Little Egg

Tomato sandwich season is in full flush... don't miss it!

Breakfast buddies! We're taking a little break this week! We're closed today through next Wednesday April 14th, reopening at 8am on Thursday the 15th.

Check out our neighbors & while we're gone for your tasty breakfast and lunch needs and we'll see you soon!

We're full of summery specials this weekend at Little Egg! On the savory side, the perfect summer lunch in our opinion: a seaside-y fried cod sandwich by with shiso & dill tartar sauce topped with a pickled fennel & fresno chili slaw.

And for something sweet we're looking at crisp crescents of sour cherry hand pies with sour cream whip by .egg.yolk as well as a cooling coconut semifreddo with blackberry compote, fig leaf oil, and feuilletine by .this.make.me.happy. What a season! What a team! See you soon!

Heading out to pasture, see you at 8am Friday!

Next week! We're hosting a collab pop-up with , formerly the beloved chef of Fradei in Brooklyn! Nico is currently developing the food program at , but is bringing his thoughtful seasonal cooking back to the city for one night at Little Egg next Tuesday July 9th.

The menu will feature bright summer dishes like salt and vinegar fried wax beans, kombujime fluke crudo, corn & pine nut salad, and grilled pork collar, followed by summer fruit-filled desserts by .this.make.me.happy! Plus is picking and pouring wines to make the food and room sing. So yeah, basically perfect summer vibes.

DM or email us at little @ eggrestaurant.com for reservations! We'll save some walk-in spots as well but you know our space is petite so better to save yourself a seat!

We'll be donating 30% of profits for this evening to "We Feed Gaza", a grassroots humanitarian food and aid campaign.

Thanks to for the 🐖 🎨 🪧

When we re-opened as Little Egg last year we kept a lot of classics from Egg's menu in Williamsburg. The Little Egg Katsu was one of the new dishes, and we suspected that it would be a hit...who wouldn't love an egg sandwich that was crispy, custardy, bright, a little spicy, and unlike other egg sandwich out there?

Really proud to see our little egg katsu emerge as a new classic, and so grateful to for including us in such good company in this piece for . NYC is one of the great sandwich cities, especially breakfast sandwiches, and it's special to be among the notables for such a central part of our city's food identity and culture.

(If you're ever in Tokyo ask us for the kushikatsu stand that inspired the sandwich in the first place! See y'all for breakfast soon!)

Very glad to be taking part in this weekend's -organized bake sale raising funds for 's industry-supporting mental health services. Each of the participants will be selling some special spring treats at their locations, so make a day of it and take a tasty loop around BK!

At Little Egg we'll have a batch of green garlic biscuits sandwiched with pimento cheese and pickled cucumbers available Saturday and Sunday - slide in the DMs to pre-order or just come by over the weekend!

Love being in such good company supporting such a great cause - be sure to stop by & this weekend and beyond!

Today and tomorrow at Little Egg .this.make.me.happy & of layered up this lovely first of the season local rhubarb tart with crisp pastry, strawberry rhubarb jam, lemon thyme, and creme fraiche whip. How lucky are you?!

One year ago today we opened Little Egg on Washington Ave! It's been a wild, sometimes difficult, sometimes absurd, often amazing first year, and we're gonna fry up some chicken this afternoon to celebrate. Stop by! We've got lots of stories to share (ask us what happened to the syrup!)

Another thing we have to share is enormous thanks to everyone who has made little egg possible, from our opening crew to today's team, with special shout outs to .this.make.me.happy .jg and so many more. We wouldn't be here without them, and everyone who's left their mark on our little space along the way.

Thanks for showing us so much love from Day 1, excited for lots more in the year ahead!

Today's from the lens of - sticky toffee carrot cakes by .this.make.me.happy & lined up at Little Egg a la Wayne Thiebaud

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Couldn't be happier to be kicking off Spring with our buddy who will bring her brilliant pop-up to Little Egg for a couple dinnertime hangs on Monday April 15 & Tuesday April 16. Feels particularly full circle to have Susan back in our space which, back in the days, hosted so many amazing pop-ups including early Doshi!

