New sandwich spot in the Mid-Wilshire disctrict in Los Angeles!!!
When you’re in the public eye, pulling off something legitimately surprising is difficult.
ink.sack’s a hole-in-the-wall gourmet sandwich stand lined w/ graffiti’d blackboards and not much else, opening today from Top Chef winner Michael Voltaggio, who managed to pull off a somehow under-the-radar build-out despite obsessive scrutiny from media, food blogs, and Val Kilmer’s stomach. Sandwiches are all under $6 (the easily attainable goal is to eat a couple, though to clarify, Val Kilmer, that does NOT mean two people that’re married), and are served on specially sourced soft-white rolls packed w/ high-end ingredients like spicy tuna salad w/ miso-cured albacore, wild rice & Sriracha mayo; maple pepper turkey w/ Camembert, mustarda & arugula; and the chicken liver mousse/ curried chicken skin/ lettuce/ tomato “CLT”. Mo’ options include a molecular-gastronomy’d cold fried chicken sandwich; a serrano ham/ chorizo/ lomo/ Manchego “Jose Andres” (aka “The Spanish Godfather”); and a beef tongue reuben w/ Appenzeller cheese, kraut, and Russian dressing, so you know that one’s going to be extra Juicy…Couture…on the butt of its sweatpants.
If you also partake in liquids/snacks, they’ve got upscale sodas (ginger beer, kiss of lemon, etc.), housemade chips, and pineapple and watermelon “street fruit”. In a couple of months, Voltaggio plans to open a finer-dining restaurant up the street, which’s not nearly as much of a surprise since it’s much larger, giving you plenty of room to jump, swing, crawl, or mountain climbbbbb!!!