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Brine & Dandy

Corner of Vinegar Hill & Mill, Larchmont Falls

Pickled with patience. Piled on rye.

A pickle shop with a sandwich counter, or the other way round depending on who you ask. Everything is brined in the back, in crocks older than the building.

See the menuOrder ahead
Garlic Dillno. 7, extra garlicky

Take a jar home

Pint jars, sealed the morning they leave. Bring the empty back and we knock a dollar off the next one.

Garlic Dill no. 7Loud, sour, crunchy. The original.$9
Bread & ButterSweet, a bit of turmeric, very polite.$9
Fire SpearsHabanero and garlic. Sign the waiver.$10

Grandma Ruth’s crock

Dot Brennan opened Brine & Dandy in 2011 with two hundred dollars, one borrowed slicer and her grandmother’s five-gallon crock. The crock is still in the back. So is the recipe, written on the inside of a cereal box.

We ferment slowly, salt by weight, and never add vinegar to a pickle that did not ask for it. It takes longer. You can taste that it takes longer.

  • I came for a sandwich and left with four jars and a new personality.Marcus, a regular
  • The Fried Spear is the best thing in this town and I have lived here forty years.June, also a regular
  • Ask for the end of the rye. Trust me.Sam, works here

Come and visit

418 Vinegar Hill Road
Larchmont Falls
(555) 010-4418
Opening hours
MondayClosed, brining
Tuesday to Friday8am to 6pm
Saturday9am to 5pm
Sunday10am to 3pm

Closed on public holidays. Parking is round the back, past the green door.

Vinegar Hill RdMill StFerry Park

Catering for the picklecurious

Sandwich platters, pickle boards and a very large jar for the middle of the table. Tell us about your do and Dot will call you back with a plan and a price.