In South Florida, and especially in the Florida Keys, we have a lot of New York “transplants.” Not only do I meet them everywhere, but half of my New York-born-and-bred family now sports Florida on their license plates.
If I may be so bold as to speak on behalf of these Floridian-New Yorkers, I bet they miss the food up north. If you’ve ever been to the northeast, the food scene is like no other. Fresh bagel shops are on every corner, bakeries are piping cannolis at your request, big logs of hand-pulled mozzarella or “mutz” as they would say. Well, guess what? I found the solution to these homesick cravings. It’s called Goldbelly.com and this website has changed the game in my house.
Think Amazon Prime getting you a lobster roll from your favorite restaurant in Maine in one day. In my first glance at Goldbelly, I thought they were pricey. Upon busting out my calculator and comparing, they aren’t bad at all. For example, one of my most recent orders was two dozen bagels and a pound of cream cheese from Zucker’s bagels in Manhattan. For all of that and shipping, my total was $86. For comparison, if I ordered the same thing in person in Manhattan it would have been probably $69. That’s a difference of $17, which I think is a heck of a lot cheaper than a plane ticket to New York.
For those of you wondering what I do with 24 perfect New York bagels, I blast Billy Joel’s “New York State Of Mind” so they don’t feel far from home when I open the box. I then proceed to vacuum seal each individual bagel and throw it in my freezer. If you didn’t know, bagels freeze phenomenally and reheat like champs. It’s like I’m transported to Long Island every time I toast one of those bad boys up.
If you looked in my freezer you would see said bagels and a lot of other treasures like cheesecake from Ferrara Bakery, rainbow cookies from Veniero’s Pastry and cannolis from Carlo’s Bakery, all from you guessed it, New York City. Goldbelly doesn’t end there; you can think of any meal at any restaurant and chances are they’ll be able to get it to you. Biscuits from Nashville, brisket from Texas and Boston cream pie from none other than Boston. You can literally order pineapples from Hawaii. My traveling has always been food-based, so this website is heaven-sent.
