That is the Italian Hero from South Lyndale Market in the Kenny neighborhood (making this our first Kenny entry).
Today was a toss-up between the mortadella with pistachio pesto and some other stuff on focaccia or this. Since I'd recently had a really good mortadella on focaccia from North Star and a reliable mortadella hero from Mario's and I had bologna at home (mortadella's the same fucking thing except it has polka dots, just be honest), I decided to switch things up.
This was listed on their menu as:
Mortadella, Capocollo, Soppressata & Prosciutto come together with, olive tapenade, fresh mozzarella, semi-sundried tomatoes in oil, shredded lettuce, pickled red onions, topped with a house made vinaigrette. On sesame hoagie bread
OK, bear with me.
I think this might be the worst Italian sub I've ever had.
I'm not trying to be mean or anything but, jeeze, Louise, that tapenade. Look, I know tapenade is meant to be salty but aren't there degrees of saltiness? You get a hot sauce, there's degrees of spice. You can get mild or hot giardiniera. Sweet or hot Italian sausage. Can you not get a less-salty tapenade? And you can see how much of it there was, Jesus Christine! That's a lot of fucking tapenade! I was tasting this thing an hour and a half later. I think I still am.
This tapenade overpowered everything. I couldn't taste the tomatoes, I couldn't judge the quality of the mozzarella, the vinaigrette disappeared behind the pickled onions, and the meat was kind of just there for mouthfeel.
The bread was good, I'll say that.
Also, since the economy is what it is right now, this sandwich was twenty even after tip, so if I want to go back to investigate the mortadella-pesto-focaccia thing to give them a positive review, that's going to be a ways in the future. Money's tight at Sandwich Bully HQ lately.
I've had Italians with giardiniera, I've had them with cherry pepper relish, I've had them with nduja, I've had them where they had a wad of banana pepper rings and some Italian dressing carelessly sloshed on, I've had them where it was just lettuce-mayo-tomato. Tapenade sounded like an exciting excursion.
It was not.
I hesitate to talk shit but, just being honest, if I'm ranking this sandwich against all others, it ranks very very low.
I won't recommend against this place, just the sandwich. Unless salty's your thing. Some people like salty things.
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