Savory and sweet.
I love Buttercup Bake Shop, Sugar Sweet Sunshine, and the rest of their cupcake-slingin’ ilk, but the to-go food trend I really wish would catch on is the crêperie. (For a place nicknamed “French Greene,” where you can’t throw a stone without hitting a French speaker, you’d think we’d have at least one amongst the bistros.) Gridskipper’s “New York Crêpe Escapes” maps a handful of places in the city to get your crêpe fix; I frequent two of them (Palacinka and Shade), but neither comes close to being as good as my favorite crêperie on the planet, A la Bonne Crêpe in Paris. Once I’m off the plane in that town, it’s one of the first three places I go, and I have the same thing every time: the Nordique, a crêpe with smoked salmon, lemon, and crème fraîche. Perfection.
I make do locally with Le Gamin’s smoked salmon crêpe. I think they’re crazy expensive (as is Noo Na, their sister Korean restaurant across from their Prospect Heights location on Vanderbilt Avenue), but they deliver to southern Clinton Hill…and it’s cheaper than a plane ticket to Paris.