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Meatless Mondays: Crossroads Launches Lunch
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Want to dine like a fancy pants celeb but keep things meatless ? You can do just that during your lunch hour now thanks to Crossroads , which just started up their mid-day meal service.
The menu focuses mainly on sandwiches made by Tal Ronnen, who has cooked for the U.S. Senate, Oprah Winfrey, and Ellen DeGeneres . Ronnen is also the creator of Kite Hill, a nut-based vegan cheese company whose dairy substitutes adorn the sammies.
Ronnen and Executive Chef Scot Jones are going for a meatless version of classic European-style sandwiches daily, Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m.
Some of the options include the "Doc Brown" made with green olives, julienned pickled vegetables, basil aioli, and cassucio; "Full Monte"; with tomato jam, fresh basil, and cassucio; "Big Tal Cheese" that includes "butter" Persian cucumber, flake sea salt, and white alder cheese; and "Le Prevot" with cucumber, tomato, vegenaise, olive oil, pepper, and truffle dill cheese. They'll also have a house-made pasta and soup of the day, snacks, and pastries, including a vegan croissant from pastry chef Serafina Magnussen. (Oooh lala!)
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And since you've been good by adhering to Meatless Monday, you can reward yourself with a cocktail from James Beard Award winning bartender Jeremy Lake. Who said Mondays had to be a slog?
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