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| - The pastrami reuben is bad.
I always come here with a desire for sour beer and good food, but the pastrami reuben is bad.
They brew a lot of good beers, and I really enjoy their wild sour series. My friend said he felt like a kid eating warheads. But their beer selection isn't just sours - they offer some really smooth and really strong beers, but I don't know enough beer words to do them justice. The pastrami reuben is bad.
I love the chorizo stuffed dates appetizer, and their pretzel and asparagus aren't bad either. The pastrami reuben is bad.
Their burgers are really greasy and fatteningly delicious. The Dijon chicken is so tender and comes with just the right amount of Dijon. They have a "pound of chocolate cake" which my friends love, but I personally think their carrot cake is the one to die for. The pastrami reuben is bad.
The food is pretty pricey for urbana-champaign, but not bad for a downtown restaurant. But no price could ever convince me to order the pastrami reuben again.
The pastrami reuben looked like a great sandwich. It had a bunch of pastrami and fancy looking bread. But that's exactly the problem - they tried so hard to make it fancy that it tasted like a misguided dessert. The bread was studded with so many blueberries that all I could taste was fruit. The sauerkraut was mashed together and fried. Fancy, but that took out all the sour flavor and left a dry, crunchy patty. The bread was way too big and thick and dry. My mouth was a desert, constantly bombarded by lip ripping, roof of mouth scraping chunks of tough blueberry bread. What little meat flavor that made it to my tongue was instantly washed out by all the water I had to drink. There was also no horseradish. Or if there was, I could neither see nor taste it.
A pastrami reuben should be about the meat. It should be tasty and juicy and slathered with horseradish and stuffed with sauerkraut. Yet at destihl, I got a fried blueberry pastry. What a disappointment.
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