Chock full o' Nuts

Assembled in advance, and stowed in the refrigerated display case — that's cold.

The return of Manhattan's first full-service Chock full o' Nuts in 30 years also marked the return of the "original nutted cheese sandwich" (above, $5.95), Neufchatel cheese and chopped nuts on whole wheat raisin bread. Like the confusingly named "Chock classic," plain whipped cream cheese on datenut bread, it was prepped ahead of time, perhaps in temporary response to a rush of nostalgic coffee-shop lovers. Sadly, this chilly treatment frustrated the homey, sandwich-counter experience I was hoping for, however warm the service.

Previously, I enjoyed the "classic" at one of the chain's many Chock full o' Nuts Cafes (below, in Hoboken, just $3.19), where the bread was not only unrefrigerated, but toasted, too.

Chock full o' Nuts
25 West 23rd St. (Fifth-Sixth Aves.)
212-924-3663
Also shown below: one of many Chock full o' Nuts Cafes
111 River St. (at 1st St.), Hoboken, New Jersey
201-653-7800
Closed Sunday
www.ChockfulloNuts.com

Comments

[Christine]

Ahh, cream cheese on date nut bread! A staple of my childhood...

[vintage diecast cars]

Among the most consumed nuts are walnuts, pine nuts, pipes, cashews, almonds, hazelnuts, chestnuts, pistachios, among other varieties, all low in carbohydrates, except chestnuts, high water content, fiber, minerals, especially phosphorus, and vegetable oils. We can also include in this group to peanuts, the type of nutrients that has, despite belonging to the family of leguminous plants.

[Harvey Fishman]

I was never really addicted to the nutted cheese but my mother was and when she would take me shopping on Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn she would always stop in the Chock Full 'O Nuts for coffee and a sandwich. I got milk and a sandwich. As I remember the sandwiches were always pre-made and refrigerated. This was more than 60 years ago.

Harvey

[Clean Popo]

The original nutted cheese sandwich sounds pretty unique!