food
While our menus vary slightly by location, you can expect to find delicious, home-made items like these at your nearest wichcraft.
coolsandwiches
warmsandwiches
salads
soups&sides
coffee&tea
colddrinks
desserts
wichcraft has been brewing La Colombe coffee since opening day in 2003. We chose this coffee for several reasons, ranging from its smooth, rich flavor originating in beans sourced from Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Mexico, to the business philosophy of its Philadelphia-based roasters. They believe in consistency and excellence every step of the way, from the fair trade practices of the growers, to the strictly overseen roasting process in Philadelphia.
Founded in 1993, La Colombe is committed to providing coffee crafted for purists. They strictly focus on coffee, ensuring that the beans reach the consumer within three days of roasting. Our wichcraft staff has been rigorously trained by La Colombe so that each and every cup of coffee, cappuccino, or espresso we brew is just perfect.
Our purveyors and the care they put into the food they produce are the first step in bringing our guests a delicious, wholesome meal. Here are the people behind just a few of our menu offerings:
- Tuna: American Tuna
- Pork: Berkridge Co-op, The Organic Prairie Co-op
- Ham: Niman Ranch, David’s Old World Meats
- Bacon: Ozark Mountain Pork Cooperative, David’s Old World Meats
- Pastrami: David’s Old World Meats
- Ground Beef: Tallgrass
- Chicken Breast: Grain-fed growth hormone-free
- Turkey Breast: Grain-fed and growth hormone-free
- Bread: Pain D’Avignon and Sullivan Street Bakery
- Greenmarket tomatoes: Eckerton Hill Farms
- Chickpeas, lentils, beans: Casa de Case
- Greens: Star Route Farms
- Grits: Anson Mills
- Jelly: homemade
- Mayo: homemade
- Dairy: Clover Stornetta
- Water: Saratoga Spring Water Co, Calistoga
- Juice: Fizzy Lizzy and Red Jacket Orchards, Voila and Apple-A-Day
- Soda: Boylan Bottling Co
- Coffee: La Colombe
- Tea: In Pursuit of Tea
tuna
If such a thing as perfect tuna exists, we have it at ‘wichcraft. The six San Diego-based fishing families that make up American Tuna provide us with pole-caught Albacore, meaning that the fish are caught one at a time. This certified sustainable method prevents over-fishing and ensures the availability of high quality tuna for generations to come. They only fish the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest, where young fish with low mercury levels swim. In fact, the mercury levels in American Tuna’s catch are so low they’re often untraceable.pork (nyc)
Q: What’s the difference between a major league baseball player and wichcraft’s pork?A: The pork isn’t on steroids.
Our pork comes from Berkridge Farms in northwestern Iowa, a co-op of 18 family farms that has been raising purebred Berkshire pork naturally (no hormones, no antibiotics, no steroids) and sustainably for 55 years. This group of farmers takes quality so seriously that they even oversee how their meat is packed so that only the finest cuts reach consumers.
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Q: what’s the difference between a major league baseball player and our pork?A: our pork isn’t on steroids.
The Organic Prairie Co-op has been raising delicious, organic pork since well before organic standards even existed. Their animals are unconfined and able to roam. They are never administered hormones, antibiotics, or steroids, and their feed has always been free of animal products. This is as good as pork gets, so enjoy it guilt-free!
