Newkirk's – East Coast Sandwiches In The Mission!

San Francisco CA

10 November, 2021

5:21 PM

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By Maria C. Ascarrunz, Mission Local November 9, 2021 Full disclosure: I've often been curious, but had never had a famed NYC bodega breakfast bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, known in local parlance as a "BEC." I stumbled upon Newkirk's one morning getting a supplemental Covid-19 vaccine at SF General, and to my chagrin learned that they'd been open for four years. FOUR YEARS! That's four years of my life not having had this deliciously iconic sandwich, and all its cousins, for breakfast. Well, no more. My first foray into this land of melty goodness was the aforementioned BEC – the classic bacon, egg and American cheese on a perfectly squishy, poppy-seed roll. Now I know what all the fuss is about. It's a perfect amalgamation of salty, cheesy, crunch, pillowy, and warmth, the flavors and textures in perfect balance with each other. The over-medium egg was still a little jammy, adding to the oozy allure. I could have had it with ketchup, but I opted for one of their hot sauces (the orange one – habanero – but fear not, this is the mildest habanero hot sauce you'll ever encounter.) This is how a day in the Mission should start. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.