Baguette Box dishes out a supreme sandwich
Published: Mar 5, 2009
True to the restaurant's name, every one of Baguette Box's deliciously inspired sandwiches starts off with a freshly baked baguette. The bread is something to write home about -- hard and crusty to the touch, but light and chewy once you get your teeth into it.
But a split baguette roll does not a sandwich make, and it's in the space between those slices that Baguette Box earns its good name.
Its warm sandwich menu includes such masterpieces as the "La Espanola," with grilled Basque chorizo, stone-ground aioli and carmelized onions; the white wine-marinated roasted pork loin with apricot aioli baguette, a real rib-sticker; and the "Strawberry Mountain" lemongrass steak bagette, which contains no strawberries but does bring together organic beef, hoison sauce, pickled daikon, carrots and cilantro in sweet harmony.
The cold menu is smaller, but no less ambitious. The house-cured wild salmon gravlax baguette impresses, and the drunken chicken and tuna nicoise salads prove that Baguette Box doesn't need its signature roll to rock your tastebuds.
Add an order of truffle fries and a sugarcane cola to your sandwich order and you've got a lunch that will keep you satisfied well into the breakfast the next day. And the price is right - not one of their good-sized sandwiches costs more than $7.50. Two people could possibly share one sandwich, but once you smell what the kitchen of Baguette Box is up to, you'll want one all to yourself.
- by Geoff Carter, Seattle Reporter for HelloMetro
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