C&B Café debuts new menu items as gas service remains off

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy 

C&B Café is debuting a temporary cold menu today while waiting on ConEd to restore gas service to its outpost on Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Owner Ali Sahin and his team have pulled together a lineup that includes turkey and cold ham sandwiches (with ham slow-cooked in-house), menemen, and a mushroom-and-egg salad. 

The café will be relying on two induction burners until the gas is turned back on. 

Yesterday afternoon, Sahin worked on a fried veggie sandwich with eggplant, tomato and zucchini that he recalled from a trip to Italy..

In a bit of good news: A new gas line has been installed and all the pipes are operational — they're just waiting on ConEd's final approval. 

Gas service was shut down early Tuesday morning after an alarm went off in the basement of the building at 178 E. Seventh St. 

Sahin said the issue traces back eight or nine years, to what he calls shoddy work on a previous gas line. 

Aside from the new menu items, C&B is still turning out wholesale orders along with plenty of pastries, bread and coffee. Lots of coffee.

Previously on EV Grieve:

• C&B Café trying to make the best of a bad situation after gas shutoff on 7th Street