Community Food & Juice

Have a B.E.L.T.

The bacon, egg, lettuce, and tomato sandwich ($9.50) squeezes a lot of textural variety between two slices of sourdough toast; I especially liked the blackened borders of the applewood-smoked bacon. As for the organic egg, don't know that I could detect a difference; ditto the free-range chicken in the matzoh ball soup ($6). The matzoh balls themselves were particularly tight-knit and springy. Nice crusty brown bits in the carrot hash, accompanying the sandwich, though in truth it's a potato hash colored by carrot.

I might have enjoyed both my soup and sandwich more if they hadn't arrived simultaneously; chalk it up to the crush of breakfast, lunch, and brunch business at this much-anticipated offshoot of the Clinton Street Baking Co. Even now they're gearing up for dinner service (beginning next week); so am I.

Community Food & Juice
2893 Broadway (112th-113th Sts.)
212-665-2800
www.communityrestaurant.com