The 28th annual Atlantic Antic took place last Sunday, and the Hubs and I attended with empty bellies. We took the pooch along–we couldn’t let him pass up a mile-long carpet of dropped people-food scraps!
The food offerings ranged from your standard street fair zeppole and shawarma booths, to some more local Brooklyn specialties, from Caribbean curry goat to Lebanese baklava. The hubs and I shared food from many of the booths. The Hubs can’t pass by a street fair without getting a Mozzarepa (a corn patty stuffed with mozzarella), so he had one of those, of which I took a few bites. We split and sandwich from Nicky’s Vietnamese Sandwiches. The Hubs liked it, but I thought the bites without Siracha lacked flavor. We also split a mini key lime pie from Steve’s Authentic in Red Hook. It was just a delicious as I heard they were. I only wish they were selling their famous frozen, chocolate-dipped key lime pies at the Antic. I love that his pies aren’t bright green as so many places feel they need to be.
The biggest culinary highlight of all was (unexpectedly) the pizza fresh from the portable brick oven at Lunetta’s booth. I ate at their restaurant once and didn’t remember pizza being on the menu, but this pizza was among the better pies I have had in my life. Simple flavors, precicely balanced, on a flavorful, perfectly crispy-chewy crust (not burnt! I am not a fan of the so-called “charred” crusts of many a popular pizza place).
Some other neat things spied: pulled pork on pretzel sandwiches at Building on Bond; a fruit punch purveyor rockin’ an Isaac Hayes look; frisbee-sized fish cakes; “Obama burgers”; and a new gyro poster girl!
See photos of all we ate, and a bunch of other food offerings from the Antic below.
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