A Little Bit About a Lot of Things

I stopped for lunch at Cemita’s at #Seaportsmorg and sat outside at one of the picnic tables. Cemita’s is just one of the restaurants serving at these cute little outdoor pods at the South Street Seaport Smorgasburg location. They make delicious barbacoa tacos – pictured above. The line was long at lunchtime, but it was worth the wait.

A cemita is a common street food from Puebla, Mexico. Its 10 layers include bean spread, mayo, lettuce, onions, tomato, avocado, oaxaca cheese, chipotle, and your choice of southern fried chicken, carnitas, chicken tinga, and barbacoa. We chose the barbacoa and we were in love at first bite. While the sandwich is certainly hard to get your mouth around, it is delicious – there are so many layers of flavors, it’s hard to pick out what I like best about the sandwich. I think it’s the melding of all the flavors that does it – but if I had to say, the cheese and the avocado really make the sandwich for me.

Cemitas

Smorgasburg at South Street Seaport

Fulton Street between South and Front

http://cemitasnyc.com

Tags: mexican, new york, taco, wall street