What mattered at the time was that it weighed as heavy as a shotput despite being named after the actor who played Pee Wee, and it used Dutch Crunch bread-loaves that have crusts with the cracked pattern of a parched desert floor.Īnd when I ate the thing, it dripped, crunched, and satisfied me as a sandwich like this should. For the half hour I spent eating it, I kind of forgot about the price or the fact that-if I'm correct on my sandwich taxonomy-it should've been called a "Rachel McAdams" as it contained pastrami instead of corned beef, and coleslaw instead of sauerkraut. Dollars.ĭo you know how many sandwiches $26 buys at Banh Mi Che Cali? A DOZEN (as of this writing), which means you could feed an entire football team and still be left with an extra one for the water boy.īut all of this seemed moot when I bit into my enormous $10 "Paul Reubens" Sandwich at Ike's. The cost of an average sandwich here, at this San Francisco-based sandwich chain that's currently taking over spots that a retreating Capriotti's has abandoned, is $10.Īlso, the Ike's in Newport Beach (and presumably all the other OC locations of Ike's current and forthcoming) will automatically tack on a 50-cent "healthcare surcharge" onto your bill.īut not only that: If you ask for the secret menu, you'll discover that there's a sandwich that tops out at $26. Walking into the new Ike's Love & Sandwiches in Newport Beach, my skepticism was again tested. Will it be worth it? Will it be better than one of BMCC's banh mis that costs half that much? Now, if I see a sandwich that costs more than $5, I'm immediately skeptical. I don't think I'm alone when I say that the prices at Banh Mi Che Cali have spoiled me for life.
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