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| - Everything about this place is off-putting. It seems like a cafe but the space is so huge and underutilized that it loses any sense of homeyness.
There are way too many people working--I believe I counted as many employees as patrons. Their display windows are poorly laid out the actual products in them are sparse and not very appetizing. But the worst part is the actual food.
After Panier Rouge packed up and left (apparently without paying any of their bills), I've been left with a weekly hankering for the hot sandwiches that they had. Not wanting to venture down to the Black Camel (which is fantastic, btw), I decided to give this audacious space a chance as I'd seen that their board outside said they have hot sandwiches.
I got attended to very quickly and was pointed to the very back of the very long display windows when asked for hot sandwiches. There were two types of "sandwiches" with no signs to let anyone know what they are. Let me say here that these are not sandwiches. They are just single slabs of day-old bread with ingredients splattered on top. These are also not hot--well, they may have been at some point, but certainly not when they're being sold. The girl helping me guessed which one was which. One was a shrimp-saffron affair and the other was some kind of chicken concoction.
Another lady rang them up ($29 and change) and asked the girl serving me if the salads are coming, to which the girl replies "no". The cashier asks if I don't want the salads. Only at this point does the girl bother to let me know there is a salad with these so-called sandwiches. Already being too deep into this, I decide to get my $30 worth by agreeing to the salads that I was entitled to.
So, I heated them up and started eating them. One bite into the shrimp-saffron sandwich and I almost vomited. No sign of saffron, but I could taste a lot of different flavors all competing with each other to mask the disgusting taste of rotten shrimp, but failing miserably. The chicken one tasted like the kind of terrible prepared frozen-dinner lean-cuisine garbage people buy in the frozen aisle and peel half way and nuke--rubbery chicken, waaay too much cream, and not really very much else.
The salad was good, but really, how can you mess a salad up?
So, after spending $30 on two pieces of stale bread topped with awful tasting sub-par ingredients, I ended up having to make food anyways. Both sandwiches went into the refuse one bite in.
PATHETIC! If you're going to boldly announce that you're selling hot sandwiches, do it right! I don't know how the actual bakery is, but I will not find out as I am disgusted with this place.
TL;DR - ugly space, incompetent service, terrible sandwiches, extremely and unjustifiably overpriced
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