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No? Explain more? Well, One Nameless Reader who might come across this and demand an explanation, you got it.
I've been to the Crested Duck a couple of times. First time, I played it safe and ordered off their every day menu and went with the insanely affordable Spanish Ham sandwich ($6.50), which came with a tomato confit that you could build a religion around. When I woke up from the Deliciousness Coma which that first taste dropped me into, I vowed to go back and grow a set.
For my second go round, I went straight off the weekly specials menu. Drink that in for a minute. This is charcuterie. These meats are handmade, and the Owner (one of the nicest young business owners you're ever go to run into) wakes up ever week and say, "it's time to blow some minds." Sure, I'll try the Andouille with peppers and mustard. I don't know many Cajuns, but if I did, (A) they would like they were on Swamp People and that would make me happy, (B) they would like this as much or more than the stuff they get down in Louisiana. Then we would wrestle alligators together.
And if the Andouille wasn't good enough (which is an insane thought, because it was), my Eating Partner Extraordinaire and I split the Smoked Duck with Fig and Fennel Compote sandwich, cuz if you're completely full and satisfied beyond normal human comprehension, you might as well just say, "F'it" and try to murder yourself with tastiness and die happy. Mission Accomplished. I want the ingredients of that sandwich to be read as my eulogy, and to be buried in the baguette. If you missed this sandwich, congratulations, your life is meaningless.
I didn't have the brass to tangle with Corned Beef tounge quite yet, but how do you even question it after everything else you've eaten there has turned your tastebuds into prissy elitists? Every other sandwich place is dead to me...thanks Kevin.
But don't think this only a sandwich shop! Salads and cheese plates are there for tasting, as well as the ability to buy everything in the meat and cheese case by the ounce. Not to mention they have put on a number of special dinners, for Valentine's Day, Easter, and one most recently to celebrate that most feared animal parts, Offal. All kinds of good things happening here. Don't miss it.
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