“Feddy cheesesteak”

Our hotel is right around the corner from Kramer’s Bookstore and Cafe, which came recommended to us by a friend, so we decided to check it out for dinner after our jaunt to the American history museum. Sadly, my dinner did not live up to expectations. This is their cheesesteak sandwich, done Philly-style with cheese sauce instead of melted cheese, and slathered with a cherry pepper relish that really didn’t sit well with me. The relish was both too vinegary and too spicy for me, and it made the sandwich hard to enjoy. I ate maybe a third of the sandwich. It also didn’t help that the roll had split on the bottom, and was very full, so the filling fell out of it and had to be eaten with a fork. All in all a bust, as far as I was concerned. At least Bridget enjoyed her sandwich, although hers also had the same pepper relish and she said there were a couple of bites that were a bit too much.

When something like this happens, I try to be sanguine about it. It’s not the fault of the server or the kitchen, it’s just not what I had hoped the dish to be. I ate enough of it that I didn’t leave hungry, and we didn’t make a fuss for the server, we just paid the chcek. Afterward, we walks across to the CVS and bought ice cream bars to soothe our assaulted taste buds.