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| - First off, let me just say I LOVE a place that still puts a Monte Cristo sandwich on the menu, even if I did make a New Year's resolution about fried foods. I like old school friendly coffee shops and this has that charm. Sadly, that's where it ended for us.
My Monte Cristo (did you think I wouldn't order it?), while tasty inside, was overdone and dark brown, not golden, just this side of burnt. It wasn't very big, nor loaded with meat, which is weird for a Monte Cristo since the whole idea of a triple layer ham, swiss and turkey sandwich dipped in french toast batter, fried and coated in powdered sugar is to be colossal and leave you stuffed. The bread was standard grocery store loaf size. It was offered with potatoes or hash browns, but I ordered fruit, which was melon and not very good. End of story for me.
Hub had the House Original sandwich; roast beef and cream cheese with red onion , tomato and lettuce. He asked for no tomato, and also sadly ordered fruit.
The sandwich was a shocker, with no more than a 1/4 lb of meat and cream cheese spread thin. It also had tomato on it...oops. The beef was not freshly sliced. The bread was again nothing special, average size and not extremely fresh. For a signature sandwich, it was a big disappointment to my better half. We were both still hungry when we left.
The service was very nice, quick, and pleasant, though I don't particularly like being called 'dear' by someone maybe 10 to 15 years younger than me. I'm not a blue hair!
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