PDX Sandwich Week 2022 - Day 6

With top billing on today's docket being to address my broken truck window, I bowed out of my 8-10am volunteer shift this morning at Lan Su Chinese Garden, and instead... slept in until a bit after 9am.  Turns out I was a bit hung over from the night before.

I got it together ultimately and ended up lining up a window replacement service appointment for Monday morning.  With that set up for Monday, other tasking of the day was to get my truck somewhere to vacuum out all the broken glass, and grab a Sandwich Week sandwich for lunch.

With the oncoming heat wave this weekend and expected high of 93 today, I wanted to get the heavy activity out of the way before it got too hot.  Ended up landing on that I would go to a nearby Washman Car Wash that has self serve vacuum stations, then once done head across town to Phil's Meat Market and Delicatessen, to get their Croque Philip Sandwich Week special for lunch.

Vacuum duty went accordingly to plan, and before 12:30 I was headed up Burnside to the Alphabet District, where Phil's is right off Burnside just above the 23rd Avenue.

The place was is sort of a higher end strip mall with a small parking lot, and I was able to get a spot right out front.  I realized I had been right in this area at least two other items, as the building behind it has a Quest Diagnostics lab I had bloodwork done at.

Once inside Phil's, I was greeted by the cashier immediately to the left.  She ended up taking my sandwich order, and also upsold me on adding fries and a drink for $5 more.

The wait was maybe 5 minutes tops, and I was headed out the door with my Croque Philip, fries, side of bbq sauce (my choice out of the like 6 options), and Sanpellegrino Limonata canned beverage.

Soon enough I was home with 1/3rd of fries left (I ate ~2/3rds on the drive back), sandwich and empty can of Sanpellegrino (I was hungry + thirsty).

So, per Sandwich Week, the following are the details on the Croque Philip:

What's on it?: Obscenely decadent, béchamel-broiled pain de mie, delicately distinct black forest ham that’s cold-smoked with juniper and coriander, cave-aged Gruyère cheese, both complex and dimensional, golden-roasted sweet-fleshed apricots festively freshened with Jacobsen’s cracked pink peppercorns, Durant olive oil, and a schmeer of Chef Kimi’s apricot jam elevate this French snack into a “Complex Croque” of edible bliss!

The Inspiration: Pronounced “krowk muh·syur” our “Craft Croque” is an oozing molten body of food beauty bursting with a trifecta of tantalizing tastes. The most heavenly eating experience during Sandwich Week! 

My Croque was definitely decadent, and filling.  Salty, too.  I ended up taking a nap shortly after sandwich consumption, and woke up parched.

But I enjoyed the apricots with the ham, although there was much less apricot on my sandwich than how the sandwich was photographed.  The gruyere cheese melted on top of the top bread slice was tasty too.  Didn't taste any cave on that cave-aged cheese, thankfully.  I am not too into mixing savory and sweet and this walked the line a bit for me, but I'd recommend it if one was in the mood for this type of sandwich.

 

 

I'd return to try other sandwiches on their menu, and also their meat skewers (featured in their bento box menu) that my friend had mentioned yesterday for what was notable about the place.  But true to what she noted, there's really not much of any seating at the place, so it would be another pick-up order for a future visit.