![]() ![]() ![]() You also get a choice of bread for the sandwich: Dutch crunch, French, SF sourdough, and whole wheat. Most sandwiches also come with lettuce and tomato, if you want it, and of course Ike’s famous dirty sauce. The sandwich is made with beer battered onion rings, provolone cheese, steak sauce and thinly sliced ribeye. Other sandwiches are named after famous celebrities or characters, such as the Jessica Rabbit, the Heath Ledger, or the Little Mermaid.įor my sandwich, I ordered what was called the Damon Bruce. In their San Francisco stores, many of the sandwiches are named after famous San Francisco sports stars such as the Matt Cain, the Madison Bumgarner, or the Ronnie Lott. One of the things that Ike’s Place is known for are sandwiches with unique and unusual names. It didn’t really taste like cinnamon toast, or cinnamon anything, I’m actually not sure what it tasted like, other than it didn’t taste like anything good. I gave it a bit of a sip, and sure enough, the taste of the drink wasn’t very appealing at all. And in the end, my husband agreed as he only drink about a quarter of the bottle before he couldn’t stand it any more. Sure, it’s might be a fine cereal, but cinnamon in my soda, or any drink for that matter, doesn’t seem like it would taste appealing. Personally, I didn’t think that sounded that great as a drink. To go with our sandwiches, my husband wanted to try one of Ike’s Place’s own branded soda’s, the cinnamon toast soda. So we took our brown bag of sandwiches and headed over to the nearby Mission Dolores Park with its fantastic views out towards San Francisco and the Bay. There are no tables or indoor or outdoor seating here. This is the type of place where you come in, place your order, your sandwiches are made fresh and bagged up for you, and you’re sent on your way to enjoy your meal. However, by the time we left the store with our order in hand, there were at least 3-5 other parties in the store ordering and waiting for their food. We were lucky that the day we arrived to Ike’s Place in the Mission District, it was still early, and therefore there was no line. With bread that’s baked to order, including their famous “Ike’s Dirty Secret Sauce” that is baked into every loaf as well as spread onto every loaf after it comes out of the toaster, Ike’s wide variety of sandwiches, customizable the way you want it, have become legendary. Today, the sandwich shop has grown so popular that there are 11 total stores in the Bay Area, one in Los Angeles and 2 more in Arizona. Named after the owner, Ike Shehadeh, Ike’s Place opened its doors in the Bay Area in 2007 on Halloween Day. Ike’s Place is the name of the sandwich shop. As soon as she mentioned sandwich shop, I knew I’d be able to convince my husband to give it a try because all we were looking for was a nice casual place for lunch – nothing fancy or outrageous as we were already going to have enough of that during the rest of our trip in San Francisco. She mentioned that she’d actually eaten there and really enjoyed the sandwiches, but warned me that they were rather large, and that was part of their appeal for most people. She talked about how this place was really well known, so much so that there is often a line out the door and down the block to get your hands on a sandwich. Sure enough, I talked about the fact that I wanted to make a stop at Bi-Rite Creamery on this trip to San Francisco as it had been on my list of places to try for a while, when she mentioned the name of a popular sandwich shop in the same neighborhood that she thought I might be interested in. Seeing as she had recently graduated from UC Berkeley, just across the Bay, I figured she might have some familiarity with the city that I didn’t have. I had casually mentioned to a co-worker of mine that I would be up in San Francisco for a few days and that I was looking for some good places to eat while I was in town. ![]() But when a rather affordable opportunity presented itself to hit up the City by the Bay for a few days of R&R right before the beginning of a very busy stretch at work for my husband, we decided to take it. We hadn’t planned on going anywhere for New Year’s, especially since we had long planned to go to Portland over Christmas. The trip that my husband and I took to San Francisco over New Year’s kind of came about at the last minute. ![]()
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