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Bread Winners - The Review


Go ahead and say it. I know you want to. “Bread Winners?” Tell me you’ve been there for lunch. Tell me that you didn’t even know they were open for dinner. Ask me if it’s all just sandwiches. “Seriously, Bread Winners?”

Yes…Bread Winners, and here’s why:

Appetizers:
Lots of good variety on the ap list (Hummus Trio, Chipotle BBQ Pork Sliders, Tuscan Fondue), but my favorite has got to be the Spicy Bleu Cheese Potato Chips. Homemade potato chips baked up with mounds of Bleu Cheese and sprinkled with sriracha at $9. They even bring out sriracha-laden ketchup for your dipping pleasure. Dude…come on. I don’t have to tell you this is a must get. If you’re an artichoke dip ($9) kinda person theirs is good, but then again every restaurant in the world serves spinach artichoke dip. Seriously, how much longer before you can super size your #13 McChoke Sandwich meal? The only thing that separates the BW artichoke dip from everyone else’s is that it comes with homemade lavash, which is very tasty just by it self…or used to scrap up the extra baked-on bleu cheese when you run out of potato chips.

Entrées:
We’ve tasted a lot of the menu now in our couple of trips and most of it was spot on. I’m a big fan of the Turkey Sweet Potato Meatloaf with a great savory roasted tomato demi ($15). It’s a nice upscale twist on a home-style fav that works extremely well. The sweet potato in the meatloaf and the roasted tomato in the demi work brilliantly to give you everything you need to keep you from reaching for the ketchup. The meal calls for a side of mashed potatoes, something that BW has 5 different varieties of, but I’ve always subbed in the Green Chile Mac & Cheese. I could go on for days about how good this Mac & Cheese is, but I’ll just leave it at “just order it.” It is the best Mac & Cheese in town…hands down.

The Beef Tenderloin with a portabella mushroom demi and 3 cheese augratin is killer, with loads of juicy good flavor that that only gets better as you move through the meal. The Pork chops with blackberry demi ($19) was another nice use of a classic dish done up with a unique sauce. The only complaint I’ve heard was that the Nut Crusted Tilapia and Jumbo Prawns was inedible due to its overwhelming fishy flavor. Ehh…they cant all be winners. On the bright-side though, the waiter recognized that the fish wasn’t being eaten with the fervor of the roasted garlic and goat cheese mashed potatoes, and asked what could be done to correct the problem. A new entrée was brought out immediately and apologies were given.

Desserts:
This place doubles as a killer bakery, so no surprise every dessert here is insanely good. Only problem is that by dinner, a lot of the more popular cakes and pies are already gone. The pie/cake list is big, so we tend to order at least 3 different ones to suit the entire table’s tastes. I can never remember what we got last time, but you could close your eyes and pick something and still come out happy.

Overall:
We stumbled across BW as a dinner spot, and we really like it. The vibe at dinner is upscale, yet laid back. It’s got all the great qualities of upscale dining I like: attentive and knowledgeable wait staff, savory food, menu with something different - and none of the pretentious bullshit I don’t: ridiculously loud, douche-bag filled bar, and big prices for small plates.

Dinner at Bread Winners isn’t the kind of place you’re going to spend a small fortune and walk out saying it was the best meal of your life. It’s the kind of place you will walk out saying you’re pleasantly surprised with, you thoroughly enjoyed, and a place that you could see yourself eating at more often.