Supernice’s Bologna sandwich weds mortadella, stracciatella, pistachio and honey on focaccia for among the many metropolis’s best lunch offers with.
When, final month, we launched Sandwich Watch– a column dedicated to the Brisbane sangers you require to study– viewers solutions might be present in thick and shortly over Brisbane Times’ social media websites networks.
And one title confirmed up larger than a few instances:Supernice
Haven’ t turned conscious of it? That’s alright attributable to the truth that we hardly acknowledged of it both. But we had to try these sandwiches, clearly.
Well, it took various sees to type through this small Bowen Hill retailer’s meals choice of focaccias and sourdough toasties, but in the end we concurred that, sure, Supernice makes some wonderful sandwiches indisputably– and there’s one notably that you just positively require to take a look at.
But initially, relating to Supernice
Supernice is the manufacturing of prepare dinner Dalip Singh and his companion, baristaSherman Yeung Hidden away on a backstreet of Bowen Hills, this was fairly a post-pandemic process for the pair.
“I’ve been a chef for nearly 12 years now,” Singh claims. “Before this, I used to be working at Tattersall’s Club within the metropolis … we have been at all times planning to open one thing however then issues acquired scary with the pandemic so we thought, ‘OK, you have to find a balance where it’s not large as a result of issues are getting so arduous’.
“So we decided to do a small cafe focusing on things we like.”
Singh and Yeung did quite a lot of analysis examine, taking a visit to Melbourne, notably, equally as that metropolis’s sandwich pattern was kicking proper into excessive gear.
“We’re doing things we like to eat, so our menu isn’t huge,” Singh claims. “We wanted to keep it simple and make sure everything was good quality.”
Supernice sandwiches are both toasted sourdough or gently toasted focaccia. There’s a Reuben made with wagyu pastrami that’s tremendously most popular, and the Mortadella and Tuna Melt are each implausible (the latter, notably, with its actual utility of dill and chives).
Still, for our money, it’s the Bologna on focaccia that deserves your stomach space.
Supernice’s Bologna sandwich
This is amongst these sangers that merely appears to be like finest proper out of the wrapper.
Singh gently toasts his Danny’s Bread focaccia on the inside as quickly as minimize, after that places in round 90 grams of high-grade mortadella from Salumi Australia, the very same amount of stracciatella from Mansfield’s Casa Motta, and a charitable spray of smashed pistachio, offering the sandwich a captivating pop of color. (“I was thinking of artichoke or something,” Singh claims, “but [Yeung] suggested pistachio would go really well.”) The final contact is a circulate of Bee One Third honey.
It’s a lesson in mouthwatering restriction (which might be remarkably unusual in Brisbane’s current sandwich arms race). The focaccia is left gentle on the outside, stopping any kind of mouth-shredding harm, with a lot of the construction lugged by the issue of the pistachio. The mortadella isn’t fatty or oily but has a average saltiness that’s balanced out by the lactic silkiness of the stracciatella. Singh thinks he cannot find a neighborhood honey significantly better than Bee One Third; it’s a artistic enhancement, as a lot relating to mouthfeel as it’s a average candy style.
“I’ve seen places make focaccia, fill it, wrap it and put it in the fridge. That will never be the same as when it’s freshly done because you can make sure things are the right temperature.”
Supernice co-owner Dalip Singh
According to Singh, it’s all the things about a few easy prime quality energetic elements ready with remedy.
“Danny’s Bread makes such good focaccia, but I’ll drizzle oil on the inside and toast it because you want to bring it back to life,” he claims.
“I’ve seen places make focaccia, fill it, wrap it and put it in the fridge. That will never be the same as when it’s freshly done because you can make sure things are the right temperature as well. The mortadella: you don’t want it hot, you don’t want it cold. The same with the stracciatella.”
Basically, the Bologna is what happens when a certified prepare dinner transforms his hand to one thing as easy as this: a well-conceived, positively tasty sandwich the place the final chunk is as implausible because the very first.
Little marvel Supernice has really begun transferring a rising variety of focaccia on condition that very first presenting it to the meals choice one 12 months earlier.
“I’m really happy with the balance of customers,” Singh claims. “They’re happy to start trying different things as well, which has been great.”
Where to acquire one
Supernice’s Bologna sandwich is $16.50. You can acquire one at 4/37 Mayne Road in Bowen Hills (enhance to find the shopfront on Edgar Street, which is bit larger than a laneway).
It’s open Monday to Friday, 5.30 am to 2pm, and Saturday 7am to 1pm. Beyond sandwiches, it provides matcha, espresso by Coffee Supreme, and beefy newly baked cookies.
This is the present instalment of Sandwich Watch, a column dedicated to the Brisbane sandwiches you require to study.
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Matt Shea is Food and Culture Editor atBrisbane Times He is a earlier editor and editor-at-large at Broadsheet Brisbane, and has really composed for Escape, Qantas Magazine, the Guardian, Jetstar Magazine and SilverKris, amongst a lot of others.