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| - This place is quite cute. Historic farmhouse building turned into cafe. Nothing fancy, but has a decent variety of menu options; something for everyone. It's one heck of a nice deli.
My friends and I have only had sandwiches. They are good sandwiches, but nothing wow's me. Portion size is small to medium - no footlong sizes here. The chefs take their time and really seem to like what they are doing, but the sandwiches just seem to miss on the details. For instance, I ordered the Maui Chicken sandwich. Awesome! I thought. I wanted the Cuban Club, BUT I don't want the pork. The Maui is all that WITH chicken. While the sandwich was piled high with moist, real PULLED chicken (in a red seasoning), it wasn't really that flavorful. The Asian "slaw" was barely one millimeter in depth, I couldn't determine what made it Asian, I couldn't find any red onions, the Angora-BBQ sauce was there but not tangy/mesquite/BBQ-y; and lastly, the red seasoning on the chicken might be perceived as a "buffalo-style" but I really couldn't feel any "heat" from it, so I still don't know what that seasoning was. The only thing that helped for flavor was the bacon (extra charge), but even that was on the blander side: no "smoke". As a whole, the sandwich needed a flavor profile: something with more slaw (quantity), more vinegar (in the slaw) and/or tang (from BBQ), bacon with flavor, and definitely more onions!
Even at the bland side, I still liked this sandwich. It's not horrible; it's good, BUT it could be SO MUCH better. 3.5/5
My friends got the Tuna cheddar sandwich and the Asian turkey wrap. The tuna should just be flipped into a melt/panini (esp in winter) and the Asian wrap looked as described. The friends thought the sandwiches were "good." But I did not witness any excitement.
Coffee - you either like Angora coffee or you don't.
Latte - great! I asked for Soy milk and they had it. As you can see, I have the bar set kinda low. No fancy images in the froth = 4/5.
Overall, I WILL eat here again, the coffee is bitter, the latte is good, the pulled chicken really is PULLED, great beer selection, and it's a charming old farmhouse with great insulation. I just need to keep trying the different sandwiches and hope the chefs add a little more pizzaz to them like they do the coffee.
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