BRIEF: “VCR coffee nut butter, banana, chocolate ganache, candied walnut, house-made blueberry jam, seeded sourdough.” SOOT’S TAKE: Scrumpdillyicious and they make good bread too.

So simple yet so solid. Happy to have eaten some of the rainbow with these, to have attempted a new baguette recipe and to have disposed off that box of leftover radishes I’ve been desperate not to let rot. 😮‍💨

Second-last of the 2 left in their case 33 min before closing, but still very good after toasting.

One of their vegetable creatures, consisting of cauliflower, tahini, tomato salsa, spicy green peppers, scallions

BRIEF: “Imagine freshly baked bread stuffed with tender sliced turkey, chicken ham, crispy chicken bacon, melted cheese, and your choice of tasty vegetables and condiments.” SOOT’S TAKE: I had mine on honey oat with tomato, onion, olives, corn dressed with Chipotle Southwest. So satisfying 20 h after my last meal!

Happy National Sandwich Day! Nobody at the table thought this was eggplant, but it was!

“Crisp croissant sandwich filled with smoked salmon with rich in-house recipe cream cheese, added with dill, capers and red onion.” The croissant itself wasn’t crispy but overall, it was a good sandwich (I liked that they piped the cream cheese) and I would repeat. Nice change from a lox bagel 🥯👍 #PastriWich

Quick, easy and satisfying. Making those hoagie rolls from scratch the day before was so worth it.

Lazy lunch… 🥯

Made everything from scratch: from the curried mash potato, chickpea-cauliflower filling, pickled onions and cilantro mint chutney right down to the roti! This is one of few things that gets to be relatively healthy and tasty at the same time. 😉

Made an epic sandwich for lunch 🥪 with Japanese milk bread that I also made in the morning. Yes, I began at ~ 05:30.

Club-ISH

Not bad for domestic airline food.

Happy National Sandwich Day! Spiced up cheese toastie of paneer, cheddar, potato with mustard seeds for extra kick and krunch! Or could this be a quesadilla? 🤔

My attempt to experience (if only very briefly) an Indian childhood. Essentially, it’s a slightly spiced up version of slaw sandwiched between slices of homemade white tin bread. It’s relatively guilt-free yet decent.

Lidia was pretty amused when I used the membrillo as a condiment with the salami. It was clearly a first in her kitchen.

I made this up too and so this was also a first in Lidia’s kitchen. 😆

From THE BAO MAKERS: Steamed Sesame Bun, signature salted egg sauce, seasoned fried chicken

From THE BAO MAKERS: Steamed Sesame Bun, signature salted egg sauce, seasoned fried chicken

Teatime sandwich.

Free flow filet mignon sandwiches on Mortini Nights!

OTAH OTAH FRITTATA CROISSANT SANDWICH to help cover me for GI upsets.

Surf & Turf bao platter so to speak, with a combination of chili crab bao, salted egg chicken bao and salted egg shrimp bao.

Steamed sesame bun, signature salted egg sauce, seasoned fried chicken

Deep fried bun, fresh crabmeat with chili, fried shallots

Been making some version of this sandwich everyday as an emergency ration since our first day in Patagonia. As with the others, Sooty included dulce de membrillo and cream cheese in her version.

Lox, lettuce, tomato, onion and cream cheese (bird food) bagel sandwich. Designed by Jackie, executed by John.

Batter-fried pork cutlet sandwiches with a sweet sauce spread over the bread to end the day.

I hate to say it but I think I’ve enjoyed a pastramiwich more elsewhere, and for a mere fraction of the price they’re bilking out of a visiting diner’s FOMO. Never mind the generous serving of pastrami and the amount of work that went into producing it (“like it has been done for five generations and counting”), the whole setup is too dry for the non-purist in me and is screaming for condiments beyond mustard (which helped a titch but certainly not sufficiently) and at least 3 additional toppings. The pastrami itself is flavorful but utterly failed by the dry rye. If I had to do it all over again, I’d get a Half Sandwich (+Club Bread + Reuben Dressing + American Cheese + Sauerkraut) / Soup (Matzo Ball) combo. Maybe 🤔

In tuna and ham & cheese.