Not simply ham and cheese on rye, or roast beef on a kaiser roll, though Firehouse makes those, too, along with most of the other standards.
Main courses include black sea bass with a crust of soy and rye, perfectly roasted and served over potatoes mashed with chives, and monkfish served in a flavorful ragout of artichokes, butternut squash and bacon.
It is a triple-decker sandwich built on Pullman rye: turkey and roast beef and dry coleslaw, with Russian dressing and Swiss cheese, cut into artful squares.
To follow there is a sandwich of crisp chicken skin and the thinnest of roasted rye bread with between them salty, oily lumpfish roe.
The second arrived in a flower pot, filled with malted, roasted rye crumbs and holding shoots of raw wild vegetables, a tiny poached mousse of snail nestling in a flower, and a flatbread "branch" that was spiced with powdered oak shoots, birch, and juniper.
At Ramen-San in Chicago, the team found a way to infuse duck fat into Rittenhouse Rye by steeping roasted duck skins in the rye for 72 hours.
2 30 P.M. - Finally to a hotel room in Richmond for a shower, then a quick lunch of roast beef on rye, potato salad, green salad, two chocolate-chip cookies and a Pepsi-Cola.
The door to that office allows in not only people, of course, but also, as it did yesterday, catered deli lunches: ham and swiss on rye, turkey on white, and roast beef on both, with cole slaw, potato salad, soda and mints, in case people got into one another's face while speaking.
"My first year at Oklahoma, I played linebacker and end on the freshman squad for Bud Wilkinson," recalled the 6-foot-3 specialist, munching on a roast beef on rye.
But a few minutes later she poked her head around the counter to the side of the kitchen where some of her cooks were stirring pan roasts and slicing rye points.
