I heard the chef speak at an event this week where he said that he serves his food on dishes like our grandmother's had. With that and the way he talked about preparing food, I knew this place would be special.
After scoping out the menu online, my husband and I went today. I was surprised to see much more on the printed menu we were handed at the counter than I'd seen online, which made it really hard to choose! I went with the tuna melt with succotash and my husband had the crab sandwich with chips. We ordered a side of potato salad too. Oh, and a salted chocolate chip pecan cookie, but I'll get to that later.
Before the food even came out (which was so quick by the way) I could smell the brioche bun of the crab sandwich being toasted...not much smells better in my opinion. The restaurant is open and clean and we could see chef at work which was fun! My husband let me have a bite of his crab sandwich and it was simple, in the best way. Plenty of sweet crab, lightly seasoned and dressed, lettuce and tomato.
My tuna melt had a little more going on...I'd forgotten the tuna was smoked and it almost tasted like bacon, so obviously, delicious and was perfect with the tarragon mayo, swiss, lettuce, and cucumbers that were lightly pickled. The buttery toasted sourdough was incredible! Sandwich was large enough that I took half home.
The potato salad was nice with briney capers and mayo. I've only ever made succotash as a warm side dish, but how smart to serve it as a cold salad and include again, LIGHTLY pickled okra so you could really taste it, the corn, black eyed peas, lima beans, and fresh heirloom tomatos. So good!
Ok, I'd heard about Sermon's oatmeal cream pies, that I believe are made by his wife (not Little Debbie), but those weren't available today. However, they had a salted chocolate chip and pecan cookies that may be the best cookie I've ever had. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but I've found a lot of "homemade" baked goods from bakeries tend to either taste old, chemically, or like they use cheap ingredients. Not here. You can see the high quality, "fancy" chocolate chips, and get a little crunch from the sea salt and toasted pecans. We bought one for our neighbor and it was tough to part with it!
Overall we had a great experience here. The staff was kind and you can tell that the chef loves providing quality food for us to enjoy, and we really did. Go let him make you a sandwich! read more