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| - Sky Blue Sky is a sandwich shop, or is it a restaurant, or is it a cafe? See, I'm a bit confused because my experience there could have been oh so many things, well, everything except encouraging.
On the recommendation of yelp, weeklies and hipster friends alike, my boyfriend and I decided to enjoy some Wilco-sandwich loving on a rainy afternoon. What better than a restaurant called Sky Blue Sky on a day that is all grey?
Well, first things first. If you're going to have a sandwich shop where people pay up front for food, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the food would be served within maybe a 10-15 minute window at most.
If instead you decide to be a restaurant, it might be prudent to reflect on the customer service aspect of a restaurant and mention to customers that the sandwich they ordered would take over half an hour to make due to a backlog of sandwiches.
If in these situations you do neither, and I sit there for over 15 minutes with my order not called, have to ask the staff member (still ringing up new orders and NOT informing any customers of the delay or even the customers still waiting) when mine is expected, and then having them forget also the soup I ordered which took about 20 seconds to ladle from a pot, you should probably rethink the organization of the establishment.
All in all I waited over 30 minutes for my sandwich, 15 for the soup when I realized that they weren't going to get it for me and that I was in here for the long haul.
And yet, this all might have been rectified if the sandwich was any good. But unfortunately, the bread (which IS fantastic) completely overwhelms the One Wing sandwich. I had no idea the 'Thinly sliced oven roasted turkey' was really just bland deli meat, while the cream cheese on the bread was barely a whiff and the stuffing pretty much nonexistent. If I wanted the bread alone I would have bought a loaf, but the sandwich was really disappointing. The 'We're Just Friends' was also extremely bland, the panini was flavourless, and again, the smoked chicken was really just bland deli meat with a tiny hint of roasted red peppers. No seasoning, nothing.
The carrot soup was delicious, thank goodness so I didn't feel like I wasted an entire trip, but definitely not good enough to return to.
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