I love the market. I bleed the market ! I have missed maybe 2 Saturdays in the last year. The Union Street ladies recognize me when I come in for my $1 breads, the cheese guys know me, my banana guy busts my chops. I love get my groceries there but I also love having breakfast there, there is 8 or 9 places making breakfast sandwiches when the market is running but I had never been to Cherry's. No real reason, maybe because they are on the end near the Railroad St entrance? Maybe because I have my favorites at this point. I can't say for sure. Last weekend I was hungry and I decided this was going to be my week to try Cherry's, and I did. I have been trying to mull over my experience since then, thinking about it. Sadly, it was the worst breakfast sandwich I have ever gotten at the market. Even sadder it isn't just like oh it was and 8 but the rest are 9's and 10s. There are some stellar sandwiches but Cherry's fell far far short of stellar. I didn't get sick from it and it didn't taste bad exactly, so there is that I suppose.
I walked up to the counter and I was impressed with the variety of options on the menu. Crepes, French Toast, sandwiches. The prices are pretty fair as well, I think the French Toast runs about $2. The Breakfast sandwich was $3 which is about the base cost of most of the sandwiches at the market. I think they range up to like $3.50 or $4. Giordano Imports offers a $3/$3.50 breakfast bagel with imported spanish goat cheese, an egg and porchetta ham. Union street serves up a monster sandwich for around $3.50. Now as I was hoping Cherry's serves up their breakfast sandwich with the option of Polish Sausage!! It sounded fantastic and I awaited it eagerly. Then I just kind of awaited it. Then I was just waiting. Finally I was annoyed and just wanted my freckin sandwich. 15 minutes isn't forever, but it's way longer then you should be waiting for eggs and meat to cook on a grill. Zimmerman's can you make you a waffle with 2 eggs and bacon in less time than that.
So I sat down and snapped a picture of my sandwich. My very small sandwich. With A hair in it. With a piece of sausage so small that I am not sure you can call it sausage, maybe a Vienna Sausage. Seriously it was maybe 2 inches long and as thin or thinner than your average breakfast sausage link. IMO if you're serving sausage on a sandwich it needs to be butterflied open, even then this thing would have been really freckin' small. As for the hair, it was in three such a way and I was hungry enough to pull it out and keep going, at least I saw it before I bite into it. In regards to the size... It may give Giordano's a run for their money as far as small sandwiches go but the imported ham and goat cheese take Giordano's to a whole other level of deliciousness. I'll take quality or quantity, both have their place, that was not this situation.
Someone sitting at the same picnic table as I had ordered the sausage with onions and it didn't look to bad, but the breakfast sandwich is not something I can recommend. I may give Cherry's another go down the road but the are very far down the totem pole compared to everyone else I have tried, and I have tried everyone else. read more