SW1 Kitchen

Its a bit pathetic I'm so excited over being the first person to add this restaurant to Urbanspoon AND blog about it. At first, I was a little confused as it wasn't appearing on Urbanspoon no matter how many different ways I inserted the title, then I decided to do a google search and lo and behold, it has a website, there's a Foursquare deal for it, a post on the Weekend Edition and reviews on Yelp! So I added it to Urbanspoon :)

Yay!

I noticed it a while back whenever I walked into West End from the Brisbane CBD, its in that little space near IGA, French Twist and Era. It seems to be a busy little business lunch area, so either it was quite good, cheap and fast or it was just convenient  but then again, being in the city makes for tough competition and good lunch deals. There was always a large queue of business people there and I was always wanting to see what they had.

There's also a juice bar!

The front display has food not on their menu

One day, early in the morning I decided to drop buy and buy something. I picked the Reuben pocket, which they seem well known for but doesn't feature on their menu at all. Oh here are their menus, stolen/linked from the website. Lunch menu. Breakfast menu.

Reuben sandwiches are an American classic, corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Russian or Thousand Island dressing, sandwiched on rye bread and grilled until gooey. Wikipedia says they are delicious and it won national sandwich contests and junk.

Deceptively small

Whatever it is, it is delicious and stinky. I'm not sure what it is about it, Swiss cheese doesn't smell, the dressings don't smell, corned beef doesn't smell and sauerkraut does smell pickley, but the combination of the flavours makes a powerful stench. Then you eat it, and all is right with the world. I'm not sure how it could go wrong, melted cheese, salty beef, sour pickled cabbage and crisp, crunchy bread with a sweet sauce. Oh god, I need to eat one right now, but that would mean I'd have to go put on some clothes and go shopping. Tomorrow perhaps.

Never open a toasted sandwich, it'll ruin your appetite

My Boyfriend and I were sharing it. Then I may have bumped him as he was drinking some milk. He got milk all down his shirt, and then I convinced him to go home and get changed. I stayed behind with the sandwich. You can actually see the stain on his shirt in that previous picture :)

SW1 Kitchen
Atmosphere: 5. Public hole in the wall. I liked what I could see inside though, very, very well organised kitchen with bustling, quiet staff and labels on everything
Service: 8, polite, efficient and respectful. He was very quick and walked out to give us the pita after it was finished toasting. He also made me a fresh pita rather than grab the display one :)
Food: 7, it was a pretty good pita, I hope to go there again before this goes online, if not, 7 is good.




Also, my long time computer of four years, the first thing I bought with my adult job paycheck besides dinner for my family, has broken. I got it for $300 off EBay, used already and estimated almost, 10 years old when I got it. One evening, I was listening to songs on Pandora and playing Path of Exile with my boyfriend on Skype and it froze. I reset and it started making this distressing loud continuous beeping noise, then I turned it off and took off the case. My GPU popped out, it was terrible and I couldn't put it back. So I'm slowly saving up for a new PC, tax time cannot come sooner ;;