This is not a love letter. This is fact. Cold. Pitiless. Unequivocal.
(Still, happy Valentine’s Day all the same.)
But after last week’s breathless coverage of Publican Quality Meats’ debut, you’re craving a more objective look at the place—especially since, as of yesterday, it’s serving a full menu of items you don’t have to cook yourself. Read this with your favorite meat lover.
6: Number of sandwiches on the board.
1: Number that involves lamb meatballs on lobster roll bread from Franks ‘N’ Dawgs.
30: Total seats available.
2: Number available at 1:17pm.
15: Number available at 2pm.
1:45pm: Time your new lunch hour begins.
16: Circumference in inches of tuna muffuletta sandwich on homemade focaccia.
12: Number of sandwiches one muffuletta makes.
100%: Certainty a muffuletta will figure into your next hangover cure.
2: Beers on tap, including Jaipur IPA.
2: Number of Pok Pok Som drinking vinegars being sampled.
100%: Certainty you’ll prefer the IPA.
$22: Cost of the Butcher’s Meal for two: blood sausage, braised beef, chorizo, et al.
1: Number of sparkling wines available.
100: Fold increase in the likelihood that you spend a romantic afternoon in a butcher shop.
$29.99: The going rate per pound of steelhead trout caviar. Just FYI...
(Still, happy Valentine’s Day all the same.)
But after last week’s breathless coverage of Publican Quality Meats’ debut, you’re craving a more objective look at the place—especially since, as of yesterday, it’s serving a full menu of items you don’t have to cook yourself. Read this with your favorite meat lover.
6: Number of sandwiches on the board.
1: Number that involves lamb meatballs on lobster roll bread from Franks ‘N’ Dawgs.
30: Total seats available.
2: Number available at 1:17pm.
15: Number available at 2pm.
1:45pm: Time your new lunch hour begins.
16: Circumference in inches of tuna muffuletta sandwich on homemade focaccia.
12: Number of sandwiches one muffuletta makes.
100%: Certainty a muffuletta will figure into your next hangover cure.
2: Beers on tap, including Jaipur IPA.
2: Number of Pok Pok Som drinking vinegars being sampled.
100%: Certainty you’ll prefer the IPA.
$22: Cost of the Butcher’s Meal for two: blood sausage, braised beef, chorizo, et al.
1: Number of sparkling wines available.
100: Fold increase in the likelihood that you spend a romantic afternoon in a butcher shop.
$29.99: The going rate per pound of steelhead trout caviar. Just FYI...