Clubbing Sandwich-Style at the Boston Tea Party

Now I couldn't recommend the Boston Tea Party enough, they're a really great little chain of Bristol based coffee shops. Cosy, friendly. They do good, strong coffee and a multitude of snacks as well as a good brunch/lunch menu. If a friend was to ask where to take a date in the day-time, I might say, 'hey, how about the Boston Tea Party? It's a casual little place. Get a drink, there's food if you want it... etc.' I would still agree with this, that is of course, unless their date happens to like club sandwiches as much as I do. This was, especially compared to their other food, very dissapointing. The bread was cardboardy, tasteless white toast. There was chicken, bacon and mayo, but only at the center of the sandwich, the remaining square-inchage of bread being filling-less. A crime, such a crime! There was also no salad, but a single slice of solitary, sad beef tomato hung, drawn, quatered and distributed sparsely over the four triangles of this sandwich... Also, it came with crisps. This... I mean... why. Why? Why would a person do this kind of thing to another HUMAN being. Honestly, what the hell is happening to the world? Does no one respect or understand the sanctity of this golden rule? The whole point of a club sandwich is that it's the one sandwich on a menu that is an entire and full meal, it is supposed to go beyond being a sandwich, transcend it's class and create an entire new food goup. Ladies and Gentlemen, a club sandwich, this was not.

I still can't knock the Boston Tea Party as a great place to grab a quick coffee and a bite, but, and it pains me greatly to say it, get the soup.

Also on a side note, the chai latte was so sugery I thought my eyeballs were going to explode through the back of my head. In comparison the hot-chocolate would make an excellent (and delicious) savoury choice.

The (nicest branch) of The Boston Tea Party is located on Park Street in Bristol. The sandwich costs some money, (someone else bought it for me). It gets one extra point because it has a cool name. BUT IT GETS NO ADDITIONAL POINTS FOR CLUB SANDWICHES!