{"id":106180,"date":"2026-01-20T19:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:11:09","slug":"people-still-wait-hours-for-this-32-french-dip-from-an-influencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106180\/","title":{"rendered":"People Still Wait Hours for This $32 French Dip From an Influencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Recipe content creator Henry Laporte (aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@salt_hank?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Hank<\/a>) opened <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/venue\/936287\/salt-hanks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Hank\u2019s<\/a> in the West Village <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/dining-out-in-ny\/403910\/french-dip-sandwiches-nyc-restaurants-salt-hank-corner-store-gui\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to much fanfare<\/a> in 2025. Laporte, who has nearly 5 million followers across social media platforms, teamed up with chef Daniel Rubenfeld (a Thomas Keller alum) to make their viral French dip. The restaurant only serves a handful of menu items: said sandwich, shoestring fries, and accouterments like cole slaw. (Rumor has it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DSYPnwyE2b3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chicken Parm dip<\/a> is now available on Wednesdays, too.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Don\u2019t skip the limeade. The drink cuts through the richness of the sandwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Get here at least 30 minutes before opening. When I arrived at 11 a.m. on a Saturday, the line was down the block. Near opening time, an employee walks down the line and asks if you want to eat inside or get your sandwich to-go. If you choose indoors, they have a seat ready for you when it\u2019s your turn to eat. Although there\u2019s a substantial wait, getting your sandwich is smooth and efficient.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recipe content creator Henry Laporte (aka Salt Hank) opened Salt Hank\u2019s in the West Village to much fanfare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[17863,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-106180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-dining-reports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}