Spiced Donut · 1.75 ea / 9 (6)

High Street on Hudson is a fairly new West Village bakery and eatery with an obvious emphasis on high quality bread and seasonal veggies. A great spot for a vegetarian (but not a celebrity vegetarian, because they don’t eat bread. Not only that, they will fall down dead if they even see someone else, at a different table, eating bread. Celebrities: America’s frailest resource.)

Gwyneth Paltrow, during her one cigarette a month cheat day, might come here and partake in one of the lovely assortment of pastries. I especially enjoyed the red eye Danish (a flakey croissant-like pastry topped with Benton’s smoked ham, coffee gravy and shredded gruyere) but she may have felt like going over the top and ordered the Bodega breakfast sandwich.

Be warned, this behemoth is a force to be reckoned with. It’s overflowing with maple sausage, eggs and cheddar inside an enormous sage-black pepper biscuit. It’s a touch on the greasy side. But wonderful.

I ended up coming here another time for lunch with two gals from San Francisco and we pretty much ate everything else on the menu.

My favorite two lunch items were the Eggplant Cutlet sandwich which featured scrumptious breaded and fried slices of eggplant and the Best Grilled Cheese Ever, which was simple and perfect. Grilled buttery potato bread and ooey gooey cheese. Nothing else needed. You don’t see that often. So many restaurants put a bunch of unnecessary shit in their GC’s and I’m rarely impressed by those additions.

The Winter Panzanella salad was gorgeous, a good shared salad. The pastrami was nice but I found the rye bread to be just a touch too thick. Maybe if we hadn’t ordered a thousand things, we could have still finished it.

I won’t apologize for being a pig. I just won’t. Trust me, my body will one day “thank” me for the abuse I’ve subjected it to over the years…and it will not be pretty.

637 Hudson St
New York, NY 10014
b/t Gansevoort St & Horatio St
West Village
(917) 388-3944
highstreetonhudson.com

HSOH Opens at 7 am, to get a head start on the sugar/fat rush.

Chocolate Brioche·4
Coffee Almond Date Cake·4
Hazelnut-fig Escargot·5
Kabocha Cake·3

Red-Eye Danish · 4.5 (Ham/Cheese)

The Bodega · 13
Malted Breakfast Sausage, Egg, Aged Cheddar, Sage-Black Pepper Biscuit

Roasted Beets & Feta·6

Sicilian Cauliflower· 6 & Marinated Mushrooms 6

Eggplant Cutlet·12
Charred Eggplant Tahini, Cloumage, Pickled Cabbage

Duck Meatball Sub·16
Spicy Marinara, Liver & Onions, Lancaster Amish Swiss

Pastrami on Rye·18
Cabbage Slaw, Russian Dressing, Gulden’s Mustard

Best Grilled Cheese Ever·13
Cheddar, Cultured Butter, Roasted Potato Bread

Winter Panzanella·13
Squash, Kale, Orchard Fruit, Toasted Bread Vinaigrette