Menu and details coming next week! Imagine spins on the Doshi classics like croquettes, hwe, rice cakes, and tofu skin salad, plus some special Doshi-inspired desserts by .this.make.me.happy

For now, save the date & we'll see you soon 💛🍳🍚

It's the third day of Spring (even though it feels like the heel of winter) and over here at Little Egg it's our first day of switching to accepting tips!

When we opened up almost a year ago on Washington Avenue our main priority was to make a restaurant that did its best to live by our values - sustainable and local sourcing, being a caring and responsible part of our local community, sharing our resources, and being a great place to work and eat on all levels from the personal to the ethical to the financial.

Of the choices we made when we took root in our new home, trying out a gratuity-free model was a big one. Despite seeing many gratuity-free restaurants switch back to tips in response to staff preference and financial difficulties (aside from the few who have maintained, like 🙌) we had to try it, even as a casual breakfast spot, in an effort towards pay equity among our team. Maybe we were, as they say, built different?

It turns out, well, maybe not. Restaurants are still hard to run! People still don't make enough money! And we don't want to stick with a principle that has potential ethical benefits but isn't the best option for the people we're working with at this very moment. So we decided as a team to shift back to the old reliable, giving our servers a chance to make a bit more and customers a way to share their love for our team.

That said, we think there's a better way, one that's available to restaurants in every state except New York and Massachusetts. The One Fair Wage model allows restaurants that don't take a tip credit (aka pay all their employees at least the full minimum wage) to share tips with cooks and servers alike. has been advocating for this for a long time and we're planning to push for that option to become a reality in NY as well.

If you're interested in learning more about our thinking and signing on to a petition towards our One Fair Wage goals, you can find the link in our bio. We're so grateful for all the love y'all have shown us in our first year and are excited to grow into our second! Thanks for the generosity and support, we'll see you for breakfast soon.

This ain't Texas...but tomorrow and Monday & .this.make.me.happy are bringing a touch of the Lone Star to Little Egg with two kolaches: sweet peaches & cream and savory sausage, cheddar, & jalapeño 🤤 Come wrap yourself in one of each, starting at 8:30am!

Tomorrow and Monday at Little Egg & .this.make.me.happy are piping sun kissed peanut butter banana eclairs bursting with creme diplomat & banana caramel and topped with a salty toffee peanut crunch. Plus they match our banquettes! Swipe for the cross section, see you tomorrow!

You know it and you love it, or you're about to: now running the Egg classic Duck Hash as a weekday special! A pocket of crispy griddled hash brown filled with rich duck confit, a little celery, and a scattering of scallions, served with 2 eggs your style. And yep, this is Monday Thursday and Friday only - take that weekday break! See you soon! 🦆🍳🥔

Tomorrow and Monday at BOTH Little Egg and Salty Lunch Lady's Little Luncheonette your bellies can be blessed by this brilliantly nostalgic malted strawberry tres leches cake with salty malted whip and strawberry crunch, from the good-humored minds of & .this.make.me.happy. Available starting at 8:30am at Little Egg and 11:30am at the Luncheonette, until we sell out (that's a when not an if!) Don't miss out. *Plays Good Humor truck theme and drives off into the distance*

Remember: we're now open on Thursdays! Take a meeting, eat and read at the counter, order a katsu and a cruller for delivery so you don't even need to leave your house...we're here for you! See you tomorrow!

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You ever at work and wish you were at Little Egg? Hit us up for catering! Your meetings could be flanked by a tray of egg sandwiches, a basket of biscuits and pastries, some or coffee, a big salad or chicken cutlet sandwich, or even off-menu items like genmaicha overnight oats or breakfast tacos! DM or email us for more info!

Today & tomorrow at Little Egg grab yourself a flaky, custardy egg tart from our pastry cook and most-aligned-IG-handle-haver .egg.yolk, in the pastry case for a couple days as a special Lunar New Year treat! Happy year of the dragon!

New to the pastry case this weekend from .this.make.me.happy: sweet brioche roll baked with a dollop of coconut cream cheese, a bright cap of blackberry jam, and a turbinado sugar belt. Elegant, delicious, probably gonna be a classic. Available starting at 8:30 every morning til sold out.

Got a tray full of pastries and a griddle full of pancakes ready for y'all today, our first THURSDAY open as Little Egg! It's cozy and quiet and would be better if you were here 💛🌞🍳

Well that's a pretty tasting looking new broccoli pimento melt that you will now be able to get on THURSDAYS! That's right, we're opening Little Egg on Thursdays starting this week for all your breakfast & lunch needs.

