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Sausage bread love

The simple things are the most complicated. Yes, it's a phrase. But mixing a martini cocktail or preparing an omelette is unfortunately a fine art that requires either years of practice or immense talent to master, ideally both. Because these simple things only allow for one state: perfection. The slightest mistake degrades the classic cocktail, the quick egg dish, sushi, goulash, pasta and similar candidates to a debacle. Many wise alcoholics have philosophized about the martini, the omelette is taught in French cooking academies. So there are schools of thought. Not with sandwiches. Anyone can put anything in a loaf of bread and call it a sandwich. Anarchy. Chaos. Prologue over. Darrin McCowan comes from Chicago, where he worked very hard from the age of 14 in very simple restaurants that primarily served sandwiches and hot dogs. When his wife got a job in Düsseldorf, the McCowan family moved to Germany and finally to Vienna. There, Darrin took over a kebab hut in the Servitenviertel district last September and decided to finally get his sandwich and hot dog business in order: he bakes the fluffy rolls himself, pickles the pickled gherkins himself and has the special sausage - a slightly thicker, shorter beef frankfurter - made at the Landl butcher's in Ottakring. "If anyone can do it, it's you," Darrin McCowan encouraged the Viennese butcher in the face of the awe-inspiring task. For the "Chicago Dog", the smoked sausage is then grilled on the hot plate, but under a bell, into which a little ice is put, which also cooks and steams it at the same time, as far as I understand, making the sausage downright fluffy. Delicious. And do you get smeared from top to bottom when you eat it? Yes, even for the most classic of classic sandwiches, the BLT - Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato - the bread is baked in-house (not with the crust removed and not in a triangular shape, that's a point deduction ...) and then the only important rule is followed. Namely, put plenty of everything in it (€ 7.40). It's hard to write these lines without having one of these hot dogs or sandwiches to hand. The menu changes daily, there are plenty of great beers in the fridge (Zillertal Pils, Bernard Celebration, etc.) and thanks to the completely inadequate ventilation, you can still smell your visit in your clothes for a long time. Summary: It has been tried, but all attempts at Viennese hot dogs soon came to an end. The complaining has come to an end, now there are hot dogs and sandwiches just like in Chicago.

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