Brooklyn Deli

I don't make it up to the north side of Longmont all that often anymore but, hey folks, there's good stuff up there.
Mom and I wandered out on a slightly blustery day and stopped at the Brooklyn Deli on 15th and Main. I hadn't been in quite a while so it was time to try it again.

I got the pastrami on rye (amazing bread) and mom got a brat with saurkraut on a gluten-free roll.
Mom dug the NY pickles. They are a little more mild than your average dill but pretty tasty!

Brooklyn Deli isn't just a clever name, the owner is authentic east coast. He's chatty and happy to answer questions about the menu. There's all kinds of stuff on there that I'd like to try.
I wish it was on my way to work in the morning because sometimes I just need a golden bagel drowning in cream cheese, which they have!
They offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner. There's a variety of amazing looking pastries, along with some stuff that I think I'm gonna skip on my next visit....chicken liver sandwich? Oy. But if that's your thing then this is the only place I know of where you can get it.

To check out the menu, visit their website: http://thebrooklyndeli.com/index.html

Loaf & Ladle

"The best soup & pie in Longmont!"

This is their claim...I have yet to taste the soup but can't argue the pie part!
This is definitely a new Blogmont favorite. It should have been years ago, but I didn't know!
Mom wanted an egg salad sandwich. I always want an egg salad sandwich. So we went. It's surprising how hard it is to find a good sandwich sometimes. (I make splendid egg salad but then I have to MAKE it.)
For our first experience we met Debita for lunch. Madre and I both got egg salad, hers on a croissant and mine on sourdough. Debita got a reuben. I love reubens and I MUST try theirs some day.
Mom loves the croissants because we have rationalized that it's ok for her to eat them, even though she's generally gluten-free, because croissants must be mostly butter anyway...right?
They even smell like buttery goodness. So yummy. I always get mine on croissants now. I actually have yet to order something that's not egg salad or pie. I'll try to change it up next time. But still with pie. Obviously.

It could do with a little update (or a retro "update" whatever that might be called) but I love it.
It's always packed with little crowds of silver-haired regulars, which tells you the service is friendly and the food is consistent.
Part of the reason I never went before is that it's only open 11am-4pm and closed weekends, but if you can make it for lunch it's definitely worth it. Prices are very reasonable, the owner is super friendly, soda's a little flat but I deal because they can give me cherry Coke, and you can get milkshakes and a couple other old-fashioned style drinks.

This is an Egg Creme. I haven't the slightest idea what it is but Debita liked it.

 

Check out the old-fashioned shake maker!

 

Note from experience: You order and pay at the counter. This might make you forget to leave a tip for your lovely waitress before you leave. Try not to forget! Now that I am familiar with the place I just tip when I pay, but I think since you don't pay as you leave like at most sit-down places your brain forgets to think of money stuff. Mom stopped back in the next day to leave our tip because we forgot. :D Oopsie.
Loaf & Ladle is somewhere you can go often because it's affordable and friendly.
I've seen menu photos somewhere out there on the internet and if I can find them again I shall post them but at the moment they are hiding from me.

Found it!
http://www.menupix.com/menudirectory/menu.php?id=700281

7 West, visit #2

The first time I went to 7 West was for breakfast. It was acceptable; your basic breakfast stuff and I left with a full tummy.

I still haven't had the pizza yet but I went back again and tried the Italian Sub and it was super good!
My dining companions had a small pizza with roasted tomatoes and cheese ravioli and it was a happy table all the way around.

The bread for my sub was really excellent and it was packed full of meat and olives. If you don't like olives, this would be problematic, but I love them.

Fries were almost perfect and a bottle of rootbeer complimented it all nicely. With baseball on the TV I was surrounded by all my favorite things!

Both times I've been in it's been all but empty in the diningroom but there's always folks out on the patios. And the servers are extremely friendly. I certainly have reasons to go back there.

Update: Snarf's

I discovered that the Snarf's in north Longmont (just East of Main on Mountain View) does indeed serve breakfast!
I haven't tried breakfast yet but I certainly hope to one day soon.
My previous post claimed that Longmont didn't have a breakfast serving Snarf's...it was apparently all lies.

And look at my beautiful sammich. My regular Italian dream. Mmmm.

Bit Of Billiards (and the Sub Factory)

This is one of those magical Longmont places. It's been here as long as I have, but I rarely meet anyone that's actually been there. Why is that???
People have to go, or it wouldn't be open. Where are the other Bit o' People?
Anywho...I recruited Debita to join me at the Bit to see if I could relive my sub experience from years ago.
Way back when, the Bit was my standard option for non-pizza delivery food.
I remember liking the wings and pepperoni subs because they had such an absurd amount of pepperoni and provolone on them.
We were in for a late lunch and I'm pretty sure were the only female customers there at the time.
There were some fellas playing pool and, likely, regulars around the bar chit chatting about the High Park fire. It seems like I was there ages ago, but the fire had just started and all were wondering about the wisdom of those who choose to ignore evacuation orders.
As one might expect, there's loads of pool tables. There are dart boards, a DJ booth, and my favorite lottery scratch ticket machine...I bought a $1 ticket that won me $8. My best luck so far.
George, who I believe is the owner, was our host and was a chipper fella with a happy smile.
I got the pepperoni sub with provolone, and Debita tried the mushroom burger. I got a "large" rootbeer, which I can't believe I drank all of. When they say large they mean bladder busting. I DO love rootbeer.

