alt Hacker NewsVery cool product, but I have to ask, out of personal interest:
What did the bracket in the slack channel determine was “Chicago’s best sandwich”? Or the top three, even? I’m always looking for new sandwiches.
Off the top of my head, I might nominate,
- the pork tenderloin at JT’s
- the Big L from Fontano’s (hot take, I know; it might go to Graziano’s if they hinge-cut the bread, but not doing so is a fatal flaw to me)
- the Cambodian fried chicken sandwich that’s occasionally available at Hermosa
- honorable mention: the comically oversized chicken torta at Migos
(Edit: I inexcusably transposed Bari and Fontano’s; the nomination is intended for Fontano’s)
It's too early to say. We started the bracket back in 2020 with a nomination Google Sheet, and then the pandemic happened, and then I kept saying I'd throw a web app together for us to actually do a seeded bracket with; 5 years later, some of the restaurants have changed, so we're re-doing nominations, and we'll have bracket voting rounds starting probably in February. I owe it all to Sprites!
Nhu Lan's Banh Mi #1 and JPG's Muffaletta are the top 2 current noms, but I think the Tempesta B. Franklin is a sleeper, and the Phodega Viet Dip has a cheering section and I haven't tried it yet. The joy of doing an actual bracket is that it'll involve people doing field trips to have their first Mr. D's Pork Shish-Ka-Bob sandwich, or the Alpine Combo.
It's a 16 sandwich tournament and we're at like 26 nominations right now so it'll be interesting to see what happens.