Bite Size Beginnings to Start Your Meal
The Factory Nachos are 2,670 calories. These are 730.
Fried wonton chips replace tortilla chips, and chicken, cheese, Thai peanut sauce, green onion, sesame and wasabi cream go over them, which puts peanuts, sesame, soy and egg on a seven-item allergen list.
$7.95. 30 grams of protein. It's the nacho plate I'd order for two.
340 calories and 610 mg of sodium. Both are the lowest figures in its section of the new menu. It's also close to protein-free at 5 grams.
Three slices of toasted sourdough carry mashed avocado, rocket, cherry tomatoes, pickled red onion, grated parmesan and lemon zest, and the parmesan is why milk appears among the allergens alongside gluten and wheat.
Treat it as a snack. It won't hold you until dinner.
The white rind on brie is a mould, Penicillium candidum, and it's edible, so there's no need to cut it away before spreading the soft cheese underneath onto the bread.
Warm bread comes with brie, truffle-honey butter and housemade orange marmalade. The truffle honey is the same idea that drives the Truffle-Honey Chicken. 610 calories.
Vegetarian, with gluten, milk and wheat listed. 860 mg of sodium, second-lowest of the 10 bites.
David Chang put pork belly buns on the menu at Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York in 2004, and they became one of the most copied dishes of the decade.
This version slathers pork belly in barbecue sauce and tops it with coleslaw, crispy onions and pickles on warm rolls. 1,820 mg of sodium is the most of the 10 bites. 81 grams of fat.
Fish is on the allergen list. At 1,080 calories, only the Chicken & Biscuits is heavier among the bites.
It's on the Bites menu and carries 1,240 calories, 90 more than the entire Steak Diane plate.
Housemade buttermilk biscuits come topped with Southern fried chicken, sausage gravy and hot honey butter, three rich things stacked on a fourth. In the Bites section it has the most calories, the most fat, at 88 grams, and the most protein, at 44.
At $9.50 to $11.50, it's a cheap way to eat a full meal. I think that's the honest way to order it. Don't treat it as a starter. Sodium is 1,460 mg.
25 grams of fat, the least of the 10 bites. 480 calories.
Housemade meatballs are covered with vodka sauce, melted mozzarella and parmesan on slider rolls, and vodka sauce is tomato sauce finished with cream, with the vodka there to sharpen the flavour rather than to add alcohol you'd notice.
21 grams of protein. 1,390 mg of sodium. Egg sits on the allergen list with milk, gluten and wheat.
Fat supplies about 70% of the 600 calories, 47 grams of it, which is more than you'd guess from shrimp in a tomato-based Creole sauce over toasted bread.
The name says Cajun and the sauce says Creole. Louisiana cooks will tell you those aren't the same thing.
18 grams of protein. Shellfish and fish are both listed. $8.50 to $9.95.
Most truffle oil sold today gets its smell from a lab-made compound called 2,4-dithiapentane rather than from truffles, and the menu doesn't say which kind goes into these fries or their truffle aioli.
940 calories. That's 120 fewer than a side of French Fries, parmesan included. Eggs are listed, from the aioli.
85 grams of carbohydrate, the most of the 10 bites. Vegetarian.
$6.95, the cheapest of the bites. Guss' Pickles supplies the spears.
The pickles are peeled, dipped in flour and buttermilk, coated in seasoned breadcrumbs and fried, then served with spicy ranch, which is why 47 grams of fat supply about 81% of the 520 calories.
18 grams of carbohydrate, the fewest of the bites. 3 grams of protein. Vegetarian.
Arancini means little oranges, the Sicilian name for fried rice balls, and here the rice is spicy Creole rice with andouille sausage, peppers and onions instead of saffron risotto.
59 grams of fat on 730 calories. The frying does that.
Fish is listed, though nothing in the description explains it. 12 grams of protein. $7.50 to $8.50.