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| - Porchetta and Co is a small little sandwich shop (when I say small, I mean standing-room-only small) that serves exactly what you think it does: porchetta. And that's pronounced "porketta". The recipe for this traditional Italian pork roast at Porchetta and Co starts off with a 24 hour marinated pork shoulder. It's wrap it in prosciutto, then again wrap in cured pork belly, and roasted until crispy on the outside. This masterpiece is finally carved to be placed on sour dough buns. Sound amazing? Well it kind of is.
Porchetta Grilled Cheese ($6.45) - with crackling,, caramelized onion jam : It was actually ridiculous how good this Porchetta Grilled Cheese was. We cut it up into quarters for sharing purposes, but each small little square was jam packed with cheese. The outside is grilled so crunchy that I had to do a double take to ensure it wasn't actually fried. And while I usually don't order grilled cheese since it's something I can so easily make at home, this one was able to blow me away with the onion jam gave. It gave it an interest flavour and extra oomph. Very very good.
Porchetta Sandwich ($6.45) with Truffle Sauce ($0.75): Taking my first bite into the Porchetta Sandwich made me realize how much the meat resembled Chinese roasted pork. The skin isn't as crispy, but the meat is definitely more tender and succulent. The truffle sauce is an add on, and to be honest I couldn't specifically isolate the flavour of it, and don't know if it really added all that much to the sandwich. I think next time I'll try it with some other things they have on the menu, like mushrooms (+$0.75), rapnini (+$0.75) or mozzarella cheese (+$0.95).
On Saturdays, they have a soft shell crab special that is out of this world. MUST TRY.
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