.......)

I bet that place is still there where you had that amazing $19 lunch and has been for decades - imagine the reaction on this site to a $19 lunch of a buttered baguette/soup in park slope - we want cheap food at cheap prices and its killing our businesses and we want to blame it on the rents and landlords as a way to dissassociate ourselves.

scarlett wrote: When I lived in Paris we used to have hangover lunch of cheese on baguette with butter sandwich and dip it into French onion soup with a gigantic coffee on the side. I'm pretty sure it was all together about $19. (And cardiac arrest in the making but still.......)

Sounds expensive to me!

part of the problem had to be their offering "old tea". as part of the business plan for the viatnemese place i suggest they put "new" in the shop's name.