And yes we'll have this new sandwich special that eats something like the love child of our hot ham and pimento cheese sandwich and the iconic broccoli reuben from , full of broccoli, pimento cheese, sauerkraut, and pickled onions on rye. See you soon!

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There are a LOT of great pastries in NYC, so to have the Little Egg cruller named the city's best by & is an amazing honor, to say the least. And even though we know "Best" is a questionable concept, we definitely think we have the best in Tanya aka .this.make.me.happy, who has been a part of Little Egg from well before the beginning and makes magic with the whole pastry menu, including bringing this perfect crisp-custardy cruller to life! Not to mention rebirthing it every couple months with yet another brilliant and unique glaze and drizzle combo that's always somehow better than the last.

Tanya spent months tweaking this cruller starting way before Little Egg opened (see the early spread of test pastries from nearly a year ago at the end of these photos!) Especially cool to us is the way she worked local AP flour from grains into a delicate batter when most would insist on reaching for the whitest flour around, and still gets that gorgeous rise! We've known from Day 1 that this is our favorite cruller in the city, and it's nice to see we're not alone!

Gonna start testing a new flavor this weekend to celebrate. Congrats Tanya, we love you and your pastries too!

Much like the moon, the true beauty of a bowl of biscuits and gravy resists the best efforts of a camera's lens. Maybe it's their shared qualities: the way they reflect the sun's light back at us in a way that makes it seem their own, their craggy surfaces. Anyway, we know that they both have a pull on us, spiritually and physically, shifting the tides of our day (both, interestingly, often towards a little sleep.)

Which is to say: we've got biscuits and gravy as a special at Little Egg this weekend! Choose either our pork sausage gravy or a vegetarian mushroom version, aglow with black pepper and silk chili, coating a buttery split biscuit. A sunny egg on top, orb gracing orb like a brilliant breakfast eclipse, wouldn't hurt it either. Go ahead: look right at it, take it all in.

Join us this Wednesday 12/6 for the second installment of the Tadhamon! pop up series, featuring chef of Shaebi in Detroit who will be preparing a traditional Palestinian dinner.

Chef Omar is a James Beard Foundation nominated chef recognized for his commitment to sustainability and building community through food and co-initiator of .

Two seatings will be available: 6pm and 8:30pm. Purchase tickets on the Events page on our website! Link in bio.

$85 ticket price includes all food in a family-style setting, one welcome drink, and service. Additional beverages will be available for purchase. Vegan/Vegetarian options will be available upon request.

In addition to sharing this delicious meal together, we'll be joined by Korean and Puerto Rican activists and other cultural workers sharing ways to build solidarity and take action in support of Palestinian life and freedom.

To keep building this movement for freedom from Detroit to Brooklyn to Gaza follow and

Tomorrow we are living our sweet and salty and sweet potato dreams with aka .doughies who has twirled up this banger of a doughnut special with .this.make.me.happy! Come get these Sweet Potato Pretzel Doughnuts with citrus glaze (like if Krispy Kreme was farm to table) tomorrow starting at 9:30am at Little Egg!

Next week we host the second installment of & 's Tadhamon! pop-up series featuring chef bringing his new concept Shaebi to Brooklyn for two nights, December 6th and 7th.

Our first dinner in the series this past week with chef of was an incredibly beautiful night of food, community, and solidarity, and these two dinners are sure to be more of the much-needed same.

Tickets are at the link in bio for 6pm and 8:30pm seatings each night. Sliding scale tickets are also available, please write if a reduced price would make this space more accessible for you.

Thanks to .world for supporting this series with spice and beverage donations. And to for the brilliant imagery.

Dream special today care of .this.make.me.happy & : Thai tea tiramisu with jujube cream! Come have a slice of this and keep your holiday vibes alive.

If you missed it this past weekend, here's your notice for next: NEW CRULLER FLAVOR! Leaning all the way into fall with this spiced cinnamon sugar and apple cider caramel combo from .this.make.me.happy. See you Friday!

Thanks for showing the Little Egg Katsu some love on this roundup of one of the best parts of living in NYC...our amazing range of delicious breakfast sandwiches.