Judgementastic girls are back in action! Reunited straight from the airport, we headed to Il Cane Rosso in the Ferry Building to try #14 Warm Egg Salad sandwich. After waiting out a significant line and asking ourselves why many people still aren’t ready when they reach the register after waiting in such a long line we sat down to enjoy our lunch selections.
THE JUDGEMENT:
Tahamonster: I love the idea of this sandwich, but the execution just didn’t cut the mustard. I also couldn’t discern the anchovy garlic butter, and while the aged provolone cheese blob was delish (an incredibly under used cheese IMHO) it didn’t mesh well with the rest of the sandwich during the eating because it congealed rather swiftly. On the upside, the sandwich was a great value coming with two substantial open-faced eggy pieces.
Sketchel: Meh. This sandwich looked great but it was ultimately overshadowed by a salad which is a sad story. It was not easy to eat as the egg salad spilled over the sides of the extra crunchy bread. Even with the melted cheese on top it just didn’t have enough flavor to hold my interest – the anchovy garlic butter was undetectable and I felt it was under-salted. I’ll take another peach salad, please!
The Full Experience: What’s all this about a peach salad, you say? Well, we tried both salads on offer and were positively blown away by one. The baby spinach salad with Hamada Farm peaches, mint, feta, and meyer lemon vinaigrette was to DIE FOR! It totally eclipsed everything we had at Il Cane Rosso – the sweetness of the peaches offset the saltiness of the feta divinely, the mint incorporated perfectly and the vinaigrette moistened the salad just enough. Overwhelmingly delish – so much so that this is the best photo we could capture of the stunning salad.
The other salad was a Chue Farm Romaine lettuce with Rancho Gordo quinoa, summer squash, pickled red onions, cilantro, and 
tomatillo vinaigrette. Not sure what, but there was something a little spicy in this salad, which was also tasty but didn’t hold a candle to its menu-mate. We also tried the strawberry basil soda, which had great flavor but could have been more bubbly. We found the service at Il Cane Rosso to be particularly pleasant and efficient. We asked for a recommendation for the salad and when stumped the cashier made the brilliant suggestion to try a half order of both and though the line was super long we didn’t wait long for our fare which was awesome.
Would it make our Top 100 List? This is our first Judgementastic Switcharoo -the Warm Egg Salad doesn’t make the cut, but that peach salad most certainly does. Craveable salad for sure! Perhaps the salads at Il Cane Rosso are too fickle (change too often) to add to the official Big Eat, but we’re too enamored to care. We loved it and enjoyed our lunch experience so we’ll be back to try other offerings from the Ferry Building’s red pooch.
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