Name: The Cheap Eats Guide to a Brooklyn Date Night
Uploaded: 2026-03-04T06:11:21.000Z
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Being a cheap date can sort of have a bad rap, but

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knowing where to go on a cheap date is a truly valuable piece of knowledge.

I'm taking you to where I want to eat when I'm on a cheap date.

Well, I'd love to warm up with a black sesame latte.

And always got to get my ham and cheese bolo bao.

I've been coming to Land to see ever since you guys opened, and

it's been so amazing to see, like, the evolution.

And I love to hear a little bit more about, like, how it came about.

We opened four years ago now, so we're four years old.

My family owned a restaurant in Williamsburg, and I've always loved this area.

And, you know, we wanted to create a true place for gathering for creatives, for, you know, folks that wanted to come and, you know, learn a craft or have a pop up or enjoy a nice cup of coffee with someone.

I feel like we're still really true to what we want to do, which is feature, you know, great coffee and our own cultural heritage.

And then tell me a little bit more about the food.

So, like, obviously the egg tarts have been on your menu since the beginning.

So a lot of these pastries have always felt so super familiar to me.

So it's a classic egg custard, but it's been torched on the top a little bit.

So it's got kind of that caramelly flavor.

It's still lightly sweet but not too sweet.

And it's perfectly crispy and perfectly flaky, and it's my favorite thing on the menu.

And this is the ham and cheese bolabao sandwich.

We make it with a milk bread with, like, on top.

It's a, like a flaky caramelized butter sugar topping.

So it's got that mix of salty and sweet, which is also a very popular flavor combination for a Lot of Cantonese dishes.

Cause I'm like a sucker for ham and cheese.

And the little bit of that, like, savory umami that you put but on the chili crisp is like, exactly the icing on the cake that we need.

Yeah, I love this ham and cheese bolo bow.

I feel like this is like the perfect sandwich because we can split it.

It's a little bit messy, so a little bit of an icebreaker.

Sometimes if it's, like, not cooked properly, it's almost a little, like, curdled.

But this one is, like, super perfect and silky and smooth, which is why I love it.

It ended up being about 20 bucks for everything.

We're here at Lela Alimentari, one of my favorite spots for a cheap date.

I would love a iced coffee and a piadina classica.

Leila Almentari is this, like, family owned business.

They've been open for, like, 10, 11 years now.

The owner wanted to sort of bring the piadinas that his, like, grandma and his mom used to make back in Italy.

It's really hard to get piadines that are, like, handmade and so, like, well executed like these.

They love buying, like, all these fun junk and trinkets and stuff, like, all over, like, upstate.

Whenever they travel, you'll see sort of like little collections of like, old thermoses or like, an old scale.

I've been coming here for probably, like, 10 years now, and I've tried every single sandwich.

It's got prosciutto and arugula and stracciatella, which is kind of this, like, soft mozzarella cheese.

And it's just the perfect combination because it's like that, like, saltiness from the meat, the creaminess from the cheese, but

I guess I would explain it as like a Italian quesadilla.

They make their own flatbread in house, and it's the perfect.

The arugula is so key here because the bitter, like, vegetableness really cuts through the richness of the rest of the sandwich.

Every time I get the sandwich, I'm like, could it still be so good?

And every time I get it, it's really freaking good.

My favorite thing about their iced coffee, even though we just had coffee, is that they have this pebble ice, and

it's kind of, like, chewy, and it's like, the perfect texture.

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