L&g Grocery

There’s an unheralded elegance in a well stocked neighborhood grocery store, or as we call them in Brooklyn, «bodegas,» which I learned in a trip to Spain that the word originally meant «wine repository,» though the only such beverages I’ve ever found in them were of the Night Train variety, which barely qualifies as such.
Anyway, L&G is a decent deli with hot coffee that’s freshest in the morning, it seems, and sandwiches made to order, which are the basics that any bodega needs to achieve a three-​star rating. They’re decent, too, though perhaps not likely to make much of a splash in the Zagat guide, if one were to exist for Irvington.
Sadly, there is no wine here, but that’s thanks to New Jersey’s Byzantine liquor laws.