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| The Redmond's Bar and Grill Menu cover. |
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| The bar with big screens above. Our friendly bartender Charlie was good and reportedly heading back to Hawaii. Good luck, Charlie!!! |
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| Behind the stranger's head in the bottom left of the frame you will see "Christmas Lights", which is actually a stage where musical talent can play. Pretty cool. I guess the building that this restaurant is in is 108 years old!!! |
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| The French Prime Dip: French roll, smoked (NICE TOUCH) onions, seared (NICE TOUCH) Prime Rib and Swiss served with au jus and fries or salad. $13. I went with the salad. |
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| Here's the dip and you can see part of the salad. Medium rare Prime Rib, and you can see that the greens are nice and dry. |
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| Another view of the sandwich. Sorry, my other pictures of the plate didn't turn out. |
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| I was a real fan of this pen, BTW. I honestly thought about either stealing it or asking the owners if I could have it. Here they are on Amazon for your enjoyment.
The Review of the French dip sandwich and such:
Au jus amount: 5. Very large. They gave me a bowl of it. Great (see Adam's bowl at Gere-a-Deli for comparison's sake.
Bread color: Whitish
Bread texture: 4. Absorbent
Overall sandwich size: 4. Big
Bread toasting: 4. Well-toasted
Salad comments: Nice looking with very cute--extremely thin--sliced carrots
Salad dressing: Bleu cheese that was really garlicky, great and flavorful.
Salad greens: Very great. Dry greens. Gourmet greens.
Other salad toppings: Cukes and HALF-GRAPES!!
Au jus temp: 2.5. Additional jus was not steaming.
Bread/bun size: Wide
Meat done-ness: 5. Medium rare with visible pink. I prefer to see some pink on my Prime Rib...
Sandwich characteristics: Soft, good, not greasy
Bread characteristics: Really good
Au jus characteristics: "Oilyish" but good, authentic jus
Salad description: 4.5. Sweet good, half-Grapes on salad, nice, dry, fresh, hearty, and CHEWY (which I think is something you want!!!) greens...lots of red (which I think of as nice and fancy/gourmet) greens.
Other sides: A nice Kosher-style pickle spear that was good. I think this is a good addition to every French dip meal is a nice pickle. As if the sandwich and jus weren't salty enough, right?!! But I think because it is cool and crisp, it is very refreshing...as is the salad and that's why I typically choose it instead of fries, BTW.
Skewer type: Fancy toothpicks
Other comments: Smoked onions are a nice addition, had to order hot jus, which they brought out rapidly. Jus can be TOO hot, BTW... I burnt my tongue/mouth but it was better hot, so I was grateful.
Cheese comments: Mild but good Swiss
Overall sandwich comments: 4.5. GREAT flavor, the smokiness is a real winner. Overall it's really good with big, soft, absorbent but not too soft bread. The side-salad also really made this meal with its garlicky, creamy bleu cheese dressing, good greens, and cukes. There were no "crunchies" (like croutons or sunflower seeds) on the salad but they were not needed with such good lettuce and cukes and thin carrots shreds. Oh! and there was just a little bit of feta cheese on top of the salad which made it really good. More salt but hey! Hotter initial jus may have made this a five. Additionally it is not exactly a "fancy" French dip like that at The Keg but it's real good and the smoked onions really make it interesting and unique.
Overall: 4.5. Great experience, pretty crowded in there. Friendly owner Tim and bartender Charlie. Patrons seemed happy to be there and there was good ambiance. It was crowded on a Wednesday night and my date and I had fun.
Editor's note about the score. After later reflection, this sandwich really is as good as the dip at Canyon's restaurant that got a 5, maybe better. We are in the process of recalibrating our scoring system. |
