"It's hard to stand out among all the new businesses on Greenpoint’s restaurant row, but Taku Sando fills a nice, portable lunch-related niche. From the people behind the LIC izakaya Takumen, the small restaurant has a back patio that we’re eyeing for spring, and serves pork and chicken katsu, egg salad, and potato korokke sandwiches. They specialize in making a fluffy, slightly sweet Japanese milk bread, and if you like your sandwich with the edges cut off, you should reconsider: The chewy, dense crust is what makes these particularly good. They also serve a few different salads, and paper-thin ribbon fries, which you can get dusted with dashi furikake." - Will Hartman, Willa Moore, Neha Talreja, Sonal Shah, Tiffany Yannetta