Ever since I saw the sign many years ago, I've wanted to eat at Mr. Pickle's for the name alone. Then I started hearing good things about the sandwiches, and that toque-wearing Mr. Pickle looked even friendlier. I finally tried Mr. Pickle's a few weeks back, and I was not disappointed — though, despite what some people say, it's nowhere near as good as Ike's. Click through the photos, then chime in with your thoughts.
I love sandwiches and cocktails — often together. But I've never eaten a grilled cheese and thought, "you know what would be good with this? A martini." Apparently, that comfort food and booze combo makes sense Beecher's.
The Seattle cheese emporium, which recently opened in NYC, has an off-menu item called the grilled cheese martini, which is exactly what it sounds like: grilled cheese sandwich-infused vodka, shaken with fresh tomatoes, muddled basil, and tomato juice.
Now here's the really terrifying part: Beecher's isn't the first to mix up a grilled cheese martini. Clive's in Victoria, BC, makes one with grilled cheese rum. Would you dare order one?
Two new sandwiches caught my eye this week as I walked by The Golden West: avocado, artichoke, tomato, and mint (four of my favorite things!) and a version of the divine Nicoise salad between bread. I haven't been out to lunch in ages, and I was bored by the idea of my salad, so post-2 p.m. I hightailed it out.
Tragically, considering what a special occasion this was, the avo and artichoke was sold out, as was the Nicoise. Determined, I marched over to The Sentinel, which highly satisfied with the last remaining tuna sandwich of the day.
Like the tony tuna salad at Bar Jules, this salad leaned on peppers, not mayo, for flavor, mixing them in with other Nicoise ingredients like egg and olive. It was garnished with the usual blessedly fresh butter lettuce and a few green beans, which were a nice crunch; could have used more, in fact. But all in all, yesterday The Sentinel was looking out for me.
The grilled cheese sandwich-centric restaurant goes big with a new chain of fast casual restaurants called The Melt. Flip camera founder Jonathan Kaplan, moving from capturing video to capturing nostalgia, plans to open the first Melt in San Francisco in August and have 500 national locations by 2015; restaurateur Michael Mina is also an investor. Since Kaplan also happens to be on the board of Sugar Inc., I got a special early taste at my company's five-year anniversary party. Click through to see what's coming.
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