Last week I had the benefit of a couple days off to manage a few personal affairs. Being able to take time to do what I want, I was able to also continue on my sandwich quest across Brisbane. This time I found myself at Dijon, a fairly low key cafe in Tarragindi.
It was fairly busy for a weekday, and I found a seat inside.
As expected, the menu was very heavily sandwich and toastie focussed. The coffee menu was fairly standard too but they had a couple of interesting matcha options that I might come back and try at a later date.
My coffee came out fairly quickly. I was surprised that it came in a paper cup even though I had ordered it in a mug to have here. Nevertheless, it was done quite well, I particularly like the real dark chocolate on top. The milk was well frothed and creamy and the coffee was strong enough.
I ordered the fried chicken sando with a side of hash brown. When my order came down, I had noted the missing hash brown on the side and asked for it. By the time I looked more closely at my sando and realised the hash brown had been wrapped inside, it was too late to cancel the hash brown order.
As a result of a commitment I have at the end of the year, I am trying fairly hard to watch my weight, and therefore was not interested in eating a hash brown in my sando as well as one on the side. At that point, staff did kindly offer to remake my sandwich, since I had ordered a hash brown on the side. I didn't want to be a pain so I said only if it wasn't too much trouble, to which he said it was easy. Little did I expect the photo on the left to come out within a couple minutes.
Evidently, the hash brown had merely been picked out of my sando, leaving a massive gap and dislodging a considerable amount of the salad. I do not believe that any reasonable understanding of the word "re-make" would involve having parts of it dug out and served back to me as is. If I had known that would have been it, I would have just eaten the sando with the hash brown in it. Anyway food wise, the hash brown on the side was fine, crispy out of the fryer. The sando itself also tasted fine and was a lot more well balanced than what I had at Sarni, the bread was much more dense and a shared focus of the meal. The schnitzel was firm with a light crumb and I enjoyed it.
What I didn't enjoy though, was ordering 3 items and all of them had one issue or another, and being re-served my sando in this manner. Not sure whether they were having a bad day, but that quality of service was definitely not great.
Price Range: $20 - $30pp
Taste: 8/10
Value: 7/10
Service: 3/10
Environment: 8/10
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