Among the more celebrated food vendors at the new location of the Brooklyn Flea we found Anthi’s. Anthi’s is a purveyor of Greek food that you can find at a few of the street festivals around the city — I last encountered them at 7th Heaven. While my friends were chowing down on lobster rolls and tamales, I had an excellent zucchini pie (they described it as the “lesser-known” version of spanikopita). Well seasoned, flaky and crunchy, it was the perfect lunchtime snack. I also had a wedge of baklava, which was a little dry and overly sweet.

Oh lobster lobster roll. What a dear dear friend you are.
Okay so I’m a little embarrassed to say that I’m a lobster roll newbie. Never had one before. I do love lobster. My family always gets it at those Chinese banquet family style restaurants. They would cook it in this super rich broth with ginger and scallions. Once in a while I would randomly think about a lobster roll and that would be it. BUT then one day I found out that Red Hook Lobster Pound was going to serve their lobster rolls at the Brooklyn Flea, yay! What was also nice was that they, the Brooklyn Flea, had moved out into the open right under the Brooklyn bridge instead of being inside a building. You know, just not very flea market like. Anyways I kept wanting to go every Sunday but laziness kept winning. Finally I got Mo to go with me, surprisingly with very little persuasion, and we walked from our apt down to DUMBO. By the time we got it was already close to 2pm and the flea opened at noon. I was expecting a super long line but when we got there there wasn’t. Maybe 6 people long. As we were standing in line we noticed Pizza Moto, the mobile wood-fired brick oven pizzeria was there also! Sweet.
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