I Can Eat 50 Eggs: The Noble Pig

In honor of Paul Newman and “Cool Hand Luke,” I’ll review 50 days of eggs from 50 different restaurants.
Day 47: Noble Pig (now called Noble Sandwich Co.)
Hours: 7am-3pm Mon-Thu. 7am-5pm Fri-Sun.
By Mike Sutter | Fed Man Walking | 02.16.12

Or you can just let Bates and Martinez build it for you. The Noble Pig BLT ($7) is among the city’s best sandwiches, with roasted tomato and bacon in slabs larger than life. Even a humble egg-salad sandwich ($7) gets the full-brass treatment, with three full deviled eggs cut in half and distributed in unstable hillocks on that same wheat bread. The eggs, in fact, overwhelm the loose weave of the bread, cut too thin to carry the load. Given the eggs’ hilly backsides, it’s already an unstable construction, but this time it fell apart like a trick sandwich from a novelty shop. Napkins, lots of napkins.
Besides the eggs, the build-out is simple. Just a few ribs of Romaine, lacy thin red onions and mayo. That’s enough, because the eggs cradle a bedeviled and be-curried yolk that counts for a full sandwich-building line of flavor and complexity. It comes with a house-pickled mix of sweet cucumbers, carrots, celery garlic and onions and a handful of potato chips from a bag, a good deal for $7. Good luck maintaining that thrifty resolve at the charcuterie counter next door.
(Photos by Mike Sutter © Fed Man Walking)
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