David’s favorite sandwich? Cordon Bleu.
After reading Bryann Becker’s column in the Sunday Gargoyle Leader about E-Rae’s I was curious, because her food review reminded me of a Doug Chapman column (Chapman used to write the reviews years ago, but I think was fired because of his sarcasm in the reviews). So I got a group of friends together and we thought we would try the food last night. Trust me, we didn’t have high expectations, Club David is a bar, we were expecting bar food, which it was not, the service on the other hand . . . well let’s just say the bartenders at the Top Hat are more attentive. But we will get into that later.
We sat on the patio (apparently the only part of the club that is open during the week) which is fine. I used to frequent the patio a few summers ago when they first built it and had two-fers. It was a beautiful night, and I’m not even being sarcastic, so it was a perfect dining place.
We asked if food was available and the server said yes and handed us menus. We decided to start with an appetizer and ordered the nachos. We got the quesadilla instead. Being a server myself, I was concerned that maybe the food was supposed to go to another table, and when I asked our server insisted that it was ours, and we told him we ordered the nachos. He was going to fix it, but we thought, fuck it, we will eat it anyway, because it looked good. It was fantastic. The tortilla was more like a flatbread and really crispy and toasted. It was served with garden fresh jalapenos, sour cream, romaine and salsa (that I’m guessing was homemade).
For our dinner we all ordered something different, I ordered the Cordon Bleu sandwich (because like a dumb schmuck I order this sandwich everywhere I go thinking somebody will get it right – and nobody ever does). E-Rae got it right. It was on panni bread and the secret condiment seemed to me was cream cheese, but I could be wrong. I don’t usually finish pub fare, but this sandwich rocked. I ate it all.
One of my other companions tried the spinach wrap, and she liked it. But the funny part of was when my third friend tried to order, three of his first choices “were not available” which we all laughed about. He got the bacon cheeseburger and said it was great.
Trust me, E-Rae needs to work out some kinks, like availability and order accuracy. But for pub fare, it is pretty damn good.