the quest for the perfect vegetable wrap, parts II – III
the deducted:
- Subway
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Part II: Titanic Brewery
+ [Titanic] is this cheeky little brewery and restaurant on the edge of campus. They sometimes serve lovely seasonal ales on tap that likewise sometimes get me in troubles of sorts. Back in April, they celebrated an anniversary, complete with specials, one of which included a beer and veggie wrap and some other lovely provision or two. This was my order. It was delicious and that was actually one of the nicest dinners I had ever had the privilege of participating in.
Months later, after a fairly trying day, the thought of a veggie wrap and beer was highly appealing. I was too late: They had changed the menu and the vegetable wrap no longer existed. After an awkward second or two standing around wondering whether or not to pull a Subway and stay regardless, I decided the beers on tap that month weren’t tantalizing enough and probably forgot all about eating after that.
Part III: Whole Foods
+ The exact night of the Titanic failure that I realized I had a lifeboat after all: my friend Jenny, a bona fide vegetarian. Surely she would know a place with good vegetable wraps.
Alas – from having lived on campus for her entire college career so far, she did not know of any one specific place where the wraps were lovely beyond belief. But she did suggest a few places to try. The first was Whole Foods, which I kicked myself for not having thought of, given that I frequent the store for groceries. The second was a Publix (a grocery chain in mostly the Southern United States), but she warned against the one closest to school.
Within a few days, upon inspection, somewhat shockingly, most of the Whole Foods wraps contained meat, unless it was the $8 sliced up caprese wrap that, as delicious as it probably would have been, was not what I had in mind. There were no custom made wraps, though in hindsight, maybe I should have asked the guy behind the deli panel – but I had a sneaking suspicion with Whole Food’s reputation the way it is that this wrap would have probably run me up much higher than a wrap needed to be. I would save that for true desperation. Perhaps this visit was simply at the wrong time of day.
As it is a grocery store, I wondered if maybe I had made this elusive wrap myself once upon some day. After picking up the appropriate materials, dinner was settled with a spinach and feta croissant, some tea, and Nick Hornby.
November 16 2009 12:50 pm | food and travels