Highly recommended:
Bebo Calzone @ Bebo Trattoria.
Pork shoulder, broccoli rabe, tomato, garlic and provolone. The crust is wonderful and the filling is delight of firm and soft textures--toothsome but not a chore to chew. Very hearty and gone all too soon.
Not recommended:
BBQ chicken sandwich @ Au Bon Pain.
Studying for grad-school finals has driven me to this. I walked all of a hundred feet to get a cheap sandwich and ended up with this dead thing. It's a panini-style flattened sandwich filled with chicken chunks, "cheese", cheap oversweet bbq sauce, flavorless onions (now that's a trick), and asparagus stems (not the whole spear mind you, just the lower stem).
Like most chain food-shops, the offerings sit under hot-lamp life support, but this thing was probably a goner from the beginning. The bread is dry as a crouton on the edges and soggy-soft as bread pudding in the middle. The sauce... well, I imagine you could get shot in Texas for serving something like this. The chicken may as well be tofu. The onions are just flavorless forms in the stew. The asparagus stems provide a bit of crunch but nothing else. The "cheese" is probably only allowed to be called cheese because of legal pressures by petrochemical lobbying associations.
Yeah I ate it. I'm not proud.
But I'm not so cruel or stupid as to recommend it to anyone.
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