Bakeman's

122 Cherry St., Seattle, WA - (206) 622-3375

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Posted By Michael Stern on March 30, 2007 10:21 PM

Choices at Bakeman’s are limited to sandwiches plus a couple of soups each day (turkey noodle, beef vegetable, a nice chili, or, on one memorable occasion, Chinese eggflower – an egg drop varient made with cucumbers and mushrooms). There are Waldorf or potato salads and such, but they aren't very interesting. And although dessert can be wonderful – chocolate or lemon poppy seed cake, sliced like bread, good carrot cake or cookies – it isn’t sweets that have lured customers to this semi-subterranean blue-collar cafeteria for so many years. Sandwiches are the siren song. Bakeman’s makes more than 500 sandwiches every day for lunch. (Monday through Friday only)

Turkey or meat loaf on white or whole wheat: this is sandwich perfection. The bread is homemade, stacked up at one end of the cafeteria line. It isn't spectacular bread on its own, not like some elegant French baguette. It is bread for sandwiches: tender and simple slices that come to life when spread with mayo and/or mustard and/or cranberry and/or shredded lettuce, then heaped with turkey or slabs of meat loaf.

If meat loaf is your dish, we recommend it on whole wheat with catsup and shredded lettuce. The meat is tightly-packed but tender, gently spiced, and with a dizzyingly delicious aroma. As for turkey, get it any way you like; because this is superb, REAL, carved-from-the-bird turkey with subtle homey flavor. The dark meat is lush; the white meat is moist and aromatic; either variety has an occasional piece of skin still attached, a nice reminder of just how real it is. The way we like it is, in the words of the countermen who hustle things along at breakneck pace, "white on white; M & M," which means white meat turkey on white bread with mustard and mayonnaise. You can also get it dressed with shredded lettuce and an order of cranberry relish. Turkey sandwiches get no better than this!

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