Egg and cheese sandwiches are often just that: egg and cheese on toast or a roll or a bagel. just as often, they co-star a choose-your-own breakfast meat, be it bacon or sausage or ham. but arguably the most festive version, especially during hanukkah, features a crispy, chewy latke. The Latke, Egg, and Cheese sandwich on house-baked challah from B&H Dairy in Manhattan’s East Village, which has technically been available for years, yet only just became a permanent menu item.
“One of the things that drives my eating is being able to go to a restaurant and put together disparate elements to make something even better,” Lawrence Weibman, the de facto creator of the sandwich, told me over the phone.