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Our ham is from Niman Ranch, a pioneer in producing humane, sustainably raised, hormone- and antibiotic-free pork. We love their Jambon Royal, which is prepared in a European style without any added liquid and yielding rich, bold flavor. It’s dry cured for almost two months and then smoked over apple wood chips. We think it goes with everything!ham (sf)
The latest creation from San Francisco Renaissance man (radio host, wine consultant and reviewer and artisanal cured meat maker) David Cane is something we love here at wichcraft: ham. David has always loved ham too, and knew from the start that if he made his own it would have to be old fashioned. To him that meant no added water or phosphates, slight apple wood smokiness, and the best meat from a single center-leg cut. We agree!bacon (nyc)
Ever had that experience when you know exactly what you want but can’t find it anywhere? Well, that was our problem with bacon…until we got some help from 52 gracious farmers at the Ozark Mountain Pork Cooperative and our friends at D’Artagnan. They created a custom bacon just for us by starting with certified humane hormone- and antibiotic-free pork belly, giving it a one-of-a-kind cure for several days, and finally smoking it over apple wood chips. You won’t find bacon like this anywhere else (literally)!bacon (sf)
Ever had an experience where you knew exactly what you wanted but couldn’t find it anywhere? Well, that’s how we felt about bacon until our friend David Cane at David’s Old World Meats gave us a hand. David created a custom bacon just for wichcraft by starting with all-natural pork belly, giving it a one-of-a-kind cure and lightly smoking it over apple wood chips. You won’t find bacon like this anywhere else!pastrami
There’s only one man we trust with our pastrami, and that’s David Cane. He’s a San Francisco radio host with a penchant for New York’s famous pastrami sandwiches. He couldn’t find anything on the west coast that compared, so he started making his own artisanal cured meats on the side. His David’s Old World pastrami is USDA Choice or Prime 1st cut beef brisket raised, brined, cured and smoked without the use of antibiotics, growth hormones, or even added water.bread (nyc)
Our breads are baked fresh daily by artisanal bakers who make it the old way, by hand, at Pain D’Avignon and Sullivan Street Bakery right here in NYC. We think bread is an important flavor component in any sandwich, so we’re picky about only using the best. Some were even created just for wichcraft, like the cranberry walnut loaf used in our grilled cheddar sandwich.greenmarket tomatoes (nyc)
If it’s not August or September you might very well be wondering where the tomatoes are. When we first opened we decided that we would only serve fresh tomatoes during the local season. Unfortunately, the local tomato – or blt season – as we affectionately refer to it is short, but we’re able to make the most of the 8-10 weeks by offering a seasonal blt starring just-picked greenmarket tomatoes from Eckerton Hill Farm in Lenhartsville, PA. We think it’s worth the wait!chickpeas, lentils, beans
Our chickpeas are imported by San Franciscans Howard and Kris Case, two lovers of authentic Italian cuisine and ingredients. The Cases have spent years exploring Italy in search of the best beans, lentils, and olive oils, and they staunchly support Agribosco, which guarantees that each farmer they work with uses only seeds of ancient varieties, has an organic harvest, and preserves the biodiversity that has marked each growing region for centuries.greens
As much as we love our meals between two slices of bread, we know that sometimes our guests might be in the mood for a salad. That’s why every sandwich on the menu is available over a bed of fresh organic baby greens with house made lemon vinaigrette on the side. It’s a great way to get your wichcraft fix while keeping it a little bit lighter. Just specify “over greens“ when you order in store or online and you’ll be enjoying a freshly made salad in no time.grits
Grown by Anson Mills in South Carolina, our organic grits are the real thing: heirloom Gourdseed White corn, a variety with roots dating back to the 1600s. Anson Mills founder Glenn Roberts happens to be a historic restoration consultant, so when he decided to make the creamiest, most authentic grits possible he didn’t stop at reviving a near extinct variety; he pored over historical documents until he was also able to recreate a cold milling process that hadn’t been practiced in decades but yields the best flavor and texture.jelly
Many wichcraft guests love our pb&j because it makes them feel like a kid again, and we too think of it as a simple pleasure. That’s why we like to make it the old fashioned way, with homemade jelly. When our chef finds greenmarket fruit that he just can’t resist he buys it in bulk and gets to jelly-making. It might be rhubarb in the spring, strawberry in the summer, or concord grape in the fall. Whatever the flavor, you can always be sure that our jellies are made in our own kitchen with fruit at the peak of ripeness.mayo
We admit it – we love mayo – but most of what’s out there uses oils that we just don’t need to be consuming a lot of. So we make our own aioli (mayo) from scratch. It’s more flavorful than the store-bought stuff, and instead of the typical vegetable oil that most brands contain we use grapeseed and olive oils. These oils are known to help raise HDL “good” cholesterol and lower LDL “bad“ cholesterol.dairy (sf)
At wichcraft we do our best to offer high-quality locally raised food, and we happily serve milk and cream from Clover Stornetta. Their family farms in Marin, Sonoma, and Mendocino Counties are held to the highest standards: they are growth hormone free, American Humane certified, and hold the Seal of Sustainability from the Sustainable Business Institute. No other dairy in the world can say the same!water (nyc)
Carbon footprint? What carbon footprint? wichcraft tries to keep it local, even when it comes to water. Our Saratoga sparkling and still bottled waters are sourced at a sweet spring upstate in – you guessed it – Saratoga Springs. That means less ground to cover and less fuel to burn in order to get it to you. If it’s not coming out of the tap it should be coming from Saratoga.water (sf)
Carbon footprint? What carbon footprint? wichcraft tries to keep it local, even when it comes to our water. Our Calistoga still and sparkling waters are sourced and bottled at a spring in – you guessed it – Calistoga. That means less ground to cover and less fuel burned in order to get it to you. If it’s not coming out of the tap it should be coming from Calistoga.juice (nyc)
This Geneva, NY farm provides us with fresh pressed 100% Fuji apple and raspberry-apple juices that are pure fruit goodness. These juices have nothing added – no flavors, no water, and certainly no additional sweeteners – so they maintain the nutritional qualities and delicious flavor of the whole fruit.juice (sf)
We like our fruit juice to be just that: fruit juice. That’s why we’re such fans of Voila – the owners have been squeezing the best since 1978, when all they had was a cart in front of a BART stop in Berkeley and a few juicers in the shed behind their rental house. Operations are considerably more sophisticated these days, but the juice is as simply squeezed and delicious as ever.juice (sf)
We serve pure pressed apple juice from Apple-A-Day in nearly Sebastopol, CA. Nothing artificial, just apples.soda
Our sodas come from Boylan Bottling Co, just across the river in New Jersey. We love Boylan’s because their sodas are made the old-fashioned way, with recipes they’ve been using for over 100 years. Their natural sodas are free of artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives and always steer clear of corn syrup in favor of pure cane sugar. We’ll drink to that!coffee
At wichcraft we’re serious about coffee, which is why we serve only La Colombe. The La Colombe team works closely with a select group of family farmers in South America and Africa to grow the best fairly traded beans. After the harvest, the beans are roasted in very small batches in Philadelphia. From there it’s not long – under five days to be exact – until our guests are able to taste the results in a freshly brewed coffee, espresso, or cappuccino. You’d be hard pressed to find a better (or fresher) cup of coffee!tea
wichcraft serves only fragrant, single-estate loose leaf teas from In Pursuit of Tea. The three founders of the company really do spend their time pursuing tea; they explore remote corners of the world searching for tea farmers who grow exceptional plants. They spend time with them, learn the unique characteristics of the teas, and finally hand select the leaves that make it back to the US and into your teacup.beef (nyc)
Did you see that cow grazing in a cornfield? No, neither did we. That’s because cows are meant to eat grass, not the corn feed that too many farmers typically raise their cattle on. We place great importance on finding cattle farmers who raise beef as closely to how they’re found in nature as possible. Our beef is raised in free range pastures, where they feast on a diet of naturally growing grass and never receive hormones or antibiotics. Grass-fed beef not only has great flavor, it’s also lower in overall and saturated fats and higher in omega-3 fatty acids, beta-carotene, vitamin E and protein than grain-fed beef.We offer beer and wines by the glass at wichcraft San Francisco as well as a selection of bottled beer at some New York locations. We have carefully assembled our lists so that each beverage not only complements our menu, but provides excellent value as well. Order what you know and love, or ask our staff to help you find a delicious match.
wichcraft now serves beer at these NYC stores:
Flatiron 20th Street at Broadway
The Village 8th Street at Broadway
Tribeca Greenwich St at Beach St
We hope to bring beer to more locations soon!
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