I am a Sandwich Box virgin no more! Thank you Carolyn B. for deflowering my SB virginity. It was lots of fun to meet up with you on Richmond Street and indulge in one of the best sandwich spots I've been to in a long, long time. I'm a girl who loves my sandwiches (Reggies, the Stockyards, Caplansky's) but there is definitely room in my sandwich loving life for the Sandwich Box.
So, it's pretty simple. You pick a bread/bun. You pick a condiment. You pick a meat. You pick a cheese. You pick another filling. They slap it together, whack it on the panini griller and off you go. The sandwich gets plopped into a eco-friendly paper box with a small green leafy salad beside it.
The good is that the SB uses both Fred's Breads and Ace. So the base of what they start with has quality, good flavour and substance. They offer interesting combos with lots of choices of spreads so you could probably eat a sandwich here every day for the next year and never have the same thing twice. I opted for a onion foccacia with a mustard spread, prosciutto, brie cheese and caramelized onions (I'm having a big onion moment here!). It was really great.
The downside was that the side salad wasn't really dressed enough so it was a bit dry and using only mesclun greens it was slightly bitter.
The other downside is that the lineups/cash register get confusing. One place for soup. One place for sandwiches. One place for salads. I must say though I was totally impressed with the salad bar. Lots and lots of choices, all very fresh and all very spotlessly clean.
I'll definitely be back!
The real upside of this lunch was finally getting a chance to meet my fellow Yelptress, the lovely Carolyn B. T'was a pleasure my dear. :)