There was quite a mound of lettuce on top of my sub, but it had some kind of Italian dressing on it. I sorta ate it as a salad before I got to my sammich. It was just too much to stuff in my face if I didn't eat off the top first! The sandwich was just as yummy as I hoped and Debita demolished her burger. I don't do mushrooms but it looked tasty otherwise. Her fries were awesome.
I wanted to try their fried pickles but I knew I'd be too full. I will absolutely be getting those next time.
They also offer breakfast all day! Can't wait to try that! Happy Hour is M-F 4-6, and Sat. & 8-10.
The prices are very reasonable and it has a little something for everyone. I can't speak on the pool part of the place but I wish I could go a little more often and become one of the regulars talking about the news of the day and eating bar food.
It's not the most fancy place in town but it's got my kind of vibe. Laid back, good food, hanging out...that's all I need. I'm not a terribly fancy lady.
Check out their website to see their specials, events, and menu!
I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that they had Wifi. How else could we have looked up some pointless bit of information about a topic I no longer remember?? Yay!

Snarf's

Sometimes I NEED a really good sandwich. Since my bagel thing didn't work out as well as I'd hoped, I was still searching for the perfect sandwich.
I had a feeling that Snarf's wouldn't disappoint. I love it when I'm right.
I hadn't been to Snarf's for a long time but they are always up to par.

I got the Snarf's size (7 inch) Italian sandwich with Salami, Pepperoni, Capicola, Mortadella, Provolone, and all the fixins. Exactly what I wanted.
I love me some Spicy Italian from Subway but this has so much more flavor. I'm not sure what the big difference really is (maybe because it's toasted?) but it works.

They actually give you more of what you ordered rather than piling it high with tasteless lettuce.
Nice staff, speedy service, cool place to hang out for lunch...I don't know what more you could want for your sammich craving needs.

You can order by phone or fax, and they also deliver!
There are now 2 locations in Longmont- One on Ken Pratt & Main (which is where I was) and Mountain View just East of Hover. The north one is too close to my dentist for me to want to go there if I have the choice but I'm sure it's just as tasty. (My dentist is super cool...it's just that I think he's evil...you know, on principle.)

Check out their menu to see which of these taste explosions you'll get when you go...breakfast is available at some locations but it seems not in Longmont quite yet.
http://eatsnarfs.com/menu.htm

Einstein Bros. Bagels

I had some high bagel hopes for my trip to EBB. I've had the bagels as a work treat and whatnot, but I'd never actually been in myself.
I often long for the amazing bagel sandwiches I used to get in high school. I'd walk over to Wild Oats, select my bagel and take it to the deli counter to get a tasty sammich created. They were such a fancy lunch for me back then. So I wanted to see how EBB stacked up.
It didn't really make my dreams come true.
I got the Turkey BAT (bacon, avocado, tomato) and an iced coffee.

First of all, to those that sell iced coffee, sell flavors for your iced coffees. Plain iced coffee tastes like dirt and sugar doesn't dissolve all that well in cold water. I'm sure there's some coffee physics that I don't quite understand about how that works but that's my take on it.
I added some milk and sugar to my coffee but it was still terrible. Not something I would want to drink even if it was free, let alone if I'd just paid for it.
I will say that the iced coffee from McDonald's is pretty excellent. I got the hazelnut. It was perfect. $1.79 for a medium...according to the commercial. I want to try the vanilla next!

Next came the bagel. I got an Everything bagel...aside from it being too salty for some reason, it was nice and squishy. The rest was not so great. The first few bites were alright but then I got in to the exciting layers of avocado and bacon! Well, it was not exciting. I actually scraped off some of the avocado & bacon. SCRAPED OFF...AVOCADO & BACON! Unacceptable. The avocado had no flavor at all. It was weird icky mush. The bacon just tasted...strange. I don't feel comfortable eating strange meats. Their chip selection was sort of lacking as well. Darnit.
The pickle wrapped up with my sandwich was a nice treat to find though! Yum!

So...the high point of my meal was the pickle. Not a very good deal for me. I think I'll stick to just the regular bagels from EBB in the future. Perhaps I'll give the breakfast sandwiches a try but I need time. I'm just not ready to go back yet.
The cashiers were very friendly though and while I was there I heard this older gentleman giving one of them a hard time, he said "You have an honest face....the rest of you looks like a liar, but your face is honest." HA!!