Best Sandwich In Hartford

want to be Gayle King.

When your best friend is Oprah, who can send you around the country trying Esquire’s Best Sandwiches in America, you could say it’s good to be King.  Because my best friend isn’t in the Forbes 400, I could only complete one leg of the tour.

Bricco in West Hartford, Connecticut, serves exceptional Italian comfort food in a setting that’s rustic, warm and stylish.  Like a Ralph Lauren sweater.

Bricco’s grilled lobster and cheese sandwich ($16) made it into Esquire’s list of 40 finest meals on sliced bread, and it made me weep with happiness.  It’s so good, I dried my tears with $20 bills.

Fresh country white bread is grilled until crispy, fragrant with warm butter.  Then it’s stuffed with sweet claw meat, held together with melted Havarti cheese.  If that’s not enough, it comes with a stack of battered onion rings which are ultra-crunchy and delicious without condiments.

Because this sandwich is for adults, it’s accompanied by chick peas, celery and artichokes tossed in vinaigrette to cut the richness.  Try this easy and decadent recipe at home, courtesy of Bricco’s Chef/Owner Billy Grant:

Billy Grant’s Lobster Grilled Cheese

Also featured in Good Food Magazine, this sandwich is the top and perhaps only reason to visit Hartford.

Restaurant Bricco
78 Lasalle Road
West Hartford, CT 06107
860.233.0220

About the Author

- Mary Kong-DeVito

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Founder/Editor-in-Chief. Mary grew up in New York where the food-centric city and her family's restaurants were literally her playground. Instead of eating dirt, she ate duck blood and rotten eggs. You never know what you'll find on the sidewalks. Mary is a veteran of the spa industry who's worked on celebrities such as Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Williams and Jane Krakowski. Her writing has appeared in DC Magazine, Washington Post Express, Scoutmob and Washington City Paper. She eats "normal" stuff too, like cheeseburgers. Kangaroo cheeseburgers.

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