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Black Camel
The Black Camel has been slinging sublime sandwiches since it opened in 2004 and their approach is as smart as it is simple.
Starting with five basic sandwich choices, they allow you to personalize your meal by choosing from a range of high-quality in house prepared sauces and toppings.
Options include slow roasted beef brisket, pulled pork shoulder, seared steak, roasted pulled chicken and roma tomato, red pepper, arugula and eggplant. Prices start at $7.00 (with one sauce). There are also plenty of sauces and condiments and extra toppings available for less tha a buck.
So popular are these sandwiches that Black Camel uses their Twitter to let people know when they've sold out which, on most days, is before their scheduled closing time. .
Also on the menu is a Black Camel chili ($3.25 for 6 oz., $5.25 for 12.0z) and a variety of multi-roast blend coffee and loose-leaf tea selections from the nearby House of Tea.
For breakfast, there's an eggspresso sandwich served until 11 am. Eggs are cooked a little different than usual (they use an espresso machine steam wand) and paired with either pancetta ham, steak or house-cured salmon, sweet pepper and red onion mayo).
After lining up for around 5 minutes we order lunch. First is the slow roasted beef brisket with the signature Black Camel BBQ sauce and a slathering of chipotle mayo and creamy horseradish.
The huge and heavy sandwich is loaded with super tender beef brisket (slow-cooked for 12 hours) that is browned with molasses and caramelized onion and pungent with the flavour of the BBQ sauce and the mild zing of creamy horseradish. It's amazing and incredibly filling.
We also decide to try the roasted pulled chicken with roasted sweet red pepper. It's moist and equally tasty although lighter than the imposing beef brisket sandwich. Both sandwiches come with generous helpings of meat and sauce and it takes a monumental effort to keep everything together in that large bun.
Seating is extremely limited and it can gets pretty crowded inside so it's best to try and get seating outside or find a shady spot on any of the nearby park benches.
Monday - Friday: 7am - 8pm
Saturday - Sunday: 11am - 8pm
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Absolutely the best sandwich I've ever had in my life, and I've had many different kinds.
For any meat lover, the beef brisket with mushrooms and charamoula mayo doesn't get any better.
A gift from the gods!!!!
The food isn't bad, but the quality of service at Black Camel definitely needs to step up. Not sure if I'll be back at this place again.
Did Gadjo update a previous review? I don't understand why there are comments from 2006 and a post dated June 12, 2010. I've noticed this in other reviews but never bothered to ask why. Can you clarify?
Tim, as a reader it's awful confusing to link comments from a previous post with a new one. In fact, I think it's bad practice. If you're posting a new review, why would you not start fresh with the comments and simply link to previous reviews in the new post? If you're going to do away with a 4-year old review, why not either do away with the comments as well or keep them separate from the new review?
And I think it's not that there was an old review, just that there was a restaurant LISTING before. Not a review. Listings are just a photo and website for the place etc, no actual description. And people write some good comments on listings, so they're useful to have! I think sometimes people even request a full review on places that have listings, and then they do get reviewed! So chill out, dude. Go have a sandwich...
As a side, Phoebe's complaint about dropping BBQ sauce on her shirt and causing herself embarrassment because of her bathroom usage is...pretty funny. Why would you blame a restaurant for your mistake of not using a plate?
Step up your game Black Camel, or lower your prices, that's the only way I'd spend another $10 on meat and bun.
The Sandwich did not have much flavor - just a pile of stringy meat. When I was nearly finished it occurred to me that I didn't taste any onions and could not see any. I don't know if they forgot to put the onions on the sandwich or is so little onions that they are not noticeable?
The basic Sandwich is pricey enough without charging extra for toppings that should be free.
The only thing exceptional about the Sandwich was the soft and fresh bun. With a slow cooker and a cheap cut of meat I could make a far tastier sandwich for much less.