Now there is a way to get this sweet bread delivered to your door.
In farmer's bruschetta, roasted red pepper, young goat cheese, fresh basil and candied walnuts harmonized beautifully, but the bread, delivered in four large slabs, was totally unwieldy.
It took almost my entire meal to get bread delivered to my table, but in the meantime, many delicious dishes arrived.
Meals here start with a salad with Laico's secret-recipe dressing, which must be sopped up with the dense Italian bread delivered by the famous Dom's Bakery in Hoboken (which also supplies Piccolo's).
At the Waysider, which has a mostly white clientele, customers can dine on fried chicken, green beans, black-eyed peas and corn bread, delivered to the table in small plastic bowls and washed down with sweet tea.
The first six months on the job were a tongue-biting, teeth-clenching, note-taking marathon, wherein the owner incessantly jotted down topics to be discussed at the next day's meeting: inaccurate descriptions of ingredients, wrong reasons given for not serving salmon, bread delivered without butter, soup without spoons, debates about reservations at the bar.
The uptown stalwart Domilise's Po-Boys, in business more than 75 years, cranks out textbook roast beef po' boys and fried oyster po' boys, cooking each batch of bivalves to order, and piling all on Leidenheimer bread, delivered twice daily.
The selection of breads, delivered in labeled paper bags, comes with a carousel of three salts and three olive oils, eyedroppers provided for the precision deployment of the olive oil, including one pressed on the premises, according to the waiter.
No detail is overlooked, including the basket of flaky croissants and breads delivered to your door, the iPods, and the hammam massage and fitness center downstairs.
There are also fresh artisan breads delivered daily from Sadie Rose in San Diego plus mustards, honeys, olive oils, vinegars, crackers and gourmet finishing salts including vintage merlot, Spanish rosemary, Thai ginger and black truffle.
