b. titcomb
With Big Jones stepping up its game, and Garden & Gun arriving any day in the mailbox, it seems like Low Country's the new something this year. And we're one hundred percent fine with that. Boils, shrimp and grits, baked oysters, black-eyed peas? Yup. It's enough to make us forget that South Carolina has also given us Strom Thurmond, Myrtle Beach, and modern day racism.
We're getting this thing started tonight at Revolution Brewing's Lowcountry Beer Dinner and Shrimp Boil. (Looks like tix are still available.) The menu for this thing looks silly, especially the boil itself: head-on shrimp, house-made andoullie sausage, red skin potatoes, corn, and house-made hot sauce. We expect to get more head tonight than Wilt Chamberlain at Senor Frogs.
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Andrew N (2 years ago)
That’s no mere “sesame style torta bun.” That’s a seeded egg-bread roll that started showing up in Puebla, Mexico after a wave of Lebanese immigrants arrived. The family has them made special for the restaurant and they are a crucial part of the cemita experience.
d (2 years ago)
Gotdamnit, Lebanese-Mexican fusion? Cemita sandwich offically on my radar.
b. titcomb (2 years ago)
Thanks for the World History lesson Andrew. I got an “D+” in that shit.
Andrew N (2 years ago)
@d
The arabe \”varietal\” of the cemita (as well as the tacos arabes and tacos orientales) also feature that tasty fusion—when you\’re up at the counter ordering, look to the left side of the grill where you can see the arabe meat. It\’s spit-roasted with onions Gyro-style!
I\’m horribly embarrassed to suggest looking towards Guy Fieri for *anything*, but he did Cemitas Puebla justice when he stopped by:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYeeUUpPkks
Also, this place in BYOB. All in all, it rules mightily.
D-Nice (2 years ago)
I dream about this sandwich. Guy Fieri put this place on blast, and it’s good enough to make me think about bleaching my hair, wearing my sunglasses backwards, and using douch-y terms like “this is off the hook.” Ok, not really. But I luvs it. I also dig the owner’s pop doing magic tricks for the kids in the store. Peep the pickled jars of peppers and you’ll be thinking “here comes the brand new flava…”
hector (8 months ago)
you are eating the worst of the worst, the best cemitas in mexico are in the little “mercado de el carmen” like 6 blocks away from townsquare, (el zocalo…) how do i know? cause i live in puebla, so don’t let tourist guides takes you where they wan’t, better try your own way when you come to puebla!