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| - I can't believe that I have been driving right past this place for over a year and I never tried it. I visited yesterday for lunch on a whim and was seriously impressed. The atmosphere is pretty dive-y, but the food is delicious! They also have a really awesome selection of beer on tap. Be warned, the Blue Dust slogan is "no crap on tap" and they aren't kidding. Don't expect to find any Budweiser, Miller, Coors, or Yuengling on tap here. They did have Guinness on tap, and you can take that for what it is. Draft prices are pretty reasonable (around $6), especially compared to other places on the Waterfront with decent beer (Burgatory, Rock Bottom).
I started with one of the soups of the day, curry crab bisque, and was blown away. It was spicy and flavorful with some decent crab. I ordered a bowl and the portion was really generous--bigger than the bowls in my own kitchen. My boyfriend got the grilled chicken appetizer with barbeque sauce and was impressed with the quality of the chicken and sauce.
For my lunch I got the 3 cheese sandwich, which comes with fresh basil and tomato. I asked if they could add onion and they did so for free. It was very good, but not great. I guess it's hard to blow people away with a cheese sandwich, so no worries. My boyfriend got the pulled pork sandwich ("porkzila") and loved it. He said he intends to go back and order the same thing. A friend was also impressed with his hot italian sandwich, which looked to have a generous portion of meat and cheese. Sandwiches come with either chips and salsa or cole slaw (the vinegar kind, not the mayo kind). The salsa is a basic pico, but I really liked it. I didn't try the cole slaw.
I liked this place a lot and will definitely go back to try some of their other options. Reasonably priced beer on tap is enough of a draw by itself.
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