That looks good. Never had hot chicken sandwich just hot roast beef and hot turkey.Here's a picture of a gravy packet made by a local chain of chicken restos, so you can make make a hot chicken sandwich at home that tastes like resto food. In most restos around here (Quebec), if you order "hot chicken", you will get something that looks like this. The peas could be on the side. Does this seem more like a sandwich?
Personally, I like to shred the chicken more and serve it open faced. The chicken soaks up more gravy that way.
Ha...it is still a very odd description of a sandwich....where does it stop, e.g. placing a bit of bread under a banana split = a banana sandwich?
Here's a picture of a gravy packet made by a local chain of chicken restos, so you can make make a hot chicken sandwich at home that tastes like resto food. In most restos around here (Quebec), if you order "hot chicken", you will get something that looks like this. The peas could be on the side. Does this seem more like a sandwich?
Here in Italy you get sandwiches - panini - in the caffè bars, at the motorway bars, at the airports, and all over Italy now there are 'paninoteche', sandwich shops popping up everywhere in the big cities, the tourist resorts and in the mountain resorts (The North-West boundaries of Italy are all Alpine routes and resorts). Toasted ham and cheese is a big favourite, salami and salad, mozzarella and tomato, Parma ham and salad, cheese and salad porchetta (scrumptious roast suckling pig flavoured with rosemary and garlic, hot straight from the spit, tuna and salad. These are served in Italian flatbread as sandwiches, crusty rolls and piadina, a type of bread similar to Mexican bread for wraps. Sandwiches are ever increasing in popularity and are the only kind of street food you're likely to get here, unless it's things like donuts, cannoli and other types of street food sold at the many travelling fairs that go around Italy during the great winter festivals, especially Carnevale.
Hope that's informative enough!
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There is a local Cleveland sandwich shop chain that started as one small storefront in 1986 in the Cleveland Flats, back when it was mostly factories and rough-and-tumble bars. Now both "Paninis Bar & Grill" (forgive their use of that "s" at the end) and The Flats have gone upscale and expanded. Still a good place to go for a great sandwich.
IMO, they are a cut above some of the places we ate at on our bus tour. Did you get to Stresa? It was one of the places we chose to be on our own for dinner. Found a small place and the food was just incredible!
You are absolutely right!
). Since we were driving on our own, we had the luxury of exploring, and we found a couple of great places, one in old Florence called Cafe Bigalo where we ate a couple of times, but our best find was Osteria Bottega di Lornano in the small village of Lornano, about 4 miles outside of Siena (and about the same distance from the agritourismo where we were staying). Not only great food but a great overall experience with the friendliest people. The second time we ate there, we were family. We were the only tourists that we saw there - all the rest of the people seemed to be local or semi local - even the waiters spoke only a little more English than we did Italian, which is almost none. I'd have stayed in Tuscany a couple more days just to eat there at least one more time if we hadn't already had reservations up the west coast in Porto Venera.
