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| Sausage & Egg Pita |
Greek Deli
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I’ve been criticized recently for employing ethnocentric taxonomies on this site, so although I’m not fully convinced it’s actually a sandwich, out of respect for our Greek brethren and their ideas about portable food, the sausage and egg pita from Greek Deli is the sixth entry in our September Sunrise Sandwich Spree. By midday, this postage stamp-sized shop on 19th Street NW will be jammed with Farragut office workers looking for a quick bite. Pre-workday, however, every available inch of floorspace is filled by employees working feverishly to mix and grate and chop the day’s bounty. The breakfast pitas, stuffed with egg, tomato and feta, priced at about $3 vegetarian, or with sausage or gyro meat for an extra buck, are everything a breakfast sandwich should be: cheap, quick, tasty and substantial. The feta and tomato are a welcome twist on the classic, if a little tired sausage and egg combination. And really, “substantial” is unfair; they’re massive. Furthermore, while pitas in general tend to be structural nightmares, the flatbread wrap holds up admirably to the egg and sausage ensemble. Whether it constitutes a sandwich, for the purposes of this blog, I haven’t quite decided. But regardless of what we call it, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more fairly priced, flavorful breakfast in D.C.