Homegrown Sandwiches (Fremont)
April 4, 2009 at 4:43 am , by sara
I was expecting Homegrown to be more fitting of the name, more like the flowing haired, hemp-wearing hippies that fill the Fremont parade. Instead it’s scrubbed clean like the chalkboard they wrote the menu on. It has light wood, freshly potted herbs, and young spunky guys behind the counter who jump up to take your order. At the tables blond women sit in clusters, talking about the shoes they just bought.
It’s the new Fremont.
The food, thankfully, is true to the idea of “homegrown”—local, sustainable and really pretty damn good.
There’s been a bit of a scandal surrounding Homegrown since it opened last week. Apparently the Swinery (Gabriel Claycamp’s venture) was providing the meat for the sandwiches. After Gabriel’s other venture (the culinary communion) went belly up it created a bit of a stir. Not to mention that the Swinery never quite jumped through all the hoops with the health board.
Woops.
Word is, they’ve stopped using Swinery meat. The menu still looked fabulous with almost a dozen sandwiches, a few salads, a few soups, and nearly a third vegetarian. I had to ponder for a while, debating between a roasted beet salad, a blackened cod sandwich, and flank steak. In the end I went for the flank steak–I had to taste some of that controversial meat.
It was in a word–fabulous. Sandwiches are a challenge for me. So many restaurants just put a bunch of things together that sound good and never taste the end result.
Someone tasted this sandwich.
The flank steak was perfectly balanced by blue cheese and caramelized onions, with a bit of mesclun for freshness. It would compete with the midnight cuban at Paseo and that is serious praise.
My only critique was that the steak should have been medium rare, not well done…but it was tender despite that.
The soup was wild mushroom, a beautiful flavor with so much depth. Rich without being too creamy, mushroomy without being too woodsy. I did wish the chunks of mushroom were a bit bigger.
That menu is long. I think a few more trips are in order. Meat controversy or no.
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Homegrown Sandwiches
3416 Fremont Ave N
Seattle, WA 98103
www.eathomegrown.com
(206) 453-5232
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by Eagranie
On May 14, 2009 at 5:47 am
LOL at “controversial meat.” I’m a sucker for a great sandwich, mostly because they’re so hard to come by. I’ll have to check this place out.