NY Times<\/a> article rated ballpark eats from coast to coast. Kinder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s was the supposed winner for Oakland. Wrong, NY Times, wrong.<\/p>\nThe \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ball tip\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sandwich was sliced sirloin, lettuce and tomato wrapped up in a hoagie roll with BBQ sauce. The price and size were fine as far as ballpark food goes (under ten bucks, can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t complain too much). Even the fact that it was cold<\/em> did little to deter me from trying to enjoy it. I tried, but by the end of the sandwich I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel as if I had eaten a thing. Mind you, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not commenting on the size, rather this was a rare food occasion where it was neither bad nor good. Except for my expanding waistline it was as if I had never eaten it. <\/em> The sandwich was so incredibly ho-hum that it might not ever had existed. An absolutely useless meal; not so bad that I could feel bad for eating it, nor was it nourishing in any way.<\/p>\nWith such a non-sandwich having confused my palate, I knew that I needed to quickly reacquaint my senses to what a beef sandwich could be. Good or bad, it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just as long as it was there.<\/em> With that in mind I knew there was no way I was going to be disappointed about any torta.<\/p>\nWith the Day of the Torta finally upon me, I headed straight to Taqueria Castillo and ordered myself up a carne asada. Upon unwrapping it, I was immediately rewarded. The smell was sensational with a sort of smoky, toasty feel. The bread was soft and messy in that forgivable way. Pieces of the sandwich fell off, out and into the chips that came with. The carne asada itself was great and the inclusion of lettuce and tomato chased away any lingering Kinder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (non) memories. But the real kicker was that the bread had been grilled with the cheese<\/em> in direct contact with the flat top. This preparation thoroughly melted the cheese and gave the torta a real presence<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe torta turned out to be exactly what I had been looking for; made with thoughtfulness in an assertive way. Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve stayed away from other Northern California tortas, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re usually prepared in this manner, but now at least I know there are some good one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out there. In the end, I suppose any messy and delicious sandwich would have been too difficult to eat at a baseball game anyways; it would have cost twice as much and I would have dropped half of it onto the floor. Maybe Kinder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s did get it half-